许汤娱英年薪31.1万 称冠华裔公务员
【明报专讯】安省公务员和公共机构雇员年逾10万高薪“阳光排名榜”周一出炉，年薪逾10万元的安省公务员及公共机构雇员人数，去年比2006年上升了24%，增加了8,000人。在昨日出炉的安省“阳光排名榜”当中，本地有多名分别来自政界、警界及社服界的华人都榜上有名。其中，来自市府界别的多伦多市府经理许汤娱英，相信在华裔公务员“高薪一族”之中称冠，年薪高达31.1万元。
至于两名华裔的民选议员亦跻身名单当中，来自省议会界别的安省公民及移民厅长陈国治，年薪达到14.2万元，而来自市府界别的万锦区域议员黄志华，年薪亦有10.2万元。
与此同时，来自警界的多伦多警队督察源植勉，年薪也达到11.8万元。另外，不少华人社服机构的负责人亦榜上有名，其中包括颐康中心首席行政总监黄陈曼丽（19.4万元）、耆晖会总干事梁乐欣（14.2万元），以及孟尝会行政总监张建祥（12.6万元）。
榜首高官年薪220万
而年薪高达220万元，名登2007年榜首的高官是专责掌管市府退休金的安省城镇雇员退休系统(Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System)主席哈吉斯(Paul Haggis)。
所谓“阳光排名榜”纪录42,000个安省政府雇员，和公共机构、城镇、医院、学院和大学雇员，他们的年薪都超过10万元。
自2005年以来，大约14,000个公务员和公共机构雇员晋身年逾10万元高薪一族，少数人更跻身百万元俱乐部。
安省城镇雇员退休系统(Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System)主席哈吉斯(Paul Haggis)去年独占鳌头，年薪220万元，还有近1万元课税福利。安省电力公司(Ontario Power Generation)主席汉金森(Jim Hankinson)位居第2，年薪170万元，另加7,500课税福利。OMERS高级投资副总裁皮尤(Paul Pugh)年薪120万元，也是排名高的雇员。
安省公务员和公共机构的员工收入丰厚，安省保守党领袖庄德利(John Tory)最近批评公共服务，指官僚游手好闲。省长麦坚迪(Dalton McGuinty)则说，公帑用得其所。
麦坚迪说，安省的公共服务在全国效率高，排第2位，仅次于斯高沙省。安省的人均公务员比例，在加拿大最低。
在安省“阳光排名榜”上，能源业的业者有8,000多人，比2006年多1,000人。年薪逾10万元的城镇雇员增幅最大，去年增加41%。
排名榜上的医疗护理业者也不少，从2005年的3,100人增至4,100人。护士、医疗辅助人员和病理学家已是年薪10万元俱乐部的中流砥柱，大学健康网络(University Health Network)行政总裁贝尔(Robert Bell)是年薪最高的医护人员，薪金和福利合共83.5万余元，其次是圣米高医院(St. Michael Hospital)的行政总裁洛扎(Jeffrey Lozon)，年薪76万元。
“阳光排名榜”上也有警察、校长、教师和3个水喉匠。
保守党的朗西曼(Bob Runciman)说，安省经济放缓，但安省创造职位，主要靠公共服务，情况令人担忧。自由党任由官僚系统膨胀，以令人震惊的速度加薪，完全不理会纳税人的钱包。安省新民主党领袖汉普顿(Howard Hampton)指摘政府，说执政自由党忽视弱势社群的利益，不肯大幅提高最低时薪，却让公务员和公共机构雇员大幅加薪。
安省政府真正“富贵”.过半公务员年薪逾10万
加通社多伦多电/安省的市政退休金主席去年年薪220万元，成为最高薪公务员；至于年薪逾10万元的公务员人数较2006年大幅飙升24%。
根据该份被称作“阳光名单”(Sunshine list)所示，在公营公司、市政府、医院、专上学院和大学任职的42,000名公务员，去年年薪逾10万元的，较2006年增加了8,000人。2005年已有14,000名公务员和公营机构雇员加入年薪逾10万元行列。有一小撮人更年入百万元。
安省市政雇员退休计划(Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System简称OMERS)主席哈吉斯(Paul Haggis)位列去年最高薪公务员，另加近1万元应课税福利，安省发电公司(Ontario Power Generation)总裁韩坚逊(Jim Hankinson)列次位，年薪170万元及7,500元应课税福利。OMERS投资部高级副总裁皮尤(Paul Pugh)年薪是120万元。
省长认为人有所值
安省保守党党魁庄德利不久之前，曾批评部分公务员无事忙，却领取高薪。安省省长麦坚迪表示省府该笔钱使用得当。他周一在温莎市参观车厂后表示，安省的公务员服务效率之佳，仅次于新省，位列全国第二；按人口比例计，安省公务员人数是加国各省中最少者，换言之，安省能以较少人手发挥最佳工作效率。
他表示，省府有聘用水质检查员、护士、医生和教师等，假如庄德利认为公务员中有冗员的话，很希望对方指出哪一个部门须要瘦身。
能源机构员工有逾8,000人位列该名单内，较2006年刚增加1,000人；市府雇员年薪逾10万元的人数增长最多，较06年飙升41%。
3名水喉匠年薪10万
医疗护理机构亦有4,100名雇员位列名单内，较2005年增加了3,100人。多名护士、救护员和病理学家已被列入年薪10万元名单。但最高年薪者是多伦多的大学健康网络(University Health Network)的行政总裁贝尔(Robert Bell)，薪酬加福利逾77万元，紧随其后的是多伦多圣米高医院(St. Michael’s Hospital)行政总裁卢信(Jeffrey Lozon)，年薪76万元。至于年薪有61.6万元的是多伦多西乃山医院(Mount Sinai Hospital)总裁马柏(Joseph Mapa)。至于年薪逾10万元的亦包括警务人员、校长、教师以及3名水喉匠。
官僚架构膨胀
保守党省议会领袖伦士曼指出，安省经济即使不是陷入衰退，亦已在下滑。而安省最大雇主一直是公务员机构，情况确实令人忧虑。自由党政府任由官僚架构膨胀，未有精打细算，而公务员加薪幅度已到了响起警号的边缘。
伦士曼指出安省省民辛勤工作，缴纳税款，期望政府精打细算，尤其是面临经济困难的时刻。如今省府发出的全是错误信息，证实省民的怀疑，即省府只知满足私利，公务员亦只是为个人打算。
官员政客不应加薪
新民主党党魁汉普顿指出，自由党政府继续漠视省内最脆弱的一群，拒绝大幅提高最低时薪的同时，官员和政客的薪酬却不断飞涨。
他表示，安省政客周二会是16个月内第3次加薪，合共增加35%，与此同时，省府却削减前线员工人手，增加高级管理人员数目。
汉普顿指出，踏入自然资源厅办公室，许多时不见人影，但管理层人员却不断增加，在领取丰厚薪酬。
42,000 public employees made more than $100,000, list shows
CHINTA PUXLEY
The Canadian Press
April 1, 2008
TORONTO — The head of Ontario’s municipal pension fund was the highest-paid civil servant last year with a $2.2-million salary, as the number of bureaucrats and public sector workers earning more than $100,000 jumped a whopping 24 per cent over 2006.
