This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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A recent report shows that approximately 10,000 more public sector workers in Ontario have surpassed the border of $100,000-a-year salary threshold to get enrolled on the province’s “sunshine list” which has hence grown up by 11 per cent from last year.
This increment has been observed regardless of the insistence of the cash-strapped provincial government to overcome the $11.9 billion deficit, for two years of voluntary pay freezes in the public sector. Progressive Conservative MPP, Rob Leone (Cambridge), mentioned that “the sunshine list continues to grow. We have concerns about that,” highlighting that his party proposed a mandatory public sector wage freeze to save $2 billion a year. Leone currently earns $116,550 per year. The rate of growth has been kept the same as 2011, as the workers move up through salary grids and similar mechanisms, with the result that there are now 88,412 provincial and civic employees, including all MPPs and cabinet ministers, making more than $100,000 annually.
Speaking on the matter, the Finance Minister, Charles Sousa, mentioned that the average salary on the list has actually somewhat decreased, to $127,525 in 2012 from $127,566 the previous year. He alleged that “we’re doing our best to hold it.” Previously known as the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, the list was launched in 1996 by former Progressive Conservative premier, Mike Harris, to make the public payroll more transparent for workers including bureaucrats, police, teachers, hospital executives, politicians and many others.
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