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. Statements of Financial Information (SOFIs). Each BC public body publishes its own SOFI under the Financial Information Act, listing every employee earning over $75,000 (not just executives). We parse these standalone PDFs for most school districts, the health authorities, the major universities (UBC, SFU, UVic, BCIT), and the largest crown corporations (BC Hydro and its subsidiaries, ICBC, WorkSafeBC, the Liquor Distribution Branch, BCLC, BC Transit, and BC Housing) — over 100,000 employee records in the most recent fiscal year. See the coverage caveats below.

These disclosures are made on a fiscal year basis (April 1 – March 31 for most employers; July 1 – June 30 for school districts; WorkSafeBC reports on the calendar year). 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+
• All employees over $75,000 at major crown corporations: BC Hydro (with Powerex, Powertech, and Columbia Hydro Constructors), ICBC, WorkSafeBC, the Liquor Distribution Branch, BCLC, BC Transit, and BC Housing
• All employees over $75,000 at UBC, SFU, UVic, and BCIT
• All employees over $75,000 at six of the seven health authorities (Interior, Northern, Island, Vancouver Coastal, Providence, and PHSA)
• All employees over $75,000 at school districts whose SOFIs we have parsed — see caveat below
• CEO + top 4 executives ("Named Executive Officers") at every other BC public sector body: remaining crown corporations (e.g. BC Ferries), colleges, agencies, and all 60 school districts

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 at Fraser Health (its full employee schedule joins as soon as its latest SOFI is published — earlier years exist but would lag the rest of the site), and non-executive employees at the smaller crown corporations, colleges, and agencies whose SOFIs we have not yet integrated. Those bodies currently appear with executives only.

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.

SOFI employee schedules (school districts, health authorities, universities, crown corporations): total remuneration only, with no salary/benefits breakdown. Expense reimbursements are published in a separate column not included here.

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.