County Executive Committee members now want their duties and remuneration clearly spelt.
Addressing the third annual County Executives Conference in Mombasa on Monday, the chairperson, CeC members caucus Anthony Njaramba said county ministers had become "guinea pigs of human resource policies."
He said what CeCs need is to be put under a clear job group.
"Our President, Deputy President, Cabinet Secretaries, County Chief Officers and other officers are in specific job groups with basic salaries and other allowances well outlined," Mr Njaramba said.
"CeCs are devolution implementers. They are most vetted and intelligent lot with most of them having masters degrees. Our only undoing is that we receive consolidated salary which is far below what others including Chief Officers earn."
Njaramba said former Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru had promised to solve the anomaly within three weeks but two years down the line nothing has been done.
"Rules of national justice should be followed. What we need is harmonisation of job groups for CeCs with related allowances instead of consolidated salaries," he said.
The Vice chairperson Council of Governors Salim Mvurya however, told CeCs that the conference had not been organised for them to present their complaints.
Mr Mvurya admitted that human resource management in counties remains a challenge that requires argent address.