&gt;From the deal with police officers in 2015: &quot;The one-year pay agreement, tentatively reached earlier in the week, calls for 8 percent raises, plus a 5-percent, one-time &quot;retention&quot; bonus and return incentive for officers who have left the force for other jobs. The current police contract expires at the end of the year.&quot; 13 percent is pretty good for a city that is purportedly suffering from money problems for the last decade.<p>Just about everyone I know in the computer industry did better than that in terms of raises and bonuses last year.    I think the labor market here might just be hot.