Thirty-nine more employees at Health Sciences North joined the 2015 Sunshine List, compared to the previous year.
The latest Ontario Sunshine List, released Thursday afternoon, includes more than 115,000 public-sector employees in the province who made $100,000 or more in 2015.
At Health Sciences North, 218 employees made the list as the hospital entered the third year of a five-year provincial funding freeze in 2015.
Like last year, Dr. Chris Bourdon, the hospital's vice-president and chief of staff, topped the list with a salary of $380,165 in 2015. Bourdon received an additional $5,577 in taxable benefits.
Health Sciences North president and CEO Dr. Denis Roy was right behind Bourdon with $360,982 in earnings in 2015, and $12,907 in taxable benefits.
Roy's salary increased by $13,214 compared to 2014, when he made $347,768.
The list of Health Sciences North employees who made more than $100,000 in 2015 includes 45 registered nurses, 21 pharmacists, six nurse practitioners and three nurse technicians – down from five in 2014.
Dr. Roger Strasser, dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, was also near the top of the Sunshine List for Sudbury, with a salary of $358,585 in 2015. In addition to his salary, Strasser received $23,186 in taxable benefits.
Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, the Sudbury and District Health Unit's medical officer of health, took home $304,271 in 2015 and $6,339 in taxable benefits.
