Five Ontario Power Generation employees are among the top 10 earners on the province’s Sunshine List for 2023, with the highest salary in the province being nearly $2 million.

The annual Sunshine List tracks public sector employees with salaries over $100,000. This year’s edition includes 300,570 names, over 30,000 more than last year.

Kenneth Hartwick, CEO of the energy company Crown, is once again at the top with a salary of $1.93 million.

Two other company executives – Chief Strategy Officer Dominique Miniere and Chief Projects Officer Michael Martelli – earned just under $1.2 million and nearly $1 million, respectively.

Below is a list of the top 100 earners.

Caroline Mulroney, President of the Treasury Board, highlighted other high-growth areas on this year’s list in a press release.

“The largest year-over-year increases were in hospitals, municipalities and services, and post-secondary education, which together accounted for about 80 percent of the list’s growth,” she said.

The presidents and CEOs of the Hospital for Sick Children and the University Health Network are also in the top 10, each earning around $850,000. The same goes for Phil Verster, president and CEO of the regional transit company Metrolinx, who earns $838,097.

Premier Doug Ford earned $208,974 last year. His chief of staff Patrick Sackville earned $324,675.

Matthew Anderson, CEO of Ontario Health, a provincial agency the Ford government created in 2019, earned $821,000. The head of the Ministry of Health, Deputy Minister Catherine Zahn, earned $477,360 and Health Minister Sylvia Jones earned $165,851.

The list includes more than 25,000 registered nurses, including seven who earned more than $300,000 last year.

Chief Judge Sharon Nicklas, who was appointed to the highest post in the provincial judiciary last May, earned $388,960.

Thunder Bay Police Chiefs Daniel Taddeo ($376,428) and Hamilton Police Chief Francis Bergen ($374,492) received more pay last year than OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique ($373,472). Taddeo retired in April 2023.

Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, who took over the post at the end of 2022, earned $353,411.

Salaries of other important public figures in Ontario include:

• $826,539 for Mark Fuller, CEO of the Ontario Pension Board.

• $709,581 for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Association President and CEO Alfred Hannay.

• $601,376 for Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario.

• $596,392 for Sharon Hodgson, Dean of the Ivey Business School, Western University.

• $563,291 for LCBO President and CEO George Soleas.

• $546,053 for Jane Philpott, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University.

• $533,112 for Royal Ontario Museum President and CEO Joshua Basseches.

• $486,192 for University of Toronto President Meric Gertler.

• $464,148 for Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore.

• $455,091 for coroner Dr. Dirk Huyer.

• $404,003. Stephan Jost, Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

• $395,974 for former Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk.

The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Actenacted in 1996 by former Progressive Conservative Premier Mike Harris, requires organizations that receive public funds from the province to disclose the names, positions and salaries of individuals earning more than $100,000.

Browse the complete Sunshine list yourself Here.