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[–] SamuelRJankis@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For those that don't know she was mayor of a town of 1,500 people. Generally places of this size aren't paying someone enough for it to be a full time job.

This article has a good chart for BC with population and mayor's salaries.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-mayors-councillors-salaries-2021-1.6518877

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I looked into running for mayor for my town of 400 and the pay was barely 15k a year haha

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

those that don’t

For those who don't know, who/qui is used here and not that/que. The latter form objectifies people, which some find insulting.