'Sunshine List' reveals thousands of $100K earners

9,000 workers whose Ottawa-based organizations receive funding from the Ontario government made at least $100,000 in 2017, according to the annual salary disclosure published Friday.

At the top of the local “Sunshine List” is Jack Kitts, president and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital, who pulled in $630,485 in salary and $69,108.37 in taxable benefits. Kitts, who has headed the hospital since February 2002, has the 23rd highest salary on the province-wide salary disclosure.

Bigwigs in the health and education sectors fill out the rest of the top-10 list for local moneymakers.

Duncan Stewart, the executive vice-president of research at The Ottawa Hospital, made $532,501.92 in salary, plus $2,002.31 in taxable benefits, landing second on the local list. Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, who announced his departure as The Ottawa Hospital’s chief of staff last year, is third with a $475,658.19 salary and $10,020.28 in taxable benefits. 

The Ottawa Hospital has 668 people in the $100,000 club last year, everyone from corner-office executives to registered nurses. fourth position on the local top-10 list is pathologist John Veinot, who made $464,289.53 and $1.931.04 in taxable benefits. He’s followed by Marc Sougavinski, CEO of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network, with a salary of $440,540.49 and $5,709.60 in taxable benefits, one of 43 people who work at the Champlain LHIN who cracked the $100,000 threshold.