Ontario's Sunshine List: High Earners & Rising Wages

0:00Ontario has released its annual Sunshine List, spotlighting more than 400,000 public sector workers who earned over 100,000 dollars last year. That's a 7% jump from the previous year, showing how the list keeps expanding. Leading the pack once more is Ken Hartwick, president of Ontario Power Generation, with a total pay of $1,907,000 for $108. The top five spots all want to employees from the same power company. This transparency report has been coming out every year since 1996, naming names, jobs, and salaries for high earners and government, and related sectors. Officials have been bumped up the $100,000 threshold to match inflation over nearly three decades. Back then, $100,000 went a lot further. What it bought in 1996 equals about $188,000 today. That unchanged cutoff means more folks qualify each year as wages rise. As details sink in, expect more chatter about public pay scales and where taxpayer dollars flow in Ontario's biggest organizations.

1:07Local news, powered by AI. This is Canada News Today. I'm Corey, with the story.