Though Gloucester County’s budget for the next fiscal year will not be formally adopted until Monday night, supervisors made it clear during a budget work session Tuesday night that they will not increase taxes.

However, without the tax increase, there will be a 1 percent gap remaining in what county administrator Brent Fedors had proposed to fix Gloucester’s compensation problem in how its salaries lag behind other jurisdictions. The 1 percent salary deficit from what was originally proposed will be carried forward into next year’s budget request.

For county employees, the percentage point on salaries equates to about a 9 percent reduction in their planned increase, Fedors said. For school employees, the 1 percentage point in salaries equates to about a 14 percent reduction in their planned increase.

If the budget is adopted without the tax increase, it will still fix 91 percent of county employees’ compensation challenge and 86 percent of the school system&...