How Many Nanaimo
Civil Servants In $100K Club??
The above article in the Toronto Star makes you wonder just who the 'servants' are in today's society? How many civil employees in the City of Nanaimo earn $100,000 per year or more?
We know that ex-city manager Jerry Berry earns $250,000 a year to stay home and current City Manager Al Kenning was paid nearly $200,000 for a job they have deemed redundant. How much civil salary, benefits and pensions can the average taxpayer in Nanaimo afford?
According to a Stats Canada report in June 2009 the average weekly wage including overtime of Canadian payroll employees was $820.95 per week which equates to $42,689.00 per year.
During the recent rounds of hand wringing and scouring the city budget trying to get a handle on taxes, none of our elected officials seem to be considering the extremely high percentage of our taxes which go to pay city hall wages. Why is that??
When you ask city staff to look for ways to reduce taxes, how many of them do you think will recommend reducing their own wages, either through staffing cuts or wage freezes and possibly even roll backs?
How much longer the average citizen can keep paying these golden wage and benefit and pension packages to the civil service has been a mystery to me for sometime now.
Perhaps we are nearly to the tipping point, when the old goose finally says 'enough is enough already'. The civil service is going to have to start living on the level of income the rest of us have found necessary, as the present system is totally unsustainable, and anyone who thinks it is, needs to take off those rose colored glasses.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Your comment will appear after moderation before publishing,
Thank you for your comments.Any comment that could be considered slanderous or includes unacceptable language will be removed.
Thank you for participating and making your opinions known.
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.