About City of Burnaby
What is the City of Burnaby?
Burnaby is the third-largest city in British Columbia — more than 240,000 residents across 98.6 square kilometres of mountains, lakes and town centres immediately east of Vancouver. Its municipal government runs everything from planning, engineering and finance to one of Canada's most extensive parks systems, with roughly 3,800 employees. The city styles the job honestly: "Welcome to your 98.6 sq km office." It has been named one of BC's Top Employers three years running, and its people programs are unusually well documented in its own published submission.
Where will I work?
On site in Burnaby — City Hall, works yards, libraries and facilities across the city — with a hybrid work option available for many office roles. This is in-person public service, not remote work.
What is the City of Burnaby team like?
A large, unionised public-sector workforce: inside (office) staff belong to CUPE 23's Inside Division, and their collective agreement is where the schedule below lives. Reviews sit at a solid 3.7 for work-life balance across 160 Glassdoor reviews — the schedule is popular; the gripes that exist are about management culture rather than hours.
Work-Life Balance
Burnaby's inside-division adverts print the schedule right in the posting: "70 hours bi-weekly; Monday to Friday … (Nine-Day Fortnight)". Seventy hours over nine days is an average 35-hour week at full pay with every other Friday off — a genuinely reduced week, not a compressed one, and the city's own Top-100 submission lists a "35-hour work week (with full pay)" among its flexible-work options. Schedules vary by position (some roles work a standard 80-hour fortnight), so our feed only lists Burnaby jobs whose own advert carries the Nine-Day Fortnight schedule line.
Perks and Benefits
- Nine-day fortnight at 70 hours bi-weekly — a 35-hour average week at full pay, printed in the adverts
- Health benefits with premiums up to 100% employer-paid, plus a mental-health practitioner benefit of up to $2,500 a year
- Maternity top-up to 95% of salary for up to 17 weeks
- Municipal pension and published salary steps on every posting
- Tuition subsidies up to $8,500 a year for job-related courses
- Three weeks' paid vacation after the first year, rising with service