2015 Sunshine List: The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hôpital d'Ottawa top earners
Every year Ontario government publishes its annual Sunshine List of public sector servants, which includes nurses, teachers, police officers, and firefighters, with six-figure salaries. In The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hôpital d'Ottawa, 476 staffers made the list this year, earning a total salary of $60,567,367.76 in 2014.
At the top of the Sunshine List
Topping the list for The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hôpital d'Ottawa was President/Président JOHN KITTS who brought home $630,485.00 in 2014.
Following JOHN KITTS was Chief of Staff/Médecin-chef JEFFREY TURNBULL, who had annual earnings of $621,614.21. Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director/Directeur scientifique DUNCAN STEWART made $569,011.80, Pathologist/Pathologiste DIPONKAR BANERJEE made $546,052.28 and Vice President/Vice-président JAMES WORTHINGTON round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $400,593.02 for the The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hôpital d'Ottawa 2015 Sunshine List.
Breaking down the numbers
Among the 476 The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hôpital d'Ottawa's employees, who received more than six-figure salaries 252 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 164 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 34 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 12 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 5 received between $250,001 and $300,000 , 9 received over $300,000 at The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hôpital d'Ottawa.
For a complete list of public sector employees who made the 2015 Sunshine List, go to Sunshine List 2015 Employees List. If you wish to analyse the list by employer go to Sunshine List 2015 Employers List.
The Sunshine List
The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, makes Ontario's public sector more open and accountable to taxpayers. The act requires organizations that receive public funding from the Province of Ontario to make public, by March 31 each year, the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $100,000 or more in the previous calendar year.
In Ontario the Sunshine List was first published in 1996, by the Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris. Just 4,576 names appeared on the first list.