2018 Sunshine List: The Ottawa Hospital 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, 668 staffers made the list this year, earning a total salary of $82,394,904.58 in 2017.
At the top of the Sunshine List
Topping the list for The Ottawa Hospital was President/Président John Kitts who brought home $630,485.00 in 2017.
Following John Kitts was Executive Vice President - Research/Vice-président exécutif, Recherche Duncan Stewart, who had annual earnings of $532,501.92. Chief of Staff/Médecin-chef Jeffrey Turnbull made $475,658.19, Vice President/Vice-président Cameron Love made $381,499.00 and ConnectingOntario Northern and Eastern Region Clinician Program Lead/Chef du programme ConnexionOntario Région du Nord et de l'Est Martin Vogel round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $326,610.00 for the The Ottawa Hospital 2018 Sunshine List.
Breaking down the numbers
Among the 668 The Ottawa Hospital's employees, who received more than six-figure salaries 340 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 243 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 60 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 7 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 9 received between $250,001 and $300,000 , 8 received over $300,000 at The Ottawa Hospital.
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