Ontario releases 2024 Sunshine List, top earner made just over $2 million
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Ontario released its 2024 Sunshine List Friday, the annual list that documents public sector employees with salaries of over $100,000, with Ontario Power Generation president and CEO Kenneth Hartwick topping the list again with a salary of just over $2 million.
Employees of the electricity Crown corporation held the top three positions on the list, with six total in the top 10, all earning at least $800,000. Hartwick took top spot last year with a salary of $1.93 million.
Former Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster was fourth on the list, earning about $884,000. He resigned last December.
Just over 377,000 names made the list in 2024.
You can see the top 100 earners at the bottom of this story.
Other high-paid public employees included some college presidents, with three making over $450,000 last year: Conestoga president John Tibbits ($636,106.70), Humber president Ann Marie Vaughan ($497,880.32) and Seneca president David Agnew ($459,778.83).
Caroline Mulroney, president of the Treasury Board said nearly half of the growth on the list was driven by the school board sector, with teachers contributing to 87 per cent of this increase in a statement Friday.
"Compensation in sectors that saw the largest year-over-year increases can be attributed to across-the-board salary adjustments, retroactive payments made in the 2024 calendar year and the most recent collective bargaining outcomes," she said.
Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiew earned $394,228, but was not the highest paid member of the Toronto Police Service. That title went to Chung Wong ($428,232), whom the list identifies as a TPS sergeant. Wong also outearned Demkiw in last year's list.
The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, enacted by former Progressive Conservative premier Mike Harris in 1996, compels organizations that receive public funding from the province to report the names, positions and pay of people who make more than $100,000.
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