The public record,
made legible.
"We believe that a more informed citizenry leads to greater transparency in government."
Our mission
An independent, non-commercial transparency project.
Canada Sunshine List is an independent, non-commercial project that aggregates publicly available public sector salary disclosure data from provincial governments across Canada. Our goal is to make this information easily searchable and accessible to every Canadian citizen.
What is the Sunshine List?
The annual disclosure of public-sector pay above a threshold.
The "Sunshine List" refers to the annual public disclosure of government and public sector employees whose salaries exceed a set threshold. The term originates from Justice Louis Brandeis's famous quote: "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants" — the idea being that transparency in public spending keeps government accountable.
Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act (1996) was the first and is the most prominent, but every province in Canada now has some form of public sector salary disclosure. Thresholds and covered organizations vary by province.
Provincial disclosure thresholds
The bar each province sets for disclosure.
Data & privacy
Public information, re-presented for the public interest.
All data presented on this site is sourced from official provincial government publications and is legally public information. We do not collect, modify, or create any salary data. The information is re-presented in a searchable format for public interest purposes.
Contact & removals
Privacy, corrections, and removal requests.
For privacy questions, data corrections, or to request removal of your profile from this site, email privacy@canadasunshinelist.ca, or use the removal page. Please include your name, the employer, and the year so we can locate the record. We honour reasonable removal requests for our own pages; the official government disclosure itself remains public record and is maintained by the publishing province.