2018 Sunshine List: Kingston Health Sciences Centre 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 Kingston Health Sciences Centre, 274 staffers made the list this year, earning a total salary of $34,480,653.66 in 2017.
At the top of the Sunshine List
Topping the list for Kingston Health Sciences Centre was President and Chief Executive Officer/Président-directeur général David Pichora who brought home $715,034.64 in 2017.
Following David Pichora was Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff / Vice-président exécutif et médecin-chef Dr. David Zelt, who had annual earnings of $348,471.29. Pathologist/Pathologiste Dr. Alexande Boag made $328,136.60, Project Coordinator Clinical Trials/Coordonnateur de projet des essais cliniques Dr. Chris O'Callaghan made $305,179.44 and Pathologist/Pathologiste Dr. Timothy Childs round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $296,339.41 for the Kingston Health Sciences Centre 2018 Sunshine List.
Breaking down the numbers
Among the 274 Kingston Health Sciences Centre's employees, who received more than six-figure salaries 127 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 114 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 16 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 8 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 5 received between $250,001 and $300,000 , 4 received over $300,000 at Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
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