The so-called “sunshine list” released yesterday shows 42,000 Ontario government employees and workers at Crown corporations, municipalities, hospitals, colleges and universities pulled in more than $100,000 last year – an increase of 8,000 over 2006.
Since 2005, some 14,000 civil servants and public sector workers have been added to the list of those making more than $100,000.
A select few have even joined the $1-million club.
Paul Haggis, president of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, topped the list of last year’s earners with a $2.2-million salary and nearly $10,000 in taxable benefits. Jim Hankinson, president of Ontario Power Generation, came in second with a salary of $1.7-million and $7,500 in taxable benefits, while the senior vice-president of investments at OMERS, Paul Pugh, earned $1.2-million.
While the public service has come under attack recently from Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory, who accused some bureaucrats of simply “breathing each other’s exhaust,” Premier Dalton McGuinty said the money is well spent.
Ontario’s civil service is the second most efficient in the country after Nova Scotia’s, he said. Ontario also has the fewest civil servants per capita in Canada, Mr. McGuinty said after a stop in Windsor, Ont.
“We’re actually running a very efficient operation,” he said, adding he would like to know who Mr. Tory considers expendable.
“We’ve hired water inspectors, we’ve hired nurses, we’ve hired doctors, we’ve hired teachers…. Which of those does he declare surplus? Which of those would he fire? Which of those would he let go?”
The energy sector accounted for more than 8,000 workers on the list – an increase of just over 1,000 from 2006. The number of municipal employees earning more than $100,000 saw the largest increase, swelling 41 per cent over last year.
The health-care sector also dominated the list with 4,100 employees, up from 3,100 in 2005.
Nurses, paramedics and pathologists have become staples of the $100,000 club.
But Robert Bell, CEO of the University Health Network in Toronto, topped the list of health-care workers with a combined salary and benefit package of more than $770,000, followed by Jeffrey Lozon, CEO of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, who earned $760,000.
The sunshine list also includes police officers, principals, teachers and even three plumbers making more than $100,000.
“Mostly this is just about people who, just through slight advances in their pay, have made it across the line,” said deputy premier George Smitherman, who chalked up much of the increase to inflation.
But Conservative Bob Runciman said given the slowing economy, it’s worrisome that the bulk of job creation in Ontario has been in the public sector.
Inflation expands ‘$100,000 club’
42,527 in public sector hit six-figure bracket in Ontario last year
Apr 01, 2008 04:30 AM
Robert Benzie
Queen’s Park Bureau Chief
The Liberal government insists inflation is to blame for Ontario’s “$100,000 club” growing larger every year.
In all, 42,527 provincial civil servants and others in the broader public sector earned $100,000 or more last year, according to salary disclosure figures released yesterday.
Paul Haggis, president and CEO of OMERS Administrative Corporation, which oversees municipal employees’ pensions, tops the list at $2.24 million, followed by Ontario Power Generation president and CEO Jim Hankinson, who got $1.79 million.
