Image: Screenshot, SD33 board package agenda / Chilliwack school board trustees received a salary increase pegged to inflation, which was 8.1 per cent, meaning trustees will now make a minimum of $24,170. SD33 trustees make just barely more than SD78, Fraser-Cascade School District.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Trustee remuneration

Chilliwack school board trustees receive salary adjustment pegged to inflation; minimum salary is now $24,170

Sep 15, 2022 | 2:11 PM

CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack school board trustees have received a slight adjustment to their yearly salary pegged to inflation.

In a memo from Secretary-Treasurer Gerry Slykhuis contained within the 153-page board package for Tuesday’s school board meeting, Chilliwack School District trustees will now earn a base salary of $24,170. The vice chair will receive $25,597, while the board chair earns $27,362.

According to Board Policy 190, trustee remuneration will be adjusted annually effective July 1 each year. The adjustment reflects the Canadian Consumer Price Index established for July of each year for the previous 12 months.

Chilliwack trustee remuneration is in line with other nearby school districts, though considerable time is devoted on their part to committee assignments, regular board meetings, learning sessions, school liaison visits, and email correspondence, not to mention phone calls and texts for a district that has an enrolment of over 14,000 students. They receive a $300 communications stipend twice a year on top of their salary.

With a student population of about 19,200, Abbotsford School District trustees currently receive an annual salary of $25,810, while the vice chair earns $28,400, and the chair receives $32,270. After the October election, their pay will increase to about $29,000, $33,400, and $37,700.

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As of 2019, Fraser Cascade School District pays its trustees about $21,500, vice chair $22,500, and board chair $24,500. Its salary increases are also tied to inflation. It covers Agassiz, Hope and the small surrounding communities, and has an enrolment of about 2,200 students.

Other municipal elected officials in Chilliwack make considerably more. Chilliwack city councillors earn approximately $43,000 with some benefits; Fraser Valley Regional District board members who are not elected officials from a specific city or municipality receive approximately $36,000, like a director from a specific electoral area.

Cultus Lake Park Board commissioners earn a base of about $15,000 a year, but there is additional pay for vice chair or board chair due to their additional responsibilities; the park board chair has a remuneration similar to the base salary of a Chilliwack school board trustee.

The Chilliwack mayor earns approximately $122,000 a year.

by Mike Vanden Bosch

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