Search the names, positions, salaries, and total taxable benefits of public sector employees in Ontario paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year.
This data provides critical insight into the compensation of government officials, educators, healthcare workers, and public safety officers, ensuring that citizens can see how tax dollars are utilized.
The highest-paid public sector employees in the Sunshine List 2025.
Common questions about the Ontario Sunshine List and how public sector salary disclosure works.
The Ontario Sunshine List is the annual public disclosure of Ontario public sector employees who were paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year. It has been published every year since 1996 under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act and covers provincial ministries, municipalities, hospitals, school boards, colleges and universities, and agencies such as Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One.
Kenneth Hartwick, Special Advisor at Ontario Power Generation, was the highest-paid employee on the 2025 Ontario Sunshine List with a salary of $1,907,409.
See Kenneth Hartwick's salary history →The 2025 Ontario Sunshine List includes more than 400,000 public sector employees — everyone who was paid $100,000 or more by a covered employer in 2025. The list typically grows each year because the threshold is fixed while salaries rise.
The threshold is $100,000 per calendar year. It was set in 1996 and has never been adjusted for inflation — indexed to today's dollars it would be roughly $187,000, which is the main reason the list keeps growing.
Ontario releases the Sunshine List near the end of March each year, covering the previous calendar year. The most recent list covers 2025 and was released in March 2026.
Yes. The disclosure reports salary paid and taxable benefits as separate amounts. Employee profiles on this site show both figures, along with salary history across every year a person appears on the list.
Type any name into the search bar on this page. If that person was paid $100,000 or more by a covered Ontario public sector employer, their employer, position, salary and taxable benefits will appear, including past years.
Search people on the Sunshine List →The name comes from the idea of "letting the sunshine in" on public spending — making taxpayer-funded salaries open and transparent. The nickname stuck and is now used for public sector salary disclosures across Canada.