Hundreds of local public-sector employees on Sunshine List

Ontario’s 2022 Sunshine List was published Friday.

The province's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act requires any public servant salary at or above $100,000 to be declared and published yearly.

At the City of Barrie, chief administrative officer Michael Prowse had the top salary last year at $302,426.

Former Barrie police chief Kimberley Greenwood earned $290,437 in 2022.

Georgian College president and chief executive officer Kevin Weaver had a salary of $261,752 last year.

At Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, former president and chief executive officer Janice Skot, who has since retired, had a 2022 salary of $585,709, followed by executive vice-president Nancy Savage at $397,710, executive vice-president Bentley Peterson at $377,674, vice-president Darrell Sewell at $310,032, Dave Brewin, the regional chief information officer, at $256,849, and current RVH president and CEO Gail Hunt at $207,462. 

Dr. Charles Gardner, the medical officer of health for the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit, earned $325,055 in 2022. 

The CAO of Simcoe County, Mark Aitken, earned $298,277 last year. He is the highest paid among 295 County of Simcoe employees on the 2022 list. Aitken is followed by health and emergency services general manager Jane Sinclair at $257,617.

There are more than 1,900 Simcoe County District School Board employees on the 2022 Sunshine List. Director of education John Dance tops the list at the public board with $280,876.08.

There are 889 employees at the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board on the list. Topping the list is director of education Frances Bagley, who earned $249,696.00 in 2022.

Since the Sunshine List was established in 1996, the threshold for disclosure (salaries of $100,000) has not changed. According to the government of Ontario website used for Sunshine List disclosure, the Canadian Consumer Price Index has increased by 54 per cent between 1996 and 2020.

If the original threshold established in 1996 followed inflation, the 2018 Ontario list would be reduced by 87 per cent (from 205,470 people in 2020 to 26,245 people). There were 4,494 people on the Sunshine List when it came out in 1996.

Check out the full Sunshine List for 2022 by clicking here.