A Town of Huntsville staff report prepared for the Feb. 27, 2020 Corporate Services Committee meeting outlines the municipality’s top earners in 2019. The full report is included below.
The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996, requires organizations that receive public funding from the Province of Ontario to disclose annually the names, positions, salaries and taxable benefits of employees paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year.
The Act was brought in under the Mike Harris led Progressive Conservative Government in 1996 as it was believed that it served as an important check on the public payroll. If the list was adjusted for inflation since 1996 the real benchmark would now be over $150,000. The Ministry of Finance website provides the current year and archival years and can be accessed by visiting their website.
As per our reporting obligations under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, the table below illustrates our report for 2019:
Denise Corry, Chief Administrative Officer
Earnings: $159,674.29
Taxable benefits: $2,692.80
Stephen Hernen, Director of Operations & Protective Services
Earnings: $134,600.41
Taxable benefits: $1,351.14
Deborah Duce, Chief Librarian/CEO – Huntsville Library
Earnings: $128,774.42
Taxable benefits: $246.20
Yvonne Aubichon, Director of Corporate Services
Earnings: $126,370.66
Taxable benefits: $196.96
Julia McKenzie, Treasurer/Manager of Finance
Earnings: $122,797.89
Taxable benefits: $292.74
Kirstin Maxwell, Director of Development Services
Earnings: $105,120.87
Taxable benefits: $881.41
Gary Monahan, Fire Chief
Earnings: $102,255.81
Taxable benefits: $2,631.70
Lisa Smith, Manager of Human Resources
Earnings: $102,255.81
Taxable benefits: $289.82
Tanya Calleja, Municipal Clerk
Earnings: $101,575.65
Taxable benefits: $281.90
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Henk Rietveld says
Well-earned, no doubt. But the 100K threshold is laughable in today’s dollars. 1996 is twenty-four years old. Surely the government could pass an amendment to recognize the inflation since then. Just sayin’
Marcia Frost says
When the rest of us are making a living wage THEN thes folks can get a raise…until then this town is kept running by peopl who hav to choose between keeping a roof over their heads and having food to eat. We cant afford things like new glasses, gettng our cavities fixed, forget about taking a vacation (i havnt had one in ovr 20 yrs, cant afford to lose the income!)..in otherwords thos of us who serve the tourists and keep money coming in, thos of us who entertain them, who clean up after them, who make sure evryone is fed and who care for all our elderly and children etc etc.
I kno many who work fulltime and can barely get by! And forget about EVER owning your own home in Huntsville, evn tho u wrk fulltime, nearly impossibl for most of us now…its thos in the middle who keep this town running, dont kid yourself and the wage gap here is disgusting! If we lose our workforce we lose everything!
We desperately need balance….i contribute to keeping this town running smoothly and im lucky if i make $15,000/yr….sorry but NOT ok and i can guarantee you, we all work JUST as hard if not harder thn thos making over $100,000/yr. We work ourselves to exhaustion with very littl to show for it. I guarantee you the peopl on tht list can do all the things i listed tht is not doable to the rest of us and thts unfair.
We need folks who are going to wrk for us, the hardworking local peopl who are being pushed out of Huntsville.
Thnk you for doing your part in helping Huntsville flourish but there are a LOT of problms here that need to be addressed befor public servants recieve raises on making over $100,000/yr.
Ray Vowels says
I’ll bet there is not very many working tax payers in Huntsville that have an annual salary over about $50.000 unless they work for the Govt or should I say put in time for the Govt at some level.
Waldi Frankiewicz says
Henk Rietveld, before coming to Canada, we lived in Rome for many years. I had a small repair company and my wife worked 6 hours a day 5 days a week and had about 18 Canadian dollars per hour. After coming to Canada in 1992 she started working at $8 an hour. Today, after so many years of work, she has $14 an hour. There are hundreds of thousands or millions of people like us in Ontario in a similar situation. Politicians are changing, but the financial situation of the poor does not change.
Ray Vowels says
The problem is at some point some smart union decided that instead of asking for a 10 cent raise across the board that they would go for a 3 or 4 % raise instead this sounded real good to executives so it became the norm. now this is why the spread between the rich and the poor just keeps growing not sure we will ever catch up again but this % thing has to stop or the middle class will not exist much longer. All you have to do is figure the math and you’ll see why the poor are falling behind.
Rick Keller says
A total shame. The only one that should be making over 100.000 per year., are firemen or blue collar workers. Government workers should not make more than 50.000 per year.
Bob Slater says
IMHO …Would be nice to see this type of info for all the indigenous communities right across the country! Who?. What? .. Where? etc etc ..and ..just how much has been paid $$$$ out at prov level and federal level for the last 50 years? and … more importantly what exactly have THEY done for their communities with the money for the last 50 years? HMMM?
Waldi Frankiewicz says
Rick Keller, for that to happen, we have to put forward people we can trust in the next election. People like Frances Botham, Marcia Frost and even your candidacy and some others.We cannot rely on candidates selected from lists of several political parties. 99% of Canadians do not belong to any party. Among them there are people who can bring back the lost meaning of life, social order and job satisfaction.They live among us.They suffer as we do.They struggle every day with the idea of how to survive until the end of the month on a budget that is cut to the limit. Giving them a chance we’ll give it to ourselves too.
Bill Beatty says
Hank , there sure are a lot of disgruntled people over this , or maybe just 5 . You are absolutely dead on with Your comment and then there are those who think everyone should make the same wage and low at that…..Sounds a bit sour grapes . I happen to know several of these people and know , not speculate on , how hard they work , the many extra courses they take to stay on top of ever changing economic conditions and government legislation . Many have worked decades to achieve these levels of salaries and don’t blame unions for this as these are not union jobs . If you want to argue salaries , try using Facts !
Rob Millman says
These figures mean nothing in a vacuum. I would be interested in seeing them compared with similar positions for a array of towns with similar populations.
Paul Whillans says
It is almost impossible to assess the ” real value” of a job. What I value may be entirely different from what my neighbour may value.
However, I would note that Ms Corry (for example) was hired as CAO in 2014 at $124,500 per annum. Today she makes $159,675. That represents a 4.25% annual compounded increase over the past 6 years. And she has no fears of layoff; she makes an additional 18% in benefits.
On the flip side, there are many who castigate teachers for having the audacity to ask for a 2% per annum salary increase. And for literally most Canadians, their income has been largely flat for the past 20 years.
Ms Corry may have been worth $124,500 6 years ago. But how do you justify 4.25% annual increases over the past 6 years. Is Huntsville that much richer? Has she far exceeded her performance measures?…….Or is it just poor and cavalier management by Huntsville Council (who by the way receive their increases based upon the recommendations of Ms Corry)