世界日报编译组多伦多3日报导/加拿大高等院校中收入最高者，不是哪家名牌大学的校长，也不是知名教授和权威专家，而是多伦多大学资产管理部负责投资事务的经理董事李昂（John Lyon），他去年薪水加奖金为55万7474元。而且更令人感到不可思议的是，领取全加大学第一高薪酬的人，去年操作的投资，令多伦多大学亏损了令人咋舌的13 亿元。
2000年成立的多伦多大学资产管理部的投资事务在李昂主持下，亏损幅度达到29.5%，原因是股市大跌，还有就是投资于风险极高的避险基金和外汇对冲。该机构现在已减少这样的高风险投资。
多伦多大学校长纳勒（David Naylor）薪水加奖金去年为43万48元，比李昂足足少了12万多。文理科学生会主席格罗夫─怀特抱怨道，这就是为何学生经济负担如此沉重的原因。
Find out who else made the list
http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2009/
Salary Disclosure 2009 (Disclosure for 2008)
-Introduction
-Ministries
-Legislative Assembly and Offices
-Judiciary
-Crown Agencies
-Hydro One and Ontario Power Generation
-Municipalities and Services
-School Boards
-Universities
-Colleges
-Hospitals and Boards of Public Health
-Other Public Sector Employers
-Organizations with No Salaries to Disclose
$100,000-plus earners up 26%
Rob Ferguson
QUEEN’S PARK BUREAU
More than 200 jail guards – a job category slammed by the provincial auditor in December for excessive and questionable overtime that cost taxpayers an extra $20 million – joined the ranks of 53,500 public servants earning over $100,000 last year.
The total number on the “sunshine list” was up 11,000 or 26 per cent from 2007. That is too many at a time when the recession has thrown tens of thousands of Ontarians out of work, said interim Progressive Conservative Leader Bob Runciman, who noted 11 in Premier Dalton McGuinty’s office earned more than $100,000.
“Dalton McGuinty clearly does not understand the meaning of the word restraint,” said Runciman, who earned over $179,000 last year. “It’s going to be hard for them to justify this.”
Fifty-seven people on the list topped the $500,000 mark – mainly senior executives in the high-paying hydro sector, along with hospital CEOs.
“People at the top of the pile have to show some restraint,” said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, who earned $128,297.52 last year as an MPP with extra duties in the Legislature, but will get a raise to about $156,000 this year after being elected party leader.
Among the jail guards, three earned over $155,000 last year, clocking substantial amounts of overtime in jobs that come with an average pay level of $65,000.
The guards on the sunshine list were a reminder of criticisms in the last report from provincial auditor James McCarter, who found absenteeism by Ontario’s 3,400 jail guards was averaging 32.5 eight-hour days a year, happened frequently around weekends and was costing $20 million annually in replacement guards and overtime.
The $100,000 list
Apr 02, 2009 04:30 AM
There is less than meets the eye in the annual “sunshine list” of Ontario public servants making more than $100,000, which was published this week.
The list of 53,572 individuals has been greeted with the usual cries of outrage. (Interim Progressive Conservative Leader Bob Runciman called it “a prime example of the type of waste and mismanagement we’ve come to expect from this government.”) But a closer analysis of the figures reveals a more nuanced picture.
First of all, the list covers not just the Queen’s Park civil servants but also the “broader public sector,” including municipalities, school boards, hospitals, universities and colleges – almost 1 million people in all. The list shows that less than 6 per cent of them are making more than $100,000, a figure not out of line with the general population. And many of them are not “fat cat bureaucrats” but blue-collar workers claiming overtime – police officers, bus drivers, jail guards, hydro technicians and the like.
Second, while the list keeps growing every year, most of the growth is due to inflation. The government began publishing the list in 1996, but $100,000 then is equivalent to $128,458 today. If the bar were raised to the latter level, some 37,000 individuals would be knocked off the list.
Still, that would leave about 16,000 individuals on an inflation-adjusted list, or almost four times as many as made the original list of 4,500 in 1996.
This ought to concern the government. For as the recession deepens and more private sector workers join the ranks of the unemployed, there is the potential for a nasty backlash (see: the election of Mike Harris in 1995) if the public sector’s $100,000 list keeps growing disproportionately.
Ontario releases sunshine list of top salaries for 2008
Updated: Tue Mar. 31 2009 16:59:24
ctvottawa.ca
The people who run Ottawa’s hospitals earned hefty pay increases in 2008, according to the province’s so called “sunshine list,” which discloses all salaries over $100,000 per year.
Jack Kitts, president of the Ottawa Hospital, leads the pack with a salary of more than $618,000 per year. Gerald Savoie, who recently resigned from the Monfort Hospital, followed at $475,000.
Michel Bilodeau at CHEO, Tom Schonberg at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital and Rob Cushman of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network are also on the list.
“If we take a look at (Ontario Public Service) workers, those that have made it on the list this year have done so as a result of about a one per cent increase in their pay,” Premier Dalton McGuinty said Tuesday.
There are 53,572 Ontario public sector workers on the list — an increase of 10,000 people since 2007.
“I think it’s only natural that the sunshine list does keep growing given what happens to salaries and inflation and the like,” McGuinty said.
Jim Hankinson, CEO of Ontario Power Generation, topped the 2008 list, earning $2,485,000.
The so-called “sunshine list” began in the 1996 during the days of former Progressive Conservative premier Mike Harris.
It lists everyone in the Ontario public service and broader public sector who make more than $100,000 annually. Those broader agencies include hospitals, municipalities, schools and post-secondary institutions, and government-owned energy companies.
With a report from CTV’s Paul Bliss and files from The Canadian Press
