caretaker

1: It's only money
2: You can't take it with you

magnumpi

I took some to England on holiday

Novocastrian

I'd actually say it's none of your business.

Novocastrian

Just to emphasise my point about the increasing irrelevance of $100K, this table Ontario Sunshine List - search & analyze shows that the number of earners above this arbitrary threshold has gone from less than 5000 in 1996 to over 115,000 in 2015.

It's just stupid and apart from being being a divisive invasion of privacy, is a fossil remnant of Harris's attack on public sector workers and their unions 20 years ago.

ETA: Playing around with the metrics on that site shows that to get the number on the list back down to around the 5,000 on the 1996 list, you have to increase the 2015 threshold to $200,000.

QED.

Former Lancastrian

True but if you are or were a public servant then your salary would be disclosed publicly so then it becomes everyones business as they can search the various data bases.
When lists like this are published its just more ammunition to complain about public servants and especially nowadays where many are saying these wages and benefits are not sustainable and especially budgets given to police forces.
Severance packages have now almost been eliminated from the Federal Public Service so the new hires won't see those.
Enjoy your retirement.

Novocastrian

Only in Ontario. Which isn't particularly fair is it?

Former Lancastrian

Actually a few Provincial Govts do and we are now starting to see cities post them

Government of Alberta Salary Disclosure
British Columbia 2014 - Salary Disclosure Stats - SunshineListStats.com
http://www.winnipeg.ca/corp/document...disclosure.pdf
Nova Scotia Department of Finance - Public Sector Compensation Disclosure

Novocastrian

Fair enough. I thought only ON was stupid enough.

How about the feds?

magnumpi

Cost Of Living 1996

How Much things cost in 1996
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 2.93% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 6448 Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 8.25% Average Cost of new house $118,200.00 Average Income per year $36,300.00 Average Monthly Rent $554.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.22 US Postage Stamp 32 cents Average cost of new car $16,300.00 Loaf of Bread $1.15 Minimum Hourly Wage Raised To $5.15
Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling
Average House Price 69,453 Gallon of Petrol 2.70 Yearly Inflation Rate UK 2.4% Interest Rates Year End Bank of England 5.94% FTSE 100 Average 3800

Novocastrian

I wasn't aware that most Ontario public sector workers live in the USA.

magnumpi

I know weird ehh, is just rough comparison only

Game boys were just coming popular and walk mans

I wonder if the sunshine list people of 1996 would still be happy with the same wage today? 200,000 is a more realistic number to base the list on, if we really need a list?

Novocastrian

I actually made the same amount in 1996 as I did in 2015.

But I retired on July 1st 2015.

BristolUK

Whoever started the thread should be strung up.

Former Lancastrian

This article was dated 28 Mar 2013
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/cana...220207728.html

On Wednesday, Parliament passed second reading of Bill C-461 — The CBC and
Public Service Disclosure and Transparency Act.

If the Bill is adopted, as is, the salaries and expenses of all federal public service workers who make over $188,000 would be subject to access to information requests.

Actually the salaries of most Feds are disclosed but do not name the individual. The Treasury Board show the salaries for workers in this document

https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/h...s-taux-eng.asp

So if you know the employer and classification its easy to find and for anybody who is interested this is my annual salary

$70120 and the last contract expired in June 2014 and we have been offered a 0.5% raise. Of course the politicians gave themselves a 2.3% raise which is 5 times more than what the workers are being offered.

Its not very hard to find out the salaries of most public sector workers but Im betting IBM, Google and a few others have no intention of releasing their workers salaries.

not2old

Do workers in your job classification or at the CBSA get paid overtime?

Of course your salary of some $70k has medical benefits, more paid vacation days & a nice civil service pension which most common every day non-government sector workers don't have

Lucky is you