Access to Justice

Here is an excerpt from an article in Monday Magazine that explored high-level executive pay and benefits in the the Lower Mainland.

Parking break
(excerpt from A Competitive Salary? by Sean Holman of Monday Magazine)

Last month, real estate services company Colliers International reported the median rate for monthly unreserved parking in Vancouver was $224, or $2,688 per year. But the Legal Services Society of British Columbia, the non-profit organization which provides legal aid in this province, gives four of its five top-paid executives a $4,704 “parking benefit.”

So what gives? Well, according to the society’s communications manager Brad Daisley, “The parking fee in the building is $350 a month—which works out with GST and PST to the amount recorded” in its executive compensation disclosure statement. Which means legal services should perhaps be looking for a new building.