CWB salaries

[lesm]

Does anyone know what salaries are paid to the directors of the CWB?

[Fransisco]

Its in the annual report.

http://www.cwb.ca/public/en/about/investor/annual/pdf/08-09/2008-09_annual-report.pdf

[Fransisco]

for 08-09

Vos, Henry $41,000

Chatenay, James $10,333

Nielsen, Jeff $25,667

Hill, Larry $104,000

Ritter, Ken $12,333

Woods, Bill $25,917

Oberg, Allen $57,125

Goff, Cam $29,917

McCreary, Ian $12,333

Korneychuk, Kyle $ 43,625

Flaman, Rod $34,560

Nicholson, William $45,250

Toews, Bill $42,500

Carefoot, David $36,250

Findlay, Glen $31,500

Johnson, Bruce $40,700

Motiuk, Kenneth $37,500

[JACKFLASH]

fransisco: all i can say is money paid for a nothing result. except for a few open market directors. the rest are just minions of the great cwb. These people have no impact in policy. This is a club, window dressing.I just as soon see this abolished. We get more impact from a nine minute video.

[bluefargo]

I guess if I weren"t so lazy I could dig this out myself but maybe someone knows this off the top of thier head. Are these payments to directors just salaries (honourariums) or do they include travel expenses?

[charliep]

The answer to your question is on page 27 of the last annual report.

Basic retainer appears to be $20,000 (there are differences) plus payment per diems for meetings.

Travel expenses are not included.

Have done the full dig through the annual report but you likely could find out the travel portion.

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Given the time away from business and family, would anyone expect the CWB to accept less compensation?

[bluefargo]

Thanks Charlie

Actually these payments don't seem excessive given the size of the operation.
It's important that we take the time to vote in the right directors.

[Koldkanuck]

If the CWB is "supposed" to be our grain marketer, why are we paying wages for a CWB agronomist, or a CWB weather analyst? What about other useless people they have working, that has sweet f.a. to do with marketing.

[chuckChuck]

Kanuck. So weather anlaysis has nothing to do with marketing? Have you not noticed that when major weather events occur that they get priced into the market? Anyone on a marketing desk needs to know what supply they have and what the competition has. World weather is a major factor in supply and demand.

[Koldkanuck]

chuckChuck....I understand that, but there are 100's of companies that offer that for a small monthly fee. How much you want to bet that it's costing us more than 50 bucks a month for wages for these people in the CWB?