City officials will review a Lawrence company’s tax abatement request by the end of the month.

Amarr Garage Doors is seeking a 55 percent tax abatement on a proposed $18.45 million expansion of its factory at East Hills Business Park. In its application filed last week with the city, company officials said the expansion would create 80 jobs, in addition to the 438 already employed in Lawrence.

The application currently is under review by the Policy Research Institute at Kansas University. The institute will calculate the city’s costs and benefits in granting the abatement; that analysis will go to the city’s Public Incentives Review Committee, which will make a formal recommendation to the Lawrence City Commission.

The committee meeting is set for 3 p.m. Oct. 30 at City Hall, officials said.

In a letter filed with the application, Amarr vice president Delbert Phlipot said all jobs created by the abatement would pay more than the “living wage” of $9.53 an hour. The Lawrence City Commission may adopt a living-wage requirement, which had been considered by the commission prior to the Amarr abatement proposal, as soon as tonight.

The application indicates that 76 of the 80 new jobs would pay $22,200 annually; the four remaining jobs would have salaries of $45,000 a year or greater. The living-wage ordinance would require a minimum annual wage of $19,800 for companies seeking city tax abatements.

Phlipot said in the letter that the abatement was needed for the expansion to happen in Lawrence.

“If the abatement is not approved, Amarr could do this project in Butler, Ind., or Whitehouse, N.J.,” Phlipot said.

Commissioners meet at 6:35 tonight at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets, to consider the living-wage requirement.