Federation of Canadian Municipalities Pay & benefits reviews

A place where knowledge is not held back. Staff is willing to assist and teach. Managers provide constructive feedback. Good work-life balance, flexible working hours. Great team, great salary packages. Overall good environment to grow a career.

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Experience varies a lot across organization

Officer (Former Employee) - Ottawa, ON - 30 December 2022

If you work for a support function, such as Finance, IT, etc, you can expect to have much heavier workload than your peers in programs. Support function employees are not respected. While programs, particularly GMF, expands with additional funding, programs employees enjoy much better career growth since support functions are seen as overhead and there are almost no opportunities for growth unless somebody leaves a job and they don't hire an outsider. The organization talks about equity day in and day out, however there is not much equity of employment and opportunities to say the least across departments.Salary increases are below the market and the inflation rate. Salary bands remained the same in the last 3 years. There has been exponential growth in headcount while FCM gave the same raises before the pandemic and didn't adjust wages according to the inflationary environment.GMF is the best department to work in now as there are plenty of opportunities of growth and movement.

Pros

Fridays off, work and life balance

Cons

No career growth for support functions, siloed departments

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Great place to work.

ADVISOR, SUSTAINABLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING (Former Employee) - Ottawa, ON - 31 August 2022

Senior leadership is outstanding. Inclusion, diversity and equity are taken seriously; they walk the talk.Very dynamic culture, lots of young people creating wonderful programs.Compensation is very good. RRSP matching plus summer hours = four day weeks and short days.

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Employeur gouvernemental, respectueux de l'équilibre vie de famille

Project Officer Capacity Development (Former Employee) - Ottawa, ON - 19 December 2021

Bonne organisation gouvernementale, offrant de bons salaires et avantages sociaux, très respectueux de l'équilibre entre vie privée et professionnelle.Il faut savoir faire preuve de diplomatie, s'adapter à une multitude d'objectifs contradictoires et ne pas avoir d'ambition trop élevée pour travailler sereinement à la FCM.

Pros

Salaires, avantages sociaux, respect vie de famille, télétravail, rythme tranquille

Cons

Équipes travaillent en silos, confusion sur les objectifs, responsabilités limitées, hiérarchie

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Francois Emmanuel COURTOIS

Geomatician (Former Employee) - Quebec, Montmagny, Sherbrooke et Haiti. - 1 November 2020

Work-life balanceBest Munucipal to work with, Best team ever to be part of. Proud of my experiences with FCMPay & benefitsContinuing EducationJob security and advancementEverything is good at. FCMManagementRespectful PeopleCulture100% EthnicOverallThis is the best place to work as an imigrant, you feel at home, staff very respectful, pay rate is good, continuing Education. Who could ask for something else ?

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