Ontario Power Generation president and chief executive Jeffrey Lyash tours the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Bowmanville, Ont., on Dec. 7, 2019.Carlos Osorio/Carlos Osorio
The chief executive of Ontario Power Generation was the highest-paid public sector employee in the province last year, topping a growing list of those earning $100,000 or more.
Jeff Lyash made more than $1.7-million in 2018, topping the province’s “Sunshine List,” which was released on Wednesday.
Mr. Lyash – who is leaving his job at OPG later this week – saw his salary jump by nearly $200,000 from 2017, when he also topped the list with earnings of more than $1.5 million.
The top spots on the list were rounded out by three other OPG executives, a pair of Crown agency heads, three hospital CEOs, and the president of a corporation that manages investments for a university.
The list grew by more than 19,000 in 2018, with the government attributing most of that increase to more employees from broader public-sector agencies receiving raises that pushed them over the threshold.
More than 151,000 people are on the 2019 list.
Ontario’s 10 best-paid public-sector earners in 2018:
- Jeffrey Lyash, president and CEO of Ontario Power Generation,$1,746,824.
- Daren Smith, president and chief investment officer of the University of Toronto Asset Management Corp., $989,308.
- Glenn Jager, nuclear president and chief nuclear officer of OPG, $962,749.
- Mark Fuller, president and CEO of the Ontario Public Service Pension Board, $803,552.
- Michael Apkon, who left the Hospital for Sick Children in the fall as president and CEO, $792,571.
- Sean Granville, chief nuclear officer at OPG, $774,054.
- Dietmar E. Reiner, senior vice president of nuclear projects at OPG, made $766,192.
- Stephen Rigby, president and CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., $765,406.
- William Reichman, president and CEO of Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, $722,875.
- Andy Smith, president and CEO of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, $714,999.