This year, the highest payout went to Mark Purdy, a Winnipeg Transit operations superintendent, who earned a $292,475 severance package. Former internal services director Luella Lee left the city with $198,590 in compensation, former city solicitor Ursula Goeres received a $174,158 goodbye cheque and [Annitta Stenning] received another $50,000 in 2008, on top of the $343,500 she earned when she left the city in September 2007.
The highest city salaries to non-retiring staff are earned by senior administrators, not politicians. Department heads earned anywhere from $119,000 to $155,000 in 2008, while Mayor [Sam Katz] took home $114,053 and the salary range for city councillors was $60,153 to $75,866. Politicians, however, receive a third of their salaries tax-free.
The top non-retiring w...
Departing officials again top pay-earners . Former deputy police chief Menno Zacharias was o... law, the city is required to disclose all wage and benefit payments paid out to any employee who ...
Many years ago, make that centuries ago, Adam Smith wrote a book, in which he defined, what we now call the "free market" economy as being the best economy for ensuring the maximum wealth of nations and its citizens. In other words, the "free market" would operate according to theory -- the employer in pursuing his/her, both long-term and short-term, self-interests would ensure that his/her workers had sufficient wages to purchase the necessities of life and maybe some left over to buy the incidental extravagance.
...The result is a wage earner with limited capacity to pay for housing without j...