In 2022, there were about a dozen city employees who made a higher salary than Burnaby’s mayor.
Burnaby’s top paid employee, Leon Gous, chief administrative officer, made $353,046 in 2022, according to the city’s newly released statement of financial information.
By contrast, Mayor Mike Hurley made almost $190,000 last year.
The next highest paid city employees include Ed Kozak, general manager of planning and development, who made $260,337 and James Lota, general manager of lands and facilities, who made $250,171.
The financial report lists the salaries of all city employees who earn more than $75,000 as well as that of elected officials.
The city had 1,038 employees making more than $75,000 and about 3,233 employees making less than that. The city paid a total of $174.67 million in base salaries last year.
The salaries of other general managers and senior staff members include:
- Dave Ellenwood, general manager of parks, recreation and cultural services ($228,765), who retired in July. Mary Morrison-Clark became GM of parks, recreation and culture in August 2022 and made $79,128 last year.
- Bachar Khawajah, chief information officer ($223,421)
- Dave Critchley, general manager of community safety ($228,175)
- Bob Klimek, deputy general manager of finance ($220,449)
- Anita Bhandari, chief human resources officer ($214,259)
- Dipak Dattani, general manager of corporate services ($208,864). He received $162,726 in “benefits/other,” which includes retro pay, payouts of unused vacation or overtime. He retired in November.
- Chris Bowcock, fire chief ($206,948)
- Beth Davies, chief librarian ($206,320)
- May Leung, city solicitor ($205,899)
- Jozsef Dioszeghy, general manager of engineering ($150,779)
- Noreen Kassam, deputy CAO and CFO made $121,713 in salary and $163,643 in “benefits/other,” which includes retro pay, payouts of unused vacation or overtime.
