City of Saskatoon, SK Pay & benefits reviews

Good benefits and job security. Not a hard job but the other operators and trades make it more difficult than it should be. I mean were not making rockets here.

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No Progression , No emphasis on learning

ERP Analyst (Current Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 5 December 2023

Worked for City of Saskatoon in ERP implementation. They will give you Permanent job only if you have white skin. No effort to retain skilled staff by the Management

Pros

Good Benefits

Cons

Biased

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Jobs at City of Saskatoon, SK

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Attendant (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 6 November 2023

Had good supervisors, decent pay and mostly good colleagues. Overall a great place to work. Obviously like most orgs it will depend on where and who you work with. But having worked in several facilities and Parks my experience was always good.

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Not worth your physical and mental health.

Maintenance utility (Current Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 30 October 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?The city of Saskatoon has great benefits What is the most stressful part about working at the company?You are a number and that is it, huge division between workers and managers. Very top heavy, so much management it’s hard to understand how they can be so poor at their jobs. What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Toxic, they try to run it more like a correctional centre rather than a place of employment. In their eyes it seems like everyone is an addict or a thief trying to clean them out. What is a typical day like for you at the company?Mass confusion with little to no proper leadership.

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Fun and exciting place to work, lots of room for advancement and personal growth.

Operator (Current Employee) - Transportation - 14 October 2023

Staff and management is great to work with, as long as you do your job you will get along just fine. Work days can start as early as 5:00am and go to 1:30am. Dealing with the general public can be very challenging and stressful at times but most times they are excellent. Pay is just ok, could be much better but benefits are excellent. After 24 years of service you can receive 6 weeks paid vacation and some departments you can bank your overtime and stat days for time off. Everyone for the most part is playing like a team player, basically that’s what it is one big team working together to make things happen.

Pros

Pay, benefits, time off for holidays and banking time towards time off

Cons

Long hours, stressful work days sometimes, very fast paced at times

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Insights into City of Saskatoon, SK

Based on 24 survey responses

What people like

Feeling of personal appreciation
Fair pay for job

Areas for improvement

Trust in colleagues
Sense of belonging
General feeling of work happiness

Decent pay, good benefits, usually entertaining and interesting work.

Secretary (Current Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 3 May 2023

No two days are the same usually, which definitely keeps you entertained. The pay is pretty good, with lots of perks (dependent on union). Flexible (also union dependent). Always opportunities to expand or move upwards.

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Relaxed

Pool cleaner (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 3 April 2023

I enjoyed working with the team. It was night work it was definitely not something that was for me therefore I did not stay with the city very long. Unfortunately I had to give up my position.

Pros

Free workboots

Cons

Nights

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Collaborative, positive workplace. Meaningful work.

Community Services (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 30 November 2022

Enjoyed working in public service where my work positively impacted citizens and improved the community. I also enjoyed working with others who had the same values.

Pros

Good culture, pay, benefits, staff, flexibility and holiday time

Cons

No complaints!

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Fun place to work

Maintenance Technician (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 28 April 2022

I had a great time working for the city. My only reason for leaving is that I had to take care of my children for a some. Great place to work for. Good pay aswell

Pros

Good pay

Cons

Hours

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Job security and good benefits

Heavy Equipment Operator (Former Employee) - Roadways - 5 April 2022

I enjoy working here and like that your home every night. Has good benefits and decent pay. Good work environment. Made some friends here and supervisors are helpful.

Pros

4 ten hour shifts

Cons

Working in extreme conditions

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Relaxed outdoor work with a team environment

Parks Labourer (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 24 January 2022

I enjoyed my work as a seasonal labourer. Although the job can be physically demanding, you get to be outside all day in the summer and can take pride in maintaining our city's wonderful parks. Management can be hard to deal with, and the culture can be clique-y, but overall it's a fun place to work. Beware that as a seasonal employee, you don't qualify for benefits. I worked for them for 6 years and never qualified because I didn't have enough CONSECUTIVE hours.

Pros

every third Friday off (EDO), outdoors

Cons

no benefits

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High stress, toxic management

Operator (transit) (Current Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 29 August 2021

Job itself can be very stressful. Management add a lot of unnecessary stress. Great group of co workers. Lots of split shifts, very difficult to get weekends off. Holidays are based on seniority making it difficult to get desirable time off. (Winter and summer holidays)

Pros

Great benefits

Cons

Stress, split shifts, hard to get time off, management.

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Fun and excitement

Custodian Building (Current Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 3 June 2021

Every thing doing well and I love working with them, very friendly and we have some fun. My co worker and I help us each other, my supervisor thought me a lot.

Pros

Big salary

Cons

Hot inside pool area

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Great Place to Work!

Learn to Skate Instructor (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 3 April 2020

Loved working here it was very fun, very flexible and good pay. Casual hours for the job, but the job its self was also very casual and laid back. Afternoon hours.

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It's Ok.

Custodial Worker (Current Employee) - City of Saskatoon - 6 January 2020

Work conditions are good. Not much for supervision which is nice. Salary,time off is good. Co workers are easy to get along with. If you need a job it's a good place to work.

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Best Place to work

Recreation Worker (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 31 December 2019

Really wonderful work culture. Amazing support from Management. Very well paid and benefits as well.awesome coworkers. Once you start here to work no one leaves until retirement

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Friend;ly work place

Project Manager (Current Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 17 November 2019

The salary is great and the co-workers and supervisors are very friendly. It is a place that one can develop his or her career. They organised internal training for staff at all times.

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Low moral and top heavy management.

Labourer (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 17 November 2019

First 6 years were exciting. Alot of various jobs. Management was a bit much. They throw away thousands of dollars away on poor ideas from city hall, and nickle and dime employees. Poor leadership and low moral was a huge problem. Worked there for 18 years.

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Good place to work

Internship (Current Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 12 November 2019

Good place to work. Relaxed and slow paced but has a lot of projects and meetings. very secure job with lots of benefits. would Highly recommend having a permanent job here.

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Good benefits and safety matters

Supervisor (Former Employee) - Outside worker - 4 November 2019

The City of Saskatoon is a excellent place to work the wages are decent and a chance for advancement the management is alright if competent. Some are and some aren’t!

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Good place to work, not enough hours

Learn To Skate Instructor (Former Employee) - Saskatoon, SK - 10 September 2019

The environment was good, the people were great, the job was fun. The only problem was the hours were minimal because it was teaching kids how to skate and it was on the opposite side of town as me. So going all the wa over there for 4 days of the week for an hour - an hour and a half at a time was not worth it. No problems with management or the job. Good for people who are on that side of town and are looking for a first job.

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