The Ontario government released its public disclosure of the salaries and benefits of Ontario Public Service and broader public sector employees who were paid $100,000 or more in 2006.

This disclosure reveals that the Ontario Securities Commission had 173 employees making at least $100,000 in 2006, for a total of $27.6 million. This is up from the prior year when 147 employees made the list, earning an aggregate $23.4 million.

OSC chair, David Wilson, topped the list in 2006, earning $524,000. Former vice chair, Susan Wolburgh-Jenah, was the only other employee making more than $500,000. No single employee made that much the prior year. In 2006, 19 employees were making more than $200,000.

The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act applies to the provincial government, Crown agencies and corporations, Ontario Power Generation, Hydro One and their subsidiaries, and publicly funded organizations such as hospitals, municipalities, school boards, universities and colleges. The report is published annually and includes organizations that received transfer payments from the province of at least $1 million or that received 10% of their gross revenues from the province during the previous year, provided the transfer amount was $120,000 or more.

The report of public sector employees who were paid $100,000 or more in 2006 is available on the Ministry of Finance’s website at:

www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure