Municipal Salaries

The highest paid municipal employee in Ontario in 2011 was the manager of the City of Ottawa, Kent Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick pulled in $385,785 not including benefits. Benefits could be as high as 20 percent of salary.

The second highest municipal salary in Ontario was received by Joseph Pennachetti, Toronto City Manager at $330,386. Toronto has approximately 3 times the population of Ottawa.

How can this be? Hoe can the Ottawa City Manager have a Higher salary than the city manager of Toronto?

In salary comparison, the average INDIVIDUAL industrial wage in Canada was $45,488 according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Median Household Income (a couple's income) in Canada in 2011 was $55,000 a year according to Toronto Dominion economists. This information appeared in an article written by Dana Flavelle on December 11, 2012 (Toronto Star).

Now, how did we ever get to this point? The difference in income between an individual and a family is so blatantly unfair. And there is more.

The City of Ottawa in my opinion has had major project failures and/or just terrible management of contracts and an inexcusable lack of respect for the property tax payer yet employee costs, including that of the City Manager, are going through the roof.

Too many employees, lack of productivity, departments that should never even exist, future pension bankrutcy, a rapid increase in borrowing: all of this while the mayor and councillors sit around and watch it happen.



Bill O'Malley

Salary disclosure for 2012 will not be available until the Spring of 2013.