- Salary and Wages for Park Managers and Park Naturalists
- Introduction
- Park managers and naturalists play a significant role in maintaining and managing the well-being of the environment in Canada especially in Ontario and Nova Scotia provinces. However, they tend to experience difficult situations while enacting their obligations. One of these situations relates to the low salaries and wages that park managers and naturalists receive. The other difficult situation relates to various challenges associated with potential work in this area. Moreover, park managers and naturalists also experience management hardships while enacting their obligations. This paper discusses all the above-indicated issues that park managers and naturalists experience while enacting their obligations.
- Salary and Wages of Park Managers and Naturalists
- In Ontario, park managers get an average of $50,000 per year. Naturalists get an average salary of between $ 47,000. In Nova Scotia, payment of park manager is ranges to an average of payment of $52,000 per annum. Naturalists in Nova Scotia receive an average salary and wages of between $46,000. Payment is not usually for new employee but tends to rise as one rises up to the ranks in the parks. This indicates that naturalists receive less than managers make. However, naturalists tend to perform more roles compared to park managers. They are entitled to understand the natural and scientific significances of parks. Their obligations entail a wide range of jobs compared to park managers. Both park managers and naturalists tend to experience various risky situations when enacting their obligations in the parks. For example, while handling animals, some of them are bitten. Many of the employees related to both of the two fields indicate that they usually do not work for money, as payment is low but for the occupation aspect of the job.
- Challenges and Opportunities
- Park managers and naturalists working in these provinces tend to experience various challenges while carrying out their activities. Some of the challenges that naturalists encounter include bad weather. During the winter seasons, the environment tends to be harsh for the employees and therefore they experience hardships while working during this period (Human Kinetics, 2006). Naturalists also get challenges because of the issues related to landscaping. Some of the challenges related to landscaping in the parks include erosion and disturbances to wild life (Human Kinetics, 2006). Naturalists also come across with difficult visitors in the parks. Most of the difficult visitors are children who are troublesome as they are not easy to control (Eagles, 2010).
- Another challenge that naturalists face is occurrence of disasters. Some of the natural disasters include heavy rains causing soil erosion in the parks. Moreover, naturalists get challenges from political and government disputes (Shultis & More, 2011). An example of this kind of challenges includes land disputes that emerge because of political and government struggle. Naturalists tend to work for longer hours and eventually they get low payments. They also have more responsibilities that they require to accomplish within the park of which it is a challenge to them.
- Park managers also tend to encounter various challenges while enacting their daily obligations. Some of these challenges include taking the blame when the junior employees or subordinates screw up. Another challenge that managers encounter is being responsible for other people mistakes (Calvert & Portman, 2006). It is the role of the managers to motivate other employees and this becomes an addition obligation. Moreover, park managers tend to make various decisions without their will. Some of the decision may be against their conscious but they find themselves making them because of pressure.
- Managers also tend to experience another challenge of people coming with problems expecting a solution from them. For example, most of the junior employees expect the managers to solve their problems. Managers also tend to experience more workload in their activities where they work for more hours (Calvert & Portman, 2006). Even after working for more hours most of the managers to do not receive recommendable pays especially the junior workers. Park managers tend to have a big title but they do not have the power to change various things.
- Conclusion
- According to the above information, it is clear that park managers and naturalists enact various obligations but they do not get much. Most of the parks in both of the two provinces are great tourism sites and therefore experience high number of visitors. This indicates that managers and naturalists always tend to have much work to do. The workload experienced by both managers is associated with many challenges as illustrated on the above information. However, it is unfortunate that they do not receive high salaries and wages.
- References
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- Eagles, P. J. (2010). Changing societal values and carrying capacity in park management: 50 years at Pinery Provincial Park in Ontario. Leisure/Loisir: Journal Of The Canadian Association For Leisure Studies, 34(2),
- Human Kinetics (Organisation). (2006). Introduction to recreation and leisure. Champaign, Ill: Human Kinetics.
- Shultis, J., & More, T. (2011). American and Canadian National Park Agency Responses to Declining Visitation. Journal Of Leisure Research, 43(1), 110-132.
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