2015 Sunshine List: Regional Municipality of Durham 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 Regional Municipality of Durham, 992 staffers made the list this year, earning a total salary of $114,315,341.16 in 2014.
At the top of the Sunshine List
Topping the list for Regional Municipality of Durham was Chief Administrative Officer GARRY H. CUBITT who brought home $333,255.79 in 2014.
Following GARRY H. CUBITT was Commissioner & Medical Officer of Health ROBERT J. KYLE, who had annual earnings of $311,279.08. Police - Chief of Police PAUL DAVID MARTIN made $217,341.67, Commissioner, Works CLIFFORD R. CURTIS made $214,049.61 and Regional Chair and Chief Executive Officer ROGER M. ANDERSON round out the top-five highest-paid employees with $211,971.69 for the Regional Municipality of Durham 2015 Sunshine List.
Breaking down the numbers
Among the 992 Regional Municipality of Durham's employees, who received more than six-figure salaries 480 received earnings between $100,000 and $110,000 followed by 466 who received between $110,001 and $150,000 , 36 received between $150,001 and $200,000 , 8 received between $200,001 and $250,000 , 2 received over $300,000 at Regional Municipality of Durham.
For a complete list of public sector employees who made the 2015 Sunshine List, go to Sunshine List 2015 Employees List. If you wish to analyse the list by employer go to Sunshine List 2015 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.