Some of the highest public sector salaries on the Sunshine List in Sudbury include those paid out to employees in the hospital and health unit.
In Sudbury, this means the boss at the hospital was the highest paid public sector employee in local health care.
Dominic Giroux, the President and CEO at Health Sciences North, had a base salary last year of $368,953. Added to that, but not showing anywhere on the Sunshine List, is an additional $80,208 salary that Giroux earned as the president and CEO of Health Sciences North Research Institute (HSNRI).
This pushed Giroux's annual salary to more than $449,000.
His 2022 salary compares with Giroux's earnings of $368,948 the previous year (2021) and $80,000 at HSNRI for a total salary of roughly $448,498 that year. Giroux announced in February he is leaving HSN to take up a new position in Ottawa in June.
Overall, the hospital reported 794 of its workers were on the $100,000-plus list last year. HSN has roughly 4,000 employees. Along with Giroux, the following are the 10 highest-earning employees at the hospital.
Second in line in terms of salary was HSN senior vice president Mark Hartman, whose earnings were listed at $280,989. His salary was followed by:
- Hospital Senior Vice President and COO Max Liedke was also on the list with earnings of $276,175.
- Dr. John Fenton, who is also HSN Chief of Staff, has earnings reported at $247,491.
- Cardiology medical director Dr. Mark Henderson was reported as earning $238,424.
- Registered Nurse Brenda Slywchuk was reported as having earned $228,668 last year.
- Dr. Jason Prpic, the medical director for pre-hospital care, had earnings of $220,143 last year.
- HSN clinic leader Sheryl Vincent had earnings of $220,077 last year.
- HSN vice president of surgical and clinical services Kelli-Ann Lemieux was paid $219,159 last year.
- Anthony Keating, President and Chief Development Officer of the Foundations and Volunteer Groups. earned $217,864 last year.
- Jennifer Witty. Vice President, People Relations and Corporate Affairs whose earnings were reported at $199,463.
Jennifer Witty quit her executive job at HSN in February. No information was provided on her future plans.
Also in the public sector in health care were many $100K workers in the Sudbury health unit.
Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, who is the Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer at the Public Health Sudbury and Districts, had the highest reported salary for the health unit.
Her salary listing for 2022 was $365,157, which was a drop from the previous year.
In 2021, the health unit reported Sutcliffe's salary at $800,726, which included what Sutcliffe said was a significant amount of overtime owing due the COVID-19 pandemic. It was reported that the $800,000 salary figure reported in March 2022 included more than $200,000 in overtime from 2020 (the first year of the pandemic) and more than $260,000 in overtime for 2021.
The 2022 list of health unit workers earning more than $100,000 was 53 people. Many of those workers were managers and administrators who were just over the $100,000 limit. This also included several public health registered nurses.
Other health care related salaries were paid to Kari Gervais, the president and CEO at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Sudbury, who earned $232,182 last year.
Also at St. Josephs was Barb Desjardins, Vice President – Corporate Services, who had earnings of $162,804 last year.