Deputy Premier George Smitherman defended the ballooning roll of well-paid mandarins, which jumped from about 34,000 last year.
As the two-volume, 855-page list landed with a thud at Queen’s Park, Smitherman emphasized things have changed since former Progressive Conservative premier Mike Harris launched the “sunshine list” in 1996.
“Most of it is just about inflationary creep. Two-thirds of the people would not be on the list if the list was protected against inflation and the $100,000 number grew each year,” said the deputy premier. “Because it doesn’t, it’s just capturing a lot of people that just make it across the line.”
Adjusted for inflation, $100,000 in 1996 dollars equals about $125,000 today, according to Statistic Canada, but Smitherman said there are no plans to raise the threshold.
Tory MPP Bob Runciman (Leeds-Grenville) pointed out the list has increased by 110 per cent since the Liberals came to power in 2003.
“Given the tenor of the times, if you will, the challenges we’re all facing certainly in the province of Ontario, is this appropriate when we have these kinds of dramatic increases in salaries of public sector employees?” asked Runciman.
NDP Leader Howard Hampton contrasted the club with those on minimum wage of $8.75 an hour.
As usual, power utilities dominate with 168 pages of staffers at Hydro One and OPG, many of whom crack the $100,000 barrier by working overtime. Of 416 people working at the Independent Electricity System Operator, 245 – or 59 per cent – were in the six-figure bracket.
Among Ontario’s top watchdogs, Auditor General Jim McCarter got $224,794, Ombudsman André Marin $194,743, Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller $137,228 and Chief Energy Conservation Officer Peter Love $317,499.
Tony Dean, who retired in December as secretary of cabinet and led the 60,000-strong Ontario public service, made $301,772.
Toronto city manager Shirley Hoy earned $311,128. Rob MacIsaac, chair of Metrolinx (formerly the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority) got $207,009 and Mississauga city manager Janice Baker $238,932. Lisa de Wilde, CEO of TVOntario, criticized for closing its Queen’s Park bureau, got $246,723.
See the full list online at: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2008/.
With files from Tyler Hamilton
http://www.thestar.com/article/407811
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Who considered the public interest on a $4-million payout?
Murray Campbell
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
This is like one of those stories you read sometimes where a candidate dies during an election campaign and ends up winning anyway.
All the stories about the Ontario salary-disclosure list that came out this week identified Paul Haggis, who was said to have pulled down $2.2-million last year, as the president of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System.
There are a couple of problems with this: Mr. Haggis hasn’t been president of OMERS for more than a year, and he actually walked away from the pension plan with $4-million in his pocket.
These two clarifications raise a few issues. First, the so-called sunshine list isn’t the zenith of transparency that it’s touted to be, and, second, OMERS is way more interesting than you would think considering that it’s stuffed to the rafters with actuaries.
And, lastly, did the government know what it was doing a couple of years ago in giving complete autonomy to the board that runs the $51-billion pension fund?
Mr. Haggis was brought to OMERS to deal with a rising deficit and to reverse a decision to hand over management of one-third of its assets to a private company run by former executives.
He stayed for 3? years, leaving suddenly in February of 2007, amid press reports that he had lost a feud with his board.
The official line, according to OMERS vice-president John Pierce, is that the role for Mr. Haggis disappeared in 2006 when the government gave complete autonomy to the fund’s board.
But Sid Ryan, president of the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (whose members represent 45 per cent of the plan’s 380,000 members), said “in essence, he was fired by the board.” The truth is in there somewhere.
In 2006, Mr. Haggis had earned $450,000 in base salary, which is apparently fairly modest in the big-dog world of investment managers.
(The president of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan earned $472,000 that year, for example.) When he left, he was paid $188,000 in base salary for his partial year and $738,000 for an annual incentive plan.
But that’s not all. OMERS has two incentive plans – one short-term and one long-term. And when Mr. Haggis cashed in his long-term plan, he took away $1.2-million, or about $28,500 for every month he worked for the pension fund.
All this adds up to the $2.2-million “salary” that was cited in this week’s salary list. What didn’t get included was the $1.8-million in severance pay he got for quitting, which brought his total payday to $4-million.
(He also added $194,000 to the value of his pension in 2007 for a total value of $870,000 based on 3.7 years of service. Nice work if you can get it.)
Now, none of this is meant to vilify Mr. Haggis, who apparently did a good job cleaning up the outsourcing mess (although sneering at the highly paid is one of the great pleasures associated with the annual salary list).
Neither should OMERS be ridiculed, since it has climbed out of deficit and increased its assets by 8.7 per cent last year thanks to its investments in everything from Bruce Power to Golf Town.
But who’s looking out for the public’s interest? When lucrative remuneration became an issue at Hydro One, the government stepped on its compensation committee and it is trying to contain the salaries of top executives at utilities.
That’s not going to happen here. Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Watson is taking a hands-off approach, saying he doesn’t have any direct responsibility because no provincial dollars are involved. But municipalities get billions in transfers from Queen’s Park. As Mike Harris used to say, there’s only one taxpayer and they paid nearly $2-million for the OMERS board’s decision to give Mr. Haggis the boot.