Port Coquitlam Mayor and Council Vote Themselves Hefty Pay Increase
July 27, 2010 by theleftcoast.ca · 2 Comments
Pretty sweet deal when you can tell your boss that the fact that you have not given yourself a pay increase recently is reason enough to vote yourself a 27% increase in pay.
At a meeting Monday night, Port Coquitlam council voted in favour of a 27 per cent increase for the mayor, which would raise his pay to $85,418 a year from $67,277.
City councillors will get a 42 per cent raise, bringing their pay to $31,654, up from $22,257.
To read more on this topic you can visit the CBC news site: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/07/26/bc-port-coquitlam-mayor-council-raises.html#ixzz0uu2QRqll
It might be informative to give comparably-sized Metro Vancouver numbers for comparison; as it stands, these don’t sound outrageous, especially the councilors rates…
The mayor is now the 8th highest paid in the Metro Vancouver area. He was the 9th highest before the raise.