MAKING BIG BUCKS
Premier Kathleen Wynne may be the most powerful person in the province, but she certainly isn’t the highest paid. Although she made $208,974.00 last year, plus $400.80 in benefits, there are 3,681 people ahead of her on the Sunshine List. Among them:
NEALA BARTON
Senior vice-president of communications, 2015 Pan American & Parapan American Games
Salary: $299,897.37
Taxable benefits: $1,040.56 A onetime spokesperson for former premier Dalton McGuinty, Barton made $90,000 more than the current premier last year.
ROBIN HALE
Chief operating officer, Toronto Zoo
Salary: $211,340.53
Taxable benefits: $1,559.61 Attendance at the Toronto Zoo may have hit an eight-year low in 2015, but its executives are still handsomely compensated.
SOON LUM
Plainclothes constable, Toronto police
Salary: $239,942.46
Taxable benefits: $473.25 Lum was again among Toronto’s highest paid cops in 2015, earning $12,500 more than he did the year before.
DANIEL GASCON
Firefighter captain, Town of Hawkesbury
Salary: $224,657.06
Taxable benefits: $989.04 This town on the Ontario-Quebec border has just over 10,000 people, and three of its firefighters made over $200,000.
ANDREW BEVAN
Chief of staff and principal secretary to the premier
Salary: $274,058.98
Taxable benefits: $484.11 This is awkward. Bevan made $65,000 more than his boss last year.
PAUL JAMES ELLIOTT
Teacher, Rainy River District School Board
Salary: $212,750.04
Taxable benefits: $325.63 As president of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s federation, Elliott led heated negotiations with the province for a new labour deal in 2015.
EDWARD SKREPNEK
Shift manager, Ontario Power Generation
Salary: $404,241.72
Taxable benefits: $1,543.68 Twenty shift managers at OPG earned more than Kathleen Wynne last year, but Skrepnek was the bestpaid of them all.
DONNA QUAN
Director of education, Toronto District School Board
Salary: $587,225.40 plus
Taxable benefits: $6,292.36 Quan stepped down amid a storm of controversy in December. Half her massive payout is compensation for unused vacation days she claimed over her 14-year career at the board.