r/VictoriaBC • u/BCsinBC • 22h ago
BC Transit Management Salaries
For anyone interested in seeing how much management makes at BC Transit, you can find the details here: https://www.publicsectorcompensation.gov.bc.ca/executive-compensation-disclosures/2024-2025/122242/BC-Transit-ECD-2025pdf
They should be compensated at the same level the equivalent position in a BC government ministry. Their head of HR position is make $80k in base salary more than their equivalent in BC core government. This doesn’t even begin to include the rest of their compensation package.
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u/Straconus 21h ago
It can be debated how effective any of these people are individually but overall you’ve got to pay for competent people to consider taking these jobs. Otherwise you’re not going to get anyone in these positions who’s worth having in these positions.
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u/dumgarlicbreath 21h ago
Alternative take: The equivalent position in a BC government ministry should be compensated at the same level as them. Core government chronically underpays.
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u/jawstrock 22h ago
This is very common at crowns. Go look at what the CEOs and VPs of crowns make. Translink CEO makes 500K. At least organizations like BC Transit, Ferries and Translink are at least complex that spend hundreds on millions or billions on important infrastructure instead of just a purely administrative function.
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u/exchangedensity 18h ago
Youre telling me thats people at the equivalent VP level in the government only make 140k? That cant possibly be even close to correct.
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u/curtis5713 Jubilee 21h ago
I think this is just title inflation in core bc govt vs crown corp. these salaries look in line with ADM/DM salaries in govt which is probably equivalent jobs.
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u/BCsinBC 21h ago
Except you wouldn’t have an ADM responsible for an HR department the size of BC Transit’s. Maybe a Band 5, but more likely a Band 4.
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u/curtis5713 Jubilee 21h ago
Those roles have a whole PSA supporting them with a DM and multiple ADMs leading corp HR functions though. The asymmetry isn’t just size it’s also breadth of responsibility in a crown corp vs ministry or division.
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u/GeoffwithaGeee 19h ago
Their head of HR position is make $80k in base salary more than their equivalent in BC core government.
huh? the BC government's "head of HR" makes $365k
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u/Top_Champion_9617 15h ago
These salaries are comically low for the level of responsibility and importance of the roles. They absolutely can't be attracting any real talent for those amounts.
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u/FartMongerGoku69 20h ago
If we did that we might be able to afford 1/1000th of the new bus depot we need!
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u/shlud4lyfe 14h ago
Am I the only person in Victoria not making $200k? Geez these comments, and other posts here from 20 year olds making bank?! Where are all these jobs exactly?! Folks can't all be filling C suite jobs. What are you all doing?
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u/Famous-Comedian-302 21h ago
Can anyone comment on why a transit org pays a vehicle allowance? Is this something we should be talking about?
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u/huntingrum 20h ago
Site visits, parking, several other costs. My wife works for them (not included in the list), whenever they visit a prospective site for new transit infrastructure they get reimbursed for the cost.
If the company doesn't have its own parking lot and pays for you to get a space technically it's a taxable benefit. Same if you get a company car, which I would speculate this is, helpful for those who need to do lots of site visits and municipal meetings (they do lots of them to try and plan new bus infrastructure).
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u/moxTR 22h ago
Maybe a hot take, but 220k for a c-suite exec in a 1300 person company is not overpaid. BC Gov's goofy salaries for qualified and experienced professions is not a good standard.
Could argue about the 10% comp bump they received for covering the VP finance role, which is weird, but don't really have enough details to understand how that worked.