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?

[TOM4CWB]

Chuckchuck,

I agree that weather is involved in marketing.

Prove to me... that the CWB has not wasted millions on weather people and systems... over the past 10 years.

Just because the weather effects our farm... DOES NOT MEAN WE NEED TO EMPLOY A WEATHERMAN.

The kind of weather info... that is 'intelligence'... is in forecasting... not past events.

It is VERY OBVIOUS... if the CWB sales staff had listened to Larry... instead of their own weatherman/people... we would be enjoying much better returns this year.

I can find out is 10 minutes... on public web sites... weather past tense all over the 'designated area'.

International weather is reported minute by minute... on the futures exchanges. It is the responsibility of CWB sales folks to know exactly; EXACTLY... what is going on. NOT the CWB weatherman.

I can always remember the Cargill folks ... in disbelief... commenting on the CWB weather 'intelligence' system!!!

And you can guess what they thought!!!

[bucket]

Bruce Burnett gets to keep his job even with all his computer data and can't see a drought coming in russia?

Come on this guy should have been out the door with ward and ian a long time ago.

[Burbert]

Those posted salaries are, just about the same as our local County Council. In fact they are less!!! Whinning and snivelling about low pay in the workplace, will get you nothin. Comedians, never cease to amaze!

[bucket]

But they have done nothing.

And when Ian and Ward screw up the durum market single handedly they still do nothing.

No new benchmarks for management?

They probably still let management write up their own benchmarks. They are letting the monkeys run the zoo!

They are wasting our money.

Its a disgrace. And incompetence.

[bucket]

By the way burbert, how are you feeling?