British Columbia Sunshine List 2013 (FY 2012-13)

British Columbia’s 2013 compensation disclosure: every disclosed public-sector compensation for the year, with top earners, sectors, and employers.

5,430

employees disclosed

$93,971

average compensation

$85,706

median compensation

$273,145

highest compensation

In 2013, 5,430 employees at 1 British Columbia public-sector employers were disclosed on the province’s compensation disclosure (FY 2012-13, the fiscal year ending in 2013). The average disclosed compensation was $93,971 and the median was $85,706 — the disclosure covers only employees above the $75,000 threshold in force that year, not the entire public-sector workforce.

Compared with 2012, the list shrank by 460 names (-7.8%, from 5,890 to 5,430), and the average disclosed compensation fell 0.5% from $94,444.

The highest-paid person on the 2013 list was William Lakey (Medical Dir, Work Hlth & Safe) at Province of British Columbia, at $273,145. The full top 25 is below; for interactive filtering of all 5,430 records, use the data explorer or see the British Columbia dashboard for the latest year.

FY 2025 figures include school district SOFI data (~21K employees over $75K) that wasn't ingested for prior fiscal years; the headcount increase is partly a coverage change, not a workforce change. FY 2010 is missing from the source data.

Highest-paid public-sector employees in British Columbia, 2013

Top 25 by compensation on the 2013 disclosure. Click a name for their full year-by-year profile.

Name

Position

Employer

Compensation

William Lakey

Medical Dir, Work Hlth & Safe

#	Name	Position	Employer	Compensation
1	William Lakey	Medical Dir, Work Hlth & Safe	Province of British Columbia	$273,145
2	Henry J R Reiner	Crown Counsel Level 4	Province of British Columbia	$250,131
3	Michael W Yamanaka	Assistant Medical Director	Province of British Columbia	$232,564
4	Ralph Keefer	Crown Counsel	Province of British Columbia	$230,028
5	Robert H Wright	Executive Director, CASP	Province of British Columbia	$225,608
6	David A Jardine	Crown Counsel Level 4	Province of British Columbia	$224,262
7	Gordon G Matei	Deputy Director	Province of British Columbia	$220,496
8	Paige L Johnstone	Crown Counsel	Province of British Columbia	$216,560
9	Peter M Favell	Crown Counsel	Province of British Columbia	$212,947
10	Lorne S Fisher	Regional Crown Counsel	Province of British Columbia	$208,936
11	C Geoffrey Baragar	Legal Counsel Level 3B	Province of British Columbia	$207,207
12	Michael S Petrie	Legal Counsel Level 4	Province of British Columbia	$206,941
13	Oleh S Kuzma	Legal Counsel Manager	Province of British Columbia	$206,736
14	Joseph Bellows	Legal Counsel Level 4	Province of British Columbia	$206,376
15	Mark K Levitz	Legal Counsel Level 4	Province of British Columbia	$205,285
16	Christopher McPherson	Legal Counsel Level 4	Province of British Columbia	$196,891
17	Elliot Z Poll	Crown Counsel	Province of British Columbia	$194,796
18	Catherine M Romanko	Public Guardian & Trustee	Province of British Columbia	$194,591
19	Jennifer Jordan	Judicial Officer	Province of British Columbia	$194,553
20	Kathryn Sainty	The Registrar, Supreme Court	Province of British Columbia	$194,553
21	M. Andrew MacDonald	Regional Crown Counsel	Province of British Columbia	$194,166
22	Brian Rendell	Director, Legal Operations	Province of British Columbia	$193,171
23	Shannon J Halyk	Regional Crown Counsel	Province of British Columbia	$190,606
24	Grant B Wong	Deputy Regional Crown Counsel	Province of British Columbia	$190,606
25	Richard de Boer	Dir Policy & Legislation	Province of British Columbia	$190,604

British Columbia Sunshine List 2013 (FY 2012-13)

Highest-paid public-sector employees in British Columbia, 2013

2013 compensation by sector

Largest employers on the 2013 list

Other years