42,527 Ontario civil servants make $100,000+
 

That's a 24% jump over last year.

While the province's working poor struggle on $8.75 an hour.

Premier Dalton McGuinty says its no big deal.

McGuinty makes $203,439 a year.

Minimum wage just jumped from $8/hr. to a whopping $8.75/hr. This amounts to $4,000 less than the low-income cutoff as defined by the government.

Thanks for sharing?

Every industry has to have it's own bro club.

- ?By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.? John Maynard Keynes

- ?Inflation is taxation without legislation? Milton Friedman

- ?Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it? Frederick Leith

- ?Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth?

isnt that the sad truth.

maybe that's why politicians loose prospective of the working class when they get into office.

Damn. But thats not much different than in the US.

Thats an incorrect statement. It should be "42,527 Ontario civil servants made $100,000+" because it includes employees collecting over time hours. The number of civil servants who make over $100k per year as a salary is much lower.

Never mind the fact that $100k isn't a large number anymore. Ten years ago it was impressive, but in 2008? My damn property tax bill for 2007 was $7800 for fuck sakes.

The front page of the Sun yesterday had a picture of a TTC ticket taker who made $100,016 last year.

He sits in a chair, in a glass box, and makes change for people. That's it.

Lots of TTC drivers make in the $75-85k range, to drive a bus.

Then they hold the city hostage once a year, either threatening or actually shutting down public transportation, leaving thousands of people unable to get to work, because they want more money!!

Fuckin cock suckers. I have no idea why this city puts up with the TTC.

Agreed, too much threats with these strikes.

Even if they made 100,000+ a year on over time.. What about taking 10,000 more people and giving them 40,000+ a year so they can get out of poverty?

You did not happen to see the latest South Park did you?

Canada on Strike! It's aboot respect!

100K is not what was before, besides that, yo have to deduct taxes from all that money and you will see that you have close to the middle of your brute income. Besides that, ontario is one of the most expensive cities of canada.

I would like to know what is the sector that has more people in that group

Don't you just love big government

Wow, that is pushing or more than $5 Billion as I am sure quite a few make more than 100k.

Clearly you know what you're talking about.

It's called redistribution of wealth, and it's wonderful --unless you are a taxpayer.

:(

They should get rid of minimum wage all together. That way people get paid what they deserve to be paid. Some will make more, some will make less.

Damn, is that for real? $100k for a job that any idiot who can count can do, seems a bit excessive..

Somewhere...in the City of Ontario...Rick Mercer is laughing totally at your expense.

the difference is...in canada if you're broke making minimum wage....you still get health insurance...and you always have a govt subsidized place to stay (thats not a ghetto)

even canada's worse ghetto's look like the suburbs in comparison with American section 8 housing

so no matter how "broke" you are....you live fairly well in Canada

agreed....especially those mentally handicapped people....then i could have a whole warehouse full of mongoloids making me hand-knitted sweaters even cheaper than my current mexican/or chinese outsourced workforce :pimp

isn't that city located in the provence of toronto?

The problem in this case is a union who has pushed well past its usefulness. They're always on about how "dangerous" it is to drive a bus, dealing with the "public" I mean c'mon.. What about the other 50 people PAYING TO RIDE THE BUS?? It's not dangerous for them??

To get on the bus here it costs $2.75 now, and will soon be $3.00 I'm sure. We have basically 2 subway lines connected with the bus system. One is a long stretch east-west, and the other north south in a U. Quite small.

In Mexico City for example, they have something like 12-15 lines, the map looks like a shreddy. It costs the equivalent of about $0.20 for a ticket.

Toronto:

http://content.answers.com/main/cont...RTmap-2005.png

Mexico City:

http://www.urbanrail.net/am/mexi/mexico-map.gif

Tokyo for fun:

http://images.google.ca/url?q=http:/...tCXRnYpQKEgUFA

I saw Rick Mercer crossing Petermans Bridge the other day.

Look on the bright side, at least you know why Ontario's new "health care premium" tax is being siphoned into general revenues and not directly into the health care system.

The more startling figures for Ontario was 200,000 manufacturing jobs lost and 100,000 government jobs created. I guess if there is one thing that builds an economy up through tough times its overpaying militant civil servants that don't really do anything.

Thats about 1/3 of what a 16 year old would make at McDonalds in Norway... :Oh crap

I'm not sure where you live in canada but here in ottawa there is a 9 year wait for subsidized housing.

Noticed while on the bus today, the driver is sitting in a Recaro hydraulic seat... ;) Probably a $5k chair.

Wow this stats are amazing. A dr in MN, USA on average makes 123k. This stat is a few years old but really shows the difference. Doctor or bus driver? Who would have said they would be living in the same neighborhood and driving similar cars???

Thats one of the reasons why you guys brown bag your lunch to work and people in N.America eat out everyday.

finally starting to change - but I work at home semi-nude all day so I don't really brown bag anything :winkwink:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

It's the unions that do this:mad:

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I'm sure some of those people are the ones providing the "free" healthcare and other social services that you think are so wonderful. Quit bitching please. :)

thanks the info

I have really lost touch with what people make. here is the article and it has people at a million a year plus on there.

http://www.timminspress.com/ArticleD....aspx?e=966176