B.C.’s 100 top-paid public employees

Each of the 100 highest-paid public sector employees in 2020-21 earned over $390,000.Scroll for more...

Only 28 were women

Three organizations employed 83 of B.C.’s 100 highest earners: UBC, Powerex and the Provincial Health Services Agency.

Only 24 per cent were women

There were 18 people who earned over a half a million dollars in 2020-21.

Only four were women

Women in the top 100 were most likely to reach top-paid positions at health authorities, a sector where women are overrepresented. Roughly 73 per cent of B.C. health-care workers earning $75,000 or more are women, according to Postmedia’s data.

60 of B.C.’s 100 highest-paid women worked in health care