{"id":15628,"date":"2025-06-26T06:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15628\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T06:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:50:12","slug":"kelowna-city-managers-eye-watering-salary-raises-questions-okanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15628\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelowna city manager\u2019s \u2018eye-watering\u2019 salary raises questions – Okanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Managing the city of Kelowna is a big job, one that pays very well.<\/p>\n

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So well, in fact, it has some questioning why the city manager\u2019s compensation in Kelowna is nearly as much as that of his counterpart in B.C.\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n

According to the so-called \u201csunshine list,\u201d B.C. municipalities\u2019 legal requirement to disclose the salaries of employees paid more than $75,000 a year, Kelowna city manager Doug Glichrist received a salary and expense package just shy of $384,000 in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an eye-watering amount of money for a municipal bureaucrat in Kelowna to be raking home from taxpayers every single year,\u201d said Carson Binda, B.C. director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.<\/p>\n

In fact, Gilchrist\u2019s compensation package is just $5,000 less than the city manager\u2019s salary in Vancouver, a city more than four times the size of Kelowna.<\/p>\n

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Gilchrist is also making over $100,000 more than B.C. Premier David Eby.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think Kelowna City Council owes us some really clear explanation as to what this bureaucrat is doing and why they deserve this massive salary that seems out of whack with other folks in the province,\u201d Binda said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat benefit is there to the citizens of Kelowna, to taxpayers in Kelowna, for this massive compensation?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelowna\u2019s budget for 2024 was at around $855 million, while Vancouver\u2019s came in at more than double that, $2.2 billion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t know the workload that is required, maybe it\u2019s similar,\u201d said Kelowna resident Roger Hazard. \u201cIt\u2019s not very rational to say a population of a million should be the same as a population of, you know, 150,000, 200,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelowna resident Josephine Griffiths called the compensation \u201cmindboggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe it should probably be indicative of the fact it\u2019s three times smaller, maybe the wage should also be congruent with that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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