You're paid according to the market value of your skills.

Untrue. If we had figured out how to pay people based on the actual work they do, politicians would not be banking so much dough.

I'm sure your managers who show up at 10:00AM and leave at 2:00PM and make 6 figures and go on "fact finding" paid in full 1st class trips all over the place would disagree with you.

I recently started working for a crown corporation and I am in hell. I have a university degree, a dozen years of academic coordinating under my belt, years of varied and interesting work experience both here and abroad, I decided to get into the public sector for some kind of future...and I am doing nothing except paying invoices for 8 hours a day. Have been told "Think about the pensionable hours, think about the money and security" but I am essentially pulling a lever all day long. Paying fucking invoices. Invoice after invoice. No interaction, no emails, nothing except repetitive nonsense. This is a horrible way to spend your life. I have applied for other positions and been denied. And everyone in the public sector just sucks up their situation and carries on, no ambition, no real need to want more, professionally-speaking. Perhaps at your job you at least make some kind of difference. Truth is, in Vancouver, there is no hope and no future.

It's so hard to get out once you're in, too. I got one job through youth employment strategy in uni, and have been pigeonholed in this crap industry ever since. Donors, you are pretty much wasting your money. PS, gift matching isn't real. The match funds are just money that has already been donated by some other entity already, and it gets used to sucker people into giving. False sense of urgency. It's a gross and cheesy sales tactic.

Ugh. Some of the meanest human beings work in non-profits. I have never encountered such rotten-to-the-core female bosses as I did when I floundered in that world. I'm a hard-working person with a giving heart, but there is so much corruption within fundraising that I felt sick - even when we uncovered major financial fraud by staff, the Boards did nothing. It's why I only give to charities who use 100% of money raised to help. And not to six figure salaries!

ya but the people who aren't managers are working 40 hrs a week. and certain skills don't translate to pay, such as personalities, being relaxed taking down the aggressiveness of situation, making a quick call, responding well to information, assessing. There on the job training skills and iv'e seen people with them and with out them and it makes a huge difference. Alot of managers work extremely hard to for 5 figures, not 6. And we are not talking about vacation wages for these employees, we are talking about living wages. 20 an hour for a job with a high rate of burning out and tough incidences (losing people etc.) does not cut it in this town

NON PROFIT! All extra cash goes to salary for top. If CEO of these scam have salary limit no higher than 3 team lowest paid, there would be no so called non profit bs.

With all due respect, you are an ingrate. You work at a crown corporation, with all the benefits that entails, but that sucks because you "pull a lever all day long?" Many of us also do repetitive, boring work. Unlike you, we do it with little pay, even few benefits, and a lot of physical pain. Just ask my podiatrist. You are sitting in a clean, quiet environment doing paperwork. ITS ALL I'VE EVER WANTED! You really have no idea how lucky you are.

Then get an office job. You will see other physical symptoms--like office ass, weight gain--and you will experience toxicity among the employees and incompetence / backbiting because of how greedy yet lazy everyone is. And there is no paperwork involved; it is sitting in front of a screen punching the same button for 8 hours a day. If that appeals to you, by all means, apply. There are people working there without even a high school diploma.