2020 Sunshine List: Sinai Health System 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 Sinai Health System, 586 staffers made the list this year, earning a total salary of $79,232,796.56 in 2019.
At the top of the Sunshine List
Topping the list for Sinai Health System was President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Newton who brought home $684,005.50 in 2019.
Following Gary Newton was Neonatologist-in-Chief Shoo Lee, who had annual earnings of $469,998.88. Director, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute James Woodgett made $440,739.18, Principal Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute Stephen Lye made $434,112.90 and Executive Vice President, Academic and Medical Affairs Maureen Shandling round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $420,006.70 for the Sinai Health System 2020 Sunshine List.
Breaking down the numbers
Among the 586 Sinai Health System's employees, who received more than six-figure salaries 297 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 186 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 37 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 29 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 8 received between $250,001 and $300,000 , 29 received over $300,000 at Sinai Health System.
For a complete list of public sector employees who made the 2020 Sunshine List, go to Sunshine List 2020 Employees List. If you wish to analyse the list by employer go to Sunshine List 2020 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.