Over 250 Vaughan employees make ‘Sunshine List’

Vaughan Weekly
April 1, 2014
By Angela Gismondi

Ontario’s list of public servants who take home more than $100,000 a year, also known as the ‘Sunshine List,’ was released Friday.

According to the provincial government, the list, which is published annually, is made public as part of its commitment to transparency. The list highlights the salaries and taxable benefits of Ontario Public Service (OPS) and broader public sector (BPS) employees who were paid $100,000 or more in 2013.

The average salary on the Public Sector Salary Disclosure list was $127,433 in 2013, a decline from $127,576 in 2012.  The average salary on the list has decreased for four out of the last five years.

In the City of Vaughan, 258 civil servants were paid six figures last year, with a few over the $200,000 mark.

Topping the list is the City’s former city manager Clayton Harris who left his post suddenly last year. He made $261,485.90 and $16,641.57 in taxable benefits.

The City’s interim city manager Barbara Cribbett earned $217,750.34 last year.

Paul Jankowski, Vaughan’s commissioner of engineering and public works and Marlon Kallideen, commissioner of community services and John Mackenzie, the commissioner of planning each took home $203,052.35.

Jeffrey Peyton, the City’s former director of building and facilities was paid $227,910.17 in 2013. Facilities supervisor Martin Tripp earned $210,315.55

Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua also made the list. He earned $170,054.16 in 2013.

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.

For more information and to view the full list of the Public Sector Salary Disclosure 2014 (Disclosure for 2013) visit www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/pssd/.