First Nations Financial Transparency Act: median salary for a chief is $60000 – Toronto Star?
Toronto Star analysis of salaries posted online under First Nations Financial Transparency Act show median salary for a chief is $60,000.
OTTAWA—Call him the zero-dollar chief.
Randy Porter is the chief of Bonaparte Indian Band , a small community about 80 kilometres west of Kamloops, B.C., and he collects nothing — no salary, no honorarium, not even any travel expenses — in exchange for his elected duties.
“I’m blown away by the amount of money that is being paid to some of the chiefs. Just blown away,” says Porter, whose own band has seen its share of financial troubles.
“That was my choice. It’s just my way of putting back, as opposed to taking,” says Porter, who already has a full-time paying job as an accountant at Thompson Rivers University.
Like many Canadians, Porter has seen the headlines about oversized salaries — such as the $914,000, including an $800,000 bonus, paid to another B.C. chief, Ron Giesbrecht of Kwikwetlem First Nation, which caused a stir when it was revealed in documents posted online under the First Nations Financial Transparency Act last fall.
