(12-03-2018, 12:16 PM)Ace Wrote: Of the 294 City of Kitchener employees exceeding $100,000 in 2017, 184 (63%) were on the fire department. I would imagine fire accounts for a much smaller fraction of overall city staff.In terms of fairness, you would also want to look at Region of Waterloo staff since they pay the police and paramedic salaries. For instance, going back to 2017, the CBC reported that 670 Waterloo Regional Police Service members were on the Sunshine List in 2016, up from 545 in 2016. The numbers below are drawn from the 2018 release (ie it only includes staff who were about the $100,000 threshold). If the CBC numbers from 2017 and the number below from 2018 are accurate, it would show that there was some turnover in the police force from 2016 to 2017.
Summary Total Fire Police Paramedic Children's Aid
Cambridge 170 97 0 0 0
Kitchener 194 143 0 0 0
Waterloo 157 87 0 0 0
Region 971 0 637 59 23
There is also the quibble that according to the Bank of Canada $100,000 salary in 1996 would need to be up closer to a $150,000 salary today to exercise the equivalent buying power, but I digress.
PS. Apologies for the tabs instead of the tables, the Table Generator and I couldn't come to an agreement.