In 2025, the City spent $52,293,510 on wages for the City's largest employee group (CUPE employees and Program Instructors) - and $19,766,895 on management wages.

From 2024 to 2025, wages for the City's largest employee group increased 𝟕%, while management (including exempt) wages increased a whopping 𝟐𝟎% - rising from $16.47 million to $19.77 million, 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 $𝟑.𝟑 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫.

Management wages increased at nearly three times the rate of the City's largest employee group.

So:

• For every $1 taxpayers spent on wages for those employees, they spent another 38 cents on management wages.

Or:

• Nearly 22 cents of every payroll dollar went to management wages.

𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦:

2022: +𝟏𝟏.𝟒%

2023: +𝟑.𝟗%

2024: +𝟏𝟒.𝟐%

2025: +𝟐𝟎.𝟎%

𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑-𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒.