In April 2023, the premier's 97-person staff were collectively paid nearly $750,000.
Payroll for staff and contractors in Premier David Eby’s office was $768,000 in April, just $42,000 less than a year earlier when John Horgan was B.C.’s NDP premier.
The list released by the Ministry of Finance does not include $275,000-a-year Indigenous reconciliation adviser Doug White or health adviser Penny Ballem at $170,000 a year. A fourth adviser, Thompson Rivers University law professor Craig Jones, is retained through the Legal Services Branch and Eby has refused to disclose payment terms.
In April 2022, John Allan was Horgan’s special adviser for the natural resources sector and the month’s highest-paid member of the Office of the Premier at $91,934.29. Public accounts show Allan was also paid $339,781 during the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2022. The Office of the Premier includes the intergovernmental relations secretariat, cabinet operations, executive and support services and the planning and priorities secretariat. The latter was created after the 2020 snap election, tasked to work with ministries on cabinet social, economic and environmental initiatives.Horgan’s office got a $3.34 million-a-year budget bump in 2021 to $14.68 million. In February’s budget, it grew to $16.045 million under Eby.
“Yet we’re getting the worst results we’ve ever seen in housing. We’re getting the worst results we’ve ever seen in crime and social disorder and chaos as a result of [Eby’s] soft-on-crime policies and his catch-and-release system,” Falcon said. “We’re getting the worst possible results we’ve ever seen in terms of mental health and addictions. And we’re getting the worst results we’ve ever seen in the health care sector. Yet the budget has gone up 78 per cent.
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