A. All probationary and permanent employees of the city shall earn their wages based on the salary allocated to their class or position as set forth in the Schedule of Salaries and Related Benefits adopted by resolution of the city council. An hourly rate of pay for all such employees shall be computed by dividing the biweekly salary allocated to the employee’s class or position by eighty hours if no hourly rate of pay is allocated in such schedule for the class or position. Hourly rates shall be computed to three decimal places.

B. A shift rate of pay for probationary and permanent fire department employees who are required to work twenty-four-hour duty shifts shall be computed by dividing the biweekly salary allocated to the employee’s class or position by five and five thousand one hundred and seventy-five ten thousandths (5.5175) shifts if no shift rate of pay is allocated to the class or position in the Schedule of Salaries and Related Benefits as adopted by resolution of the city council. The rate shall be carried to three decimal places and rounded off to yield a full biweekly salary.

C. An hourly rate of pay for fire department positions allocated a shift rate of pay in the Schedule of Salaries and Related Benefits adopted by resolution of the city council, shall be computed by dividing the shift rate of pay by fourteen and four thousand nine hundred and ninety-four ten thousandths (14.4994) hours. Hourly rates shall be computed to three decimal places. (Prior code § 3.18.090)