2018 Sunshine List: Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation / Société Des Loteries Et Des Jeux De L'Ontario 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 Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation / Société Des Loteries Et Des Jeux De L'Ontario, 418 staffers made the list this year, earning a total salary of $56,970,990.48 in 2017.
At the top of the Sunshine List
Topping the list for Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation / Société Des Loteries Et Des Jeux De L'Ontario was President and Chief Executive Officer / Président et chef de la direction Stephen Rigby who brought home $683,935.43 in 2017.
Following Stephen Rigby was Chief Operating Officer / Chef de l'exploitation Gregory Mckenzie, who had annual earnings of $462,689.12. Senior Vice President Modernization / Vice-président principal, Modernisation Javier De La Cuba made $388,449.80, Senior Vice President Governance Legal Compliance General Council Corporate Secretary / Vice-présidente principale, Régie, Affaires juridiques et Conformité, Contentieux et Secrétariat général Lori Sullivan made $310,033.22 and Senior Vice President Human Resources / Vice-président principal, Ressources humaines Larry Rourke round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $308,773.22 for the Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation / Société Des Loteries Et Des Jeux De L'Ontario 2018 Sunshine List.
Breaking down the numbers
Among the 418 Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation / Société Des Loteries Et Des Jeux De L'Ontario's employees, who received more than six-figure salaries 137 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 194 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 52 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 23 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 6 received between $250,001 and $300,000 , 6 received over $300,000 at Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation / Société Des Loteries Et Des Jeux De L'Ontario.
For a complete list of public sector employees who made the 2018 Sunshine List, go to Sunshine List 2018 Employees List. If you wish to analyse the list by employer go to Sunshine List 2018 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.
A lot has been debated about the $100,000 threshold of the Sunshine List. If the list was adjusted for inflation since 1996, the real benchmark salary would now be around $151,929.
Those in favor of the current benchmark argue that $100,000 still a lot of money. The average weekly wages for workers in Ontario is $974, which amounts to $50,600 per year. That includes overtime pay, and assumes no weeks off. This is half of the Sunshine List threshold.
Data
All information presented in this website is based exclusively off the publicly released sunshine lsit available for download by the Government of each province: Ontario | British Columbia | Alberta