Metro Vancouvers top executives salary now tops half a million dollars – BC [Video]

Metro Vancouver’s top executive received a huge salary increase last year, along with performance pay.

The regional district’s 2024 Statement of Financial Information reveals chief administrative officer Jerry Dobrovolny was paid a base salary of just over $540,000, an increase of nearly $90,000 compared to his 2023 base salary of about $452,000.

Dobrovolny also received bonus pay of $27,133 and benefits that totalled $25,276.

Dobrovolny’s entire remuneration in 2024 came in at $592,416.

News of the increases comes as Metro Vancouver faces a $250 million lawsuit from the former contractor of the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant. The plant itself is an estimated $3 billion over budget.

“I would dare say that not a lot of Metro Vancouver taxpayers got a nearly 20 per cent pay raise over the year, especially if they were at the helm of an organization that was …