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Does anyone have a figure on the number of employees any of the cities have?

Kitchener has close to 2,000 employees.

Keep in mind, though, that includes students and very part-timers. That would also include all outside (apart from city hall and the KOF) facilities like community centres, arenas, cemeteries, pools and any other sports and other buildings (as I am sure I am leaving things out) field that requires staffing. I think if you look a unionized members (CUPE 68 (the "outside workers") and CUPE 791 (the "office workers") + management + fire services and you're probably looking around 1,000 easily (plus add some for council, for example).

Next time that I login into PeopleSoft at work, I'll look at the cheque numbers and I'll get back with a more accurate number (791 workers & management are every 2 weeks (perhaps firefighters & council as well), CUPE 68 and part-timers are every week -- so I should be able to figure it out that way), though unsure if cheque numbers include non-employee's (such as outside contractors or other business expenses).

I would imagine for Waterloo it would be a little less per population as they have very few public facilities, and Cambridge would be very similar to Kitchener. So ball parking it, maybe Waterloo has 800 altogether, and Cambridge maybe 1,200.

I was looking to do an analysis of percentage of city staff on the fire department vs. the percentage on the public salary disclosure. While it's probably not a great reporting metric, I was just curious.

Of the 294 City of Kitchener employees exceeding $100,000 in 2017, 184 (63%) were on the fire department. I would imagine fire accounts for a much smaller fraction of overall city staff. 

However, their salaries are probably based on 40-44hr weeks while other staff are closer to 35-40hr.