City Payroll Decreases in 2012
Saturday, January 12, 2013 @ 4:06 AM
Prince George, B.C. – Payroll for employees of the City of Prince George in 2012 came in roughly half a million dollars under the figure recorded the year previous.
Figures from the City’s Payroll department indicate 2011 Gross Wages, including premiums and severance paid, totaled a little more than $45.3 million. The comparable figure for 2012 was $44.8 million.
The City’s Communications Manager, Chris Bone, says that as of Dec. 10th, 2012, the total number of employees was 680. That includes 605 CUPE and IAFF (firefighters union) members and 75 exempt employees. The City has 525 full time employees and 155 part timers. The exempt staff is as follows:
-Acting City Manager and Directors 5
-Managers 21
-Supervisors 29
-Non-supervisory exempt staff 20
-Total Exempt 75
The payroll breakdown for the past two years look like this:
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2011 CPG Gross Wages
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45,349,268.73
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less: Meal Allowance
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(5,960.00)
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less: KM reimbursement
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(199,030.92)
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less: Boot Allowance
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(20,050.00)
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less: Elect Permit
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(5,000.00)
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less : auto allowance
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(280,015.01)
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less: auto insurance
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(11,126.97)
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less: Mayor auto allowance
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(4,499.08)
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less: FF Special Pension refund
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(29,483.73)
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2011 CPG Gross Wages less premiums
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44,794,103.02
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less: 2011 Severance Paid
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(312,887.65)
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2011 CPG Gross Wages less premiums & severance paid
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44,481,215.37
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2012 CPG Gross Wages
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44,824,945.93
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less: Meal Allowance
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(4,200.00)
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less: KM reimbursement
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(175,622.02)
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less: Boot Allowance
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(19,550.00)
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less: Elect Permit
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(3,125.00)
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less : auto allowance
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(272,342.46)
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less: auto insurance
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(7,566.41)
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less: Mayor auto allowance
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(4,848.00)
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less: FF Special Pension refund
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(26,113.14)
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2012 CPG Gross Wages less premiums
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44,311,578.90
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less: 2012 Severance Paid
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(347,158.47)
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2012 CPG Gross Wages less premiums & severance paid
(provided by City of Prince George)
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43,964,420.43
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Comments
What a waste of money. Im sure we need 27 managers. Whats a boot allowance?
I think a boot allowance is a form of severance. If the members of Council get booted from office after an election, they collect an allowance.
That’s an average wage of about $66K per worker.
cute, Oldun, very cute. :-)
So it looks to me that every line item has gone down in 2011 from 2010
Oooops .. wait ⦠not quite correct
The Mayorâs auto allowance has increased by 7.76% over one year. So Mayor Green wanted everyone to cut their spending by 10%. If she complied with that, the auto allowance should have been $4049.17. By coming in at $4,848, she has actually increased the allowance by 19.7% over what she promised she would do.
New Headline
MAYOR’S AUTO ALLOWANCE ONLY PAYROLL INCREASE IN 2012 OVER 2011 – increased by almost 20% over suggested budget.
The first sentence shoul read “down in 2012 from 2011” :-(
What a great place tomcut their budget is pay less wages.
Wonder if they ever thought of cuttig some of the goofy project like bio energy or maybe less travel to places like china, some of the severence pakages. The list is endless when it comes to cutting costs.
It appears that jabbing the middle class is very much in mode.
Cheers
They may be paying less wages but I doubt anyone will get a pay reduction or forced into net zero.
Cutting projects allows a cut in payroll somewhere along the line unless the projects are contracted out, such as more detailed plans of the golf course lands which really should be done to the detail provided by those who want to buy them.
Wait, we cut 21 positions in 2011 according to the mayor and all we save is about 500k in gross wages?
There could be payments for banked vacation and unpaid overtime.
There could be payments for layoffs of management positions. Depending on the emplpoyment agreements signed, the norm is one month per year employed. FOr a long term employee, the payout could be substantial.
It is common to not see a real saving in the year of layoffs. In fact, the payroll costs could be higher.
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