About the BC Sunshine List

Published by the Government of British Columbia under the Financial Information Act

What data is shown here?

This site combines three British Columbia public compensation disclosures, all required by law:

1. BC Public Accounts — Core Government Employees ($75,000+). Published under the Financial Information Act, this is the detailed schedule of payments from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) titled "Other Employees." It lists every provincial ministry employee paid directly from the CRF who earned $75,000 or more in the fiscal year.
2. Public Sector Executive Compensation Disclosures. Published under the Public Sector Employers Act, this covers the CEO and top-four highest-paid executives ("Named Executive Officers") at every BC public sector body: crown corporations, universities, colleges, health authorities, school districts, and agencies.
3. School District Statements of Financial Information (SOFIs). Each of BC's 60 school districts publishes its own SOFI under the Financial Information Act, listing every employee earning over $75,000 (not just executives). For the most recent fiscal year we have parsed roughly 21,000 employee records across the school districts that publish machine-readable PDFs — see the coverage caveat below.

Both disclosures are made on a fiscal year basis (April 1 – March 31 for most employers; July 1 – June 30 for school districts). On this site, a record dated "FY 2024-25" covers the year ending in 2025.

Who is included — and who is not

Included:

• All core BC government (ministry) employees earning $75,000+
• CEO + top 4 executives at all crown corporations (BC Hydro, ICBC, WorkSafeBC, BC Lottery, BC Ferries, etc.)
• CEO + top 4 executives at universities (UBC, SFU, UVic, BCIT, etc.)
• CEO + top 4 executives at all 60 BC school districts
• All school district employees over $75,000 (not just executives) at districts whose SOFIs we have parsed — see caveat below
• CEO + top 4 executives at health authorities (Fraser Health, VCH, PHSA, etc.)
• CEO + top 4 executives at colleges and public sector agencies

School-district SOFI coverage caveat. We currently parse SOFI PDFs for roughly 26 of the 60 BC school districts in the most recent fiscal year (covering the largest urban districts including Surrey, Coquitlam, Burnaby, Greater Victoria, Abbotsford, and Central Okanagan). The remaining districts publish either scanned image PDFs requiring OCR, idiosyncratic table layouts, or no public PDF at all — Vancouver SD39 is currently a notable miss. We expand coverage as parsers are added.

Not yet included: non-executive employees ($75K+) at crown corporations, universities, and health authorities. Each body publishes its own SOFI separately under the FIA — typically as a standalone PDF, sometimes behind a bot challenge. Integrating those hundreds of separate reports is planned future work.

Also not included: municipalities and police forces, which publish their own SOFIs separately.

What compensation is reported?

CRF Other Employees schedule (core government): only gross salary (remuneration) is reported. Expense reimbursements are published in a separate schedule not included here.

Executive Compensation Disclosures: base salary plus incentive compensation, benefits, pension, and "other" amounts, summed to total compensation. This is why some executive total amounts are meaningfully higher than base salary.

Coverage

Core government (CRF): fiscal years ending 2011 through 2025 (15 years). Executive disclosures (PSEC): fiscal years ending 2017 through 2025 (9 years). Earlier PSEC filings exist on the BC government portal but use a legacy HTML layout without machine-readable sector metadata; those are not yet parsed.

About This Site

This site is an independent tool for searching and exploring BC's public sector compensation data. It is not affiliated with the Government of British Columbia. The data is sourced directly from three official BC government disclosures:

• BC Data Catalogue — Public Accounts Other Employees (core government CRF schedule)
• BC Public Sector Executive Compensation Disclosures (PSEC)
• BC school district Statements of Financial Information (SOFIs) published by each school district under the Financial Information Act

We refresh the data when new fiscal years are released.

This site also hosts Ontario Sunshine List data, Alberta compensation data, Manitoba compensation data, and Newfoundland & Labrador compensation data.