Sage highest-paid city employee in 2020 By: Colin Slark
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The City of Brandon’s highest-paid employee in 2020 didn’t actually do any work.
Despite retiring in February 2020 after several months on paid leave, former city manager Rod Sage made the most money of any municipal employee last year, according to a compensation disclosure report released by the city earlier this week.
Under the provincial Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act, municipalities must disclose how much municipal councillors were paid as well as the salaries of any city employee making $75,000 or more. The threshold was $50,000 until 2019.
Sage raked in $213,519.41 in regular earnings and other compensation in 2020, which is more than $20,000 greater than the No. 2 highest-paid employee, Brandon Police Service Chief Wayne Balcaen. The chief made $193,128.13 in total compensation in 2020.