Ontario Sunshine List 2009

SunshineListStats.com is a database of Ontario public sector employees who earned more than 100,000 in 2008 and entered the Ontario Sunshine List.

Salary Name Position
$130,796.24
earned in 2008
ALLISON BARR Director, Research Branch
Research & Innovation
$142,115.67
earned in 2008
AUDREY CHEUNG Director, Research Grants & Accounting
University of Toronto
$101,329.44
earned in 2008
BARRY SCOTT Director, Research Contracts & Industrial Grants
University of Waterloo
$119,751.54
earned in 2008
BONITA MAJONIS Director, Research & Outcome Measurement
Children & Family Services for York Region
$111,553.00
earned in 2008
CHARLENE BEYNON Director, Research, Education, Evaluation & Development Services
Middlesex-London Health Unit
$129,556.44
earned in 2008
CHRIS MONAHAN Director, Research & Planning Branch
Training, Colleges & Universities
$120,000.28
earned in 2008
CYNTHIA MAJEWSKI Director, Research
Women's College Hospital
$120,000.00
earned in 2008
DAN SINAI Director, Research Development
University of Western Ontario
$123,696.41
earned in 2008
DARRYL YATES Director, Research Operations
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health
$124,354.44
earned in 2008
DAVID J PHIPPS Director, Research Services & Knowledge Exchange
York University
$138,380.06
earned in 2008
DAVID M SUTTON Director, Research Information Technology Infrastructure
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
$102,913.50
earned in 2008
DENISE MAKOVAC-BADALI Director, Research, Graduate Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
$127,964.37
earned in 2008
GWEN ZELLEN Director, Research & Innovation
Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs
$100,631.40
earned in 2008
IRIS GUTMANIS Director, Research & Evaluation/Senior Health Scientist
St. Joseph's Health Care, London
$155,573.29
earned in 2008
JAMES F BRIEN Director, Research, School of Medicine/Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology
Queen's University
$115,000.55
earned in 2008
JEAN LAZARUS Director, Research Operations
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
$143,999.99
earned in 2008
JEFFERY WEITZ Director, Research Centre
Hamilton Health Sciences
$161,474.05
earned in 2008
JUDITH CHADWICK Executive Director, Research Services
University of Toronto
$138,068.71
earned in 2008
KATHARINE LOCHNAN Deputy Director, Research/R. Fraser Elliot Curator, Prints & Drawings
Art Gallery of Ontario
$107,544.91
earned in 2008
KENNETH HOUGH Director, Research Facilities Management & OMAFRA/U of G Agreement
University of Guelph
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Published March 2009

Ontario Public Sector Salary Disclosure - Sunshine List 2009

The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996 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.

At SunshineListStats.com, we rank employees from organizations that received public funding from the Province of Ontario and earn over $100,000 per year, including total taxable benefits.

This year's sunshine list includes the top earners in Ontario, including:

2009 Ontario Sunshine List: Top Earners

Every year, the Ontario government publishes its annual Sunshine List of public sector servants with six-figure salaries. According to the document, Ontario's 53,816 staffers made the Sunshine List, earning total compensation of $6,933,718,638.81 in 2008.

At the top of the Ontario Sunshine List

Topping the list for Ontario was President/Chief Executive Officer JAMES F HANKINSON, who brought home $2,475,800.04 in 2008.

Following JAMES F HANKINSON was President/Chief Executive Officer, OMERS MICHAEL NOBREGA, with annual earnings of $1,926,357.70. Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer PIERRE R CHARLEBOIS made $1,460,070.86, President/Chief Executive Officer LAURA FORMUSA made $924,436.94, and Chief Nuclear Officer THOMAS MITCHELL round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $924,084.96 for the Ontario 2009 Sunshine List.

Breaking down the numbers

Among employees who received more than six-figure salaries in 2008, 20,563 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 24,658 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 6,050 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 1,242 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 695 received between $250,001 and $300,000 , and 608 received over $300,000 at Ontario.

  • Salary breakdown
  • 20,563 employees made between $100,000 to $110,000
  • 24,658 employees made between $110,000 to $150,000
  • 6,050 employees made between $150,000 to $200,000
  • 1,242 employees made between $200,000 to $250,000
  • 695 employees made between $250,000 to $300,000
  • 608 employees made more than $300,000

For a complete list of public sector employees who made the 2009 Sunshine List, go to Sunshine List 2009 Employees List. If you wish to analyze the list by the employer, go to Sunshine List 2009 Employers List.

Sunshine List Resources

Here are the Frequently Asked Questions about the Ontario Sunshine List.

The Ontario Sunshine List is the Ministry of Finance's listing of salary, benefits, and severance information. The Ontario Sunshine List is the province's annual list of public sector employees and publicly-funded agency employees paid more than $100,000 annually. For a complete list of names, go to SunhineListStats.com

In 1996 the Ontario Sunshine List began as a way to ensure accountability to taxpayers through Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act. The annual list of public sector employees who earn over $100,000 per year or greater.

SunhineListStats.com aims to spotlight government spending and public funding to create awareness of where your money is being spent as a taxpayer. It lets taxpayers compare the performance of an organization with the compensation given to the people running it.

No, the Ontario Sunshine List does not include non-taxable benefits such as pension costs. The Sunshine List includes salaries and taxable benefits.

The Ontario Sunshine List is calculated by using a list of taxable salary, benefits, and severance information.

Yes, the Sunshine List does include bonuses, salaries, overtime, severances, and benefits.

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, 244,390 staffers made the list, earning a total salary of $30,240,295,606.44 (more than thirty billion) in 2021.

The Ontario Sunshine List aims to shed light on government expenditures. The Sunshine List also helps the Ministry of Finance identify public sector employees who earn over $100,000 in salary and above.

Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act aims to provide transparency to taxpayers and accountability to the Ontario government regarding hiring practices. Public sector employees earn over $100,000 annually, so taxpayers are naturally interested in how and where their money is being spent. The Ontario Sunshine List is a resource to give taxpayers insight into the use of public funds.

Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act aims to provide transparency to taxpayers and accountability to the Ontario government regarding hiring practices. Public sector employees earn over $100,000 annually, so taxpayers are naturally interested in how and where their money is being spent. The Ontario Sunshine List is a resource to give taxpayers insight into the use of public funds.

The $100,000 annual income is calculated before taxes. If these public sector employees are paid $100,000 or more, then the total of these taxable benefits has to be disclosed.