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Public sector salary disclosure across Canada — nine regimes, each with its own threshold and legislation.
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Nine public-sector disclosure regimes across the country.
Ontario
Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996 requires organizations that receive public funding to annually disclose the salaries of employees paid $100,000 or more. The list has been published every year since 1996.
British Columbia
The Financial Information Act requires many publicly funded bodies and public corporations in British Columbia to publish an annual Statement of Financial Information including the total remuneration for employees earning more than $75,000. This dataset covers core BC public service (CRF) employees only.
Alberta
Alberta discloses compensation for Government of Alberta employees under the Public Service Compensation Disclosure Policy. The threshold adjusts annually. Note: names are excluded from the open data CSV — they appear on the interactive web table only.
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan discloses salaries for Crown corporation employees through the Crown Investments Corporation Payee Disclosure Policy. No general public sector salary disclosure law exists. Data is published annually as PDFs only — no machine-readable download.
Manitoba
Manitoba discloses compensation for public sector employees earning $85,000 or more through the Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act. Data is available via ArcGIS Hub with full names, salary, employer, and sector.
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia discloses compensation for public sector employees earning $100,000 or more. Data is published as individual PDF files per organization — no consolidated CSV download is available.
New Brunswick
New Brunswick discloses public sector compensation through its Public Accounts. Data is available via Socrata as CSV. Note: multiple rows per person (one per payment type — salary, allowance, severance) which are aggregated by name.
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island does not currently have a provincial sunshine list law. Legislation was introduced in early 2026 proposing salary range disclosure (without individual names). No downloadable dataset is available.
Newfoundland & Labrador
Newfoundland & Labrador discloses compensation for public sector employees earning $100,000 or more under the Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act (2016). Data is published as individual XLSX files per organization — no consolidated download.
Each province has its own legislation and salary threshold for public sector disclosure. Ontario and most Atlantic provinces use a $100,000 threshold. British Columbia uses $75,000 under the Financial Information Act. Alberta uses a higher threshold of about $159,000, adjusted yearly. Saskatchewan goes lowest at $50,000, while Manitoba discloses at $85,000.