Spencer IA, (Northwest Iowa Now)— During a recent Clay County Board of Supervisors meeting Clay County Sheriff Chris Raveling spoke with the board about raising new jailers pay to $23.00 an hour.

Raveling says that he can’t raise new jailer pay without also raising the current jailers pay.

Raveling says that if the county wants to keep people employed as jailers in the county, they have to match their rates of other surrounding counties.