Looks like we do it for the fun of it.

[coyote]

The chart represents average Saskatchewan salaries as well as the salaries of selected individuals. It was compiled using a variety of sources. Where possible, figures cited by employers or industry organizations take precedent over estimates from general employment resources.


WHO MAKES WHAT: SELECTED SALARIES

$8,000,000 -- Wade Redden, Lloydminster, New York Rangers defenceman

$6,133,674 -- Wayne Brownlee, Saskatoon, PotashCorp CFO (total comp)

$5,100,000 -- Ryan Getzlaf, Regina, Anaheim Ducks forward

$4,500,000 -- Jerry Grandey, Saskatoon, Cameco Corp. CEO (total comp)

$4,100,000 -- Brenden Morrow, Carlyle, Dallas Stars forward

$4,000,000 -- Robyn Regehr, Rosthern, Calgary Flames defenceman

$2,267,000 -- Gross billings of Saskatchewan's highest-paid doctor (radiologist)

$1,500,000 -- Mike Babcock, Saskatoon, Detroit Red Wings coach

$1,430,700 -- Billings of Sask's second highest-paid doctor (an ophthalmologist)

$445,000 -- Jon Ryan, Regina, Seattle Seahawks punter

$401,400 -- neurosurgeon

$320,000 -- University of Saskatchewan president Peter MacKinnon

$308,239 -- Saskatoon Health Region CEO Maura Davies

$247,300 -- family doctor

$221,000 -- provincial court judge

$206,500 -- pediatrician

$188,879 -- Aaron Roy, Asquith, bull rider (YTD)

$150,611 -- premier of Saskatchewan

$128,100 -- construction manager

$123,900 -- management consultant

$116,900 -- lawyer

$99,976 -- dentist

$99,845 -- mining petroleum engineer

$94,200 -- pharmacist

$93,177 -- bank financial services manager

$88,700 -- human resources manager

$87,195 -- MLA

$86,624 -- general duty nurse, top step

$85,285 -- civil engineer

$84,000 -- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour president Larry Hubich

$83,400 -- veterinarian

$81,045 -- U of S professor

$79,019 -- environmental engineer

$73,008 -- speech and language pathologist

$72,199 -- Saskatoon police officer (five-year constable)

$72,100 -- psychologist

$71,800 -- Saskatoon firefighter (five years of experience)

$60,300 -- mine labourer

$59,900 -- corrections officer

$59,500 -- physiotherapist

$56,400 -- public relations professional

$54,200 -- school guidance counsellor

$53,300 -- heavy equipment operator

$53,000 -- journalist

$51,800 -- insurance agent

$51,200 -- realtor

$49,000 -- letter carrier (five years of experience)

$47,600 -- plumber

$46,100 -- auto body repair person

$45,700 -- funeral director embalmer

$45,546 -- teacher (five years of experience)

$44,928 -- Interval House social worker child abuse counsellor

$43,956 -- Canadian Forces private in Afghanistan (total compensation)

$42,300 -- average Sask. earnings (Sask Job Futures)

$40,700 -- carpenter

$34,500 -- fitness director

$30,700 -- industrial butcher

$29,952 -- licensed child-care worker

$28,371 -- armoured truck security guard (starting wage)

$27,040 -- special diet cook

$26,354 -- bingo caller

$24,960 -- veterinary assistant

$24,960 -- fast food restaurant manager

$23,100 -- teacher's assistant (2005)

$22,800 -- hairstylist barber

$21,708 -- foster parent for three children (newborn to five years old) ($603 child/month)

$21,000 -- hotel room service server

$20,800 -- live-in caregiver (minus room and board)

$19,240 -- minimum wage ($9.25 h): Fast food restaurant employee, truck washer, cashier, starting general labourer, fruit farm worker, etc.

$18,000 -- farmer

By Jason Warick, Saskatchewan News Network; Canwest News ServiceDecember 5, 2009
http://www.leaderpost.com/life/province+earners/2306223/story.html

 

[gcreekrch]

I knew you guys in the flatlands were making more than we are over here in Bring Cash. :?

 

[Kato]

Isn't it interesting that a fruit farm worker makes more than a farmer? Especially when you consider how short the season is.... :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: I guess we need to plant some apple trees and hire ourselves.

Isn't it also interesting that all of these people rely on food provided for by the guy at the bottom of the list? There is something wrong with this picture........

 

[gcreekrch]

Especially when fifteen of the higher paying jobs fit part of what a farmer is.

 

[Denny]

And look at the investment the farmers have to do there job. Most of the others just need a lunch box. But I figure 4 years of schooling you could up grade if you wanted.

 

[Doug Thorson]

I was at the banker Wednesday, that figure i more than I made last year and more than I am projected to make this year

 

[Hereford76]

$26,354 -- bingo caller

:lol: :lol:

any openings for that in sask?

For several years i've thought in the back of my head that one of these days there is going to be a chance for a young guy to come home or expand around this area as everyone seems to be getting really old. I think that day has come - only there are no young people even remotely interested in taking over or starting in farm/ranch. Hoots are snagging up land left and right around here. Seems like every time I have an "outside" conversation either someone has died or sold their cows or their place to the Hoots. There are a couple younger guys getting bigger and bigger in farming - but they can only get so big and then run themselves ragged trying to get it all done because you can't find help that wants to work like that. A neighboring friend got into a 2000 some acre irrigated place on the lake/river and operated the place for i think 7 years before he sold it. The place almost killed his dad (he can hardly walk anymore) and the son (mid forties) looks like he is late fifties - anyhow he learned how to sell "reacreational land" on the river and he is now a realtor.

Thank god there is something more appealing than financial stability in this business. (I can't believe I fell in love with these stupid cows - and Hereford cows to boot)

 

[Grassfarmer]

Don't worry folks there is a collapse coming - a collapse of society. We cannot continue to have the world fed and supported by the erosion of equity of our primary food producers. I think the "food security" issue will become very important, very quickly. We had better be ready for it when this new dawn comes because it will be a wild ride.

 

[burnt]

Don't worry folks there is a collapse coming - a collapse of society. We cannot continue to have the world fed and supported by the erosion of equity of our primary food producers. I think the "food security" issue will become very important, very quickly. We had better be ready for it when this new dawn comes because it will be a wild ride.

I think you are right and I don't like the way I see things unfolding. Society's values ain't what they used to be.

 

[Kato]

When you look at it, it's really quite scary.

There are more than one generation around now who do not know how to cook something that isn't just reheated in a microwave. Food comes from the store, and milk comes from a carton. And at the foundation of this whole house of cards is the primary food producers who are all going broke. Sooner or later something's going to give.

Everyone has put their faith in large corporations who assure them that there will always be a ready supply of cheap food. I think we all saw last year that just because a corporation is big, that does not mean it cannot fail.

 

[RSL]

We live in a rural community and when it really hit me was at our son's kindergarten show and tell this fall. He brought in coal and pictures of a dragline from the mines in Estevan and the class got talking about big equipment. This turned to one little girl saying she rode in Papa's tractor. Several other kids all rode in Grandpa's tractor or visited Grandpas farm. lots were totally disconnected from the farm, and not a single kid said they rode in the tractor with dad. The missing generation is real, and the causes are pretty apparent in our area.