The annual Sunshine List of Ontario public sector employees who earned $100,000 or more last year was published on March 23.
Disclosing the names and earnings is part of the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act 1996, which requires organizations that receive public funding from the provincial government to make that information public, according to the Government of Ontario’s website.
The Act applies to the provincial government, crown agencies, municipalities, hospitals, boards of public health, school boards, post-secondary institutions, and others.
Highest on the list is Jeffrey Lyash, the president and CEO of the Ontario Power Generation, who earned $1,554,456.95 last year, while the highest earning university employee is Darren Smith, president and chief investment officer of the University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation, with $936,089.48.
This year, there were 131,742 employees on the list compared to 123,410 workers last year. The report also reveals that on average, from 14 Ontario universities, employees earn $140,240.78.
At Carleton University, the average salary was $136,719, with 863 employees being on the list. The university’s interim president, Alastair Summerlee, who started the job in August, earned $117,408.98 with $20,025 in taxable benefits in 2017.
The highest earning Carleton employee is Malcolm Butler, the former dean of science who left the university at the end of June 2017, who earned $394,047. Former president Roseann Runte—who left her position at the end of July—is the second highest earner, with $377,856.
While the federal government presented a budget with a feminist lens for 2018, male employees at universities across Ontario still dominate the list.
Only one woman, Lisa Becker, the chief operating officer and chief compliance officer, of the University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation, was in the top 40, earning $499,678.76.
According to Statistics Canada, in 2016-17 the University of Toronto paid male professors on average $168,425 and women $145,150, a difference of $23,275 a year.
In 2016, male Canadian professors were paid $14,972 more than female professors, an 11 per cent difference.
The Charlatan reached out to various Carleton faculty members on the list but they declined to comment.
