List: 98K public service workers making $100K+

Ontario’s top-paid employees of 2013 were revealed Friday afternoon.

This year’s Sunshine List includes nearly 98,000 public sector workers whose annual salaries top $100,000.

This year we saw an 11 per cent jump in the number of people who broke the 6 figure mark.  However, the average salary was down slightly from last year at $127,433.

At the top of the list is President and CEO of Ontario Power Generation, Tom Mitchell.  His wages cost tax payers $1.71 million in 2013.

Former premier Dalton McGuinty left his MPP post in June, but still walked away with nearly $175,000. His chief of staff David Livingston, who’s under investigation for a scheme to delete gas plant emails, made $108,000 during his nine months with the premier.

Hamilton’s top-paid employees are both in the health care sector and both made just over $710,000 in wages and taxable benefits. Kevin Smith is the head of St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and the Niagara Health System. Murray Martin is the CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences.

NDP MPP Peter Tabuns says these are the roles where Ontario needs to make serious salary cutbacks. “20 hospital execs making more than 500,000 dollars. That says to us we’re paying too much at the top. And frankly, that’s where I think the focus has to be.”

Also in Hamilton, suspended police officer David Doel made over $134,000. He had already collected more than half a million since being suspended in 2009 for disciplinary charges, including having sex on the job.

Hamilton police chief Glenn De Caire earned $228,000.

The director of education for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, John Malloy, made $236,000.

And Paul Bates, special advisor to the president of McMaster’s DeGroote School of Business made $226,000. Bates resigned as DeGroote’s dean in 2010 after a feud over his lack of academic credentials. DeGroote’s current dean, Leonard Waverman made $340,000.