Whether you drive or take the bus, commuting downtown for work can be time consuming and costly.

Just ask Briana Osmachenko, her job brings her downtown every day and she's constantly going from one location to another with her truck.

"It gets pricey sometimes if you're parking all day you are going to have to pay like 15 bucks a day," Osmachenko said.

According to the Downtown Winnipeg Biz , 70,000 people work in downtown Winnipeg.

However, employees of the province's two biggest crown corporations receive incentives to work downtown.

On top of regular salaries, Manitoba Public Insurance said 1,000 people working at MPI’s downtown building receive $50 a month to offset commute and parking costs.

Meanwhile Manitoba Hydro said 1,600 of its head office employees receive $64 a month.

Both added up equals $1.82 millon a year.

Some taxpayers are against this incentive.

Don Cooper said, “why should they be the only ones, what about everybody else who works downtown."

While Ron VanDaniker believes it’s a fair price to pay for qualified employees.

“Sometimes it is very difficult to recruit people to certain position and if you are trying to get quality people sometimes you have to have incentives," he said.

“We all gotta be in this together,” said Todd Mackay, prairie director from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. “When one sector of society is getting perks like this that creates a real problem, especially when they are the ones that are supposed to be serving tax payers."