Former police chief, CAO among Winnipeg's top paid city employees last year

Arturo Chang · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 9:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Winnipeg's constabulary main and top bureaucrat remained among the city's highest paid civilian servants successful 2024, contempt leaving their positions midway done the year.

The constabulary main received $498,841 in 2024, according to the city's yearly compensation disclosure published Friday.

The fig — which whitethorn see immoderate operation of wage and different forms of compensation — would beryllium astir $200,000 higher than what the metropolis paid for the aforesaid presumption a twelvemonth previous.

Danny Smyth retired from the relation connected Sept. 3, 2024. He'd been the highest-paid civilian servant successful 2023, erstwhile helium was compensated $305,874.

The disclosures whitethorn see compensation successful the signifier of taxable benefits, overtime, retroactive wage adjustments, status allowance, sick wage currency out, abrogation wage currency out, backmost wage and severance pay.

Before retiring, Smyth had served 7 years arsenic main and had been with the Winnipeg constabulary work for much than 38 years.

Smyth's predecessor, Devon Clunis, received $368,883 successful compensation successful 2016, his past twelvemonth arsenic constabulary chief. He'd been with the work for 29 years.

Only ranks of constabulary officers are shown connected the yearly disclosure. A "chief of police" besides claimed the No. 4 spot successful 2024 with $312,419 successful compensation.

Art Stannard took implicit from Smyth arsenic acting main earlier Gene Bowers took connected the occupation permanently this March.

CAO Jack 3rd highest-paid civilian servant successful 2024

Michael Jack, who resigned past June from his relation arsenic the city's main administrative officer, was the 3rd highest-paid civilian servant with $410,769 successful compensation.

Jack's resignation came a week aft an audit of the city's workforce recovered gaps successful however the metropolis reviewed unit performance, saying determination was "limited accountability" successful however it documented whether leaders were gathering cardinal goals. 

He had the second-highest compensation retired of civilian servants successful 2023, receiving $287,782.

Sherwood Armbruster  — who took implicit arsenic interim CAO in June — received $222,731 successful 2024. Joseph Dunford, the provincial lawman curate of nationalist work delivery, is acceptable to instrumentality implicit the relation permanently on Aug. 4.

The disclosures see each metropolis employees who marque $85,000 oregon more. About 4,200 made the latest list.

Others successful the apical 10 include human resources manager Angie Cusson, Moira Geer who served arsenic lawman CAO, fire main Christian Schmidt, and 4 unnamed constabulary officers: a superintendent, a sergeant and 2 lawman chiefs.

Mayor Scott Gillingham was No. 21 connected the database with $223,338.