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TORONTO — A total of 111,438 public sector workers in Ontario were paid over $100,000 in 2014.
The annual sunshine list, which includes nurses, teachers, police and firefighters, in addition to civil servants, increased by more than 13,600 workers over 2013.
Reporters are still poring through the six-volume report of big earners, but it appears Ontario Power Generation CEO Tom Mitchell topped the list again with $1.55 million in salary and benefits.
There are about 12,500 employees from OPG, Hydro One and their subsidiaries on the 2014 list, up by nearly 1,000 over 2013, when the auditor general warned those salaries were driving up electricity rates.
Premier Kathleen Wynne was paid just over $209,00 last year, up about $10,000 from 2013.
There have been calls to raise the $100,000 threshold, which was first set when the sunshine list was created in 1996, but the opposition parties say that's still a lot of money for most Ontarians.
If indexed to inflation, the income threshold for the sunshine list would be about $145,000.
Ontario’s 2014 sunshine list shows 111,438 public sector workers paid over $100K
TORONTO — A total of 111,438 public sector workers in Ontario were paid over $100,000 in 2014.
The annual sunshine list, which includes nurses, teachers, police and firefighters, in addition to civil servants, increased by more than 13,600 workers over 2013.
Reporters are still poring through the six-volume report of big earners, but it appears Ontario Power Generation CEO Tom Mitchell topped the list again with $1.55 million in salary and benefits.
There are about 12,500 employees from OPG, Hydro One and their subsidiaries on the 2014 list, up by nearly 1,000 over 2013, when the auditor general warned those salaries were driving up electricity rates.
Premier Kathleen Wynne was paid just over $209,00 last year, up about $10,000 from 2013.
There have been calls to raise the $100,000 threshold, which was first set when the sunshine list was created in 1996, but the opposition parties say that's still a lot of money for most Ontarians.
If indexed to inflation, the income threshold for the sunshine list would be about $145,000.
Ontario’s 2014 sunshine list shows 111,438 public sector workers paid over $100K
