How much did we pay our Nunavut MLAs last year? – Nunatsiaq News

March 22, 2016

Ex-cabinet minister Jeannie Ugyuk the highest paid MLA in 2014-15

Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, dependent on the whims of voters for positions that are guaranteed for only four years or less, hold some of the most precarious jobs in the territory.

But with a guaranteed six-figure annual salary, Nunavut MLAs are rolling in the dough — especially those who manage to claw their way into cabinet.

A document disclosing annual MLA pay packages for the period between April 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015 — the most recent year for which numbers are available — shows the lowest paid MLA that year, Alexander Sammurtok of Rankin Inlet, pulled in $115,872.