Nearly 570 people were paid over $100,000 while on the Halifax Regional Municipality’s payroll this past year.
The data comes from an analysis of the HRM’s compensation disclosure list which was released on Monday. The document details what the municipality paid to any person who earned $100,000 or more in a single fiscal year.
The list is the second time the HRM has pulled back the curtain on its public employees’ finances. The first disclosure was posted last year.
The figures include salary and any benefits that they used during the time period of April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017.
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In total, the document details over $65.9 million in salary split between 568 employees.
Most employees who qualified for the list fit within the municipality’s published pay scales.
The highest earner was John Traves, the municipality’s director of legal, insurance and risk management services, who was paid $245,376.
Halifax’s top cop, Police Chief Jean-Michel Blais, made $203,507 while Mayor Mike Savage made $176,926.
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Two groups, or business units as they are called by the municipality, are prominently featured on the list.
Halifax Regional Police and Halifax Fire Services have the largest number of employees on the list with 231 and 207 employees, respectively.
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