Dear Editor:
I retired from teaching in 2001. My B.Ed. degree (five years at the University of Victoria) plus 35 years of teaching in secondary schools in North Vancouver provided an annual 2001 salary of $60,113. What if I had continued to teach until this year (2014)? My annual salary this year would have been $76,220.52. That is a 13 year increase of 26.8 per cent. About two per cent per year overall.
Compare this to a BC MLA. In 2001 my MLA received a salary of $72,100. An MLA now receives a salary of $101,859. So in the same 13 year period an MLA enjoyed a salary increase of 41.3 per cent.
How about our B.C.premier? The premier's salary in 2001 was $117,000. Christy Clark is the happy recipient of a 2014 annual salary of $193,532. That's actually an increase of 65.4 per cent in the same 13 years.
Do you find this fair? Christy Clark thinks it is fair. I don't.
Stu McDonald
Gibsons
