$26 per hour for a bus driver.

[Swede]

$15 for pizza delivery. Calgary has gone nuts.

[JVS]

1. God forbid people make reasonable livings!

$15 for pizza delivery seems a little high, but the bus driver salary seems quite right considering that it takes a special license and you don't want bus drivers to need a second job and thus be fatigued.

[Swede]

5. They can't find anyone.

My bro works for the city,no one wants to work for less then $20 an hour.

[Deja Q]

2. $26/hr? Who are the passengers, convicted felons?

:wow:

Calgary also keeps a balanced budget. Nuts indeed. :crazy:

Though more money is taken out in the form of taxes in Canada, the tradeoffs sure as hell are worth it in the end.

[Courtesy Flush]

4. One way or another, we still pay the same.

[Swede]

7. A friend of mine now makes $10,000 a month.

He's an electrician, and he says it is hard work.

[Omphaloskepsis]

9. My BIL is an electrician...

He makes about 40$ per hour.. But work is spotty for about four months per year. He is union.

[Omphaloskepsis]

8. The bus drivers can't go to the bathroom when they need to..

That must be worth a few extra bucks per hour.

[Seabiscuit]

3. Poor Ralph Kramden must be rolling over in his grave drooling.

"To the moon, Alice!"

[Nikia]

6. What's the current U.S$:Canadian $

From what I have been told, Canadian dollars are worth less than American dollars, making wages in some places in Canada rather low.
Even if this were U.S. dollars, I am all for people making a living wage. People shouldn't feel lucky that they landed a $10/hour job at a place where they hate the working conditions because their other choice is making at least a couple dollars an hour less or no job at all.

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. 26$ Canadian is 22.20$ US

According to my Dashboard Widget.

[texanwitch]

11. Sounds right to me.

Being a bus driver is hard work.

I ride the bus about 50 percent of the time and I want the driver to be good and well paid.

[Droopy]

12. That's what a CDL driver should be making

That's a skilled trade and it isn't easy to learn how to do the job right.

I have a friend here in Ohio who drives a semi rig and makes local deliveries around the city. He only makes $13 an hour. I think that's a crime, but it's the only place that he can get a local job right now. I get paid by the mile and by the stop, but if you break it down it works out to about $20 an hour without overtime benefits (time and a half). I can barely get by on my own with that. My buddy still lives with his mother.

[Schema Thing]

13. Jesus Christ, with home prices in Calgary

...the minimum wage ought to be 26.00 per hour.