NB Employee Salaries

About the New Brunswick Sunshine List

Published annually by the Government of New Brunswick in the Province's Public Accounts

What is the Employee Salaries disclosure?

Each year the Government of New Brunswick publishes an “Employee Salaries” list as part of its Public Accounts. It names public sector employees whose salary reached a disclosure threshold, alongside their department or employer. Unlike a colloquial “sunshine list” of exact salaries, New Brunswick reports each person's salary as a $25,000 range (for example, $100,000–$124,999).

The salary threshold has changed once over the years published here:

  • 2020: $60,000 or more
  • 2021 onwards: $80,000 or more

Because of this change, year-over-year record counts before and after 2021 are not directly comparable. The drop in the count after 2020 reflects the higher threshold, not employees disappearing or pay falling.

Who is included?

The disclosure spans most of New Brunswick's public sector. It covers employees of:

  • The core Government of New Brunswick (departments and ministries)
  • The Legislative Assembly — including cabinet ministers and MLAs, listed with their ministerial salary and indemnity
  • The regional health authorities (Horizon Health Network and Vitalité Health Network) and Ambulance New Brunswick
  • Crown corporations (NB Power, NB Liquor, Cannabis NB, and others)
  • The Anglophone and Francophone school districts
  • The public colleges (NBCC and CCNB)

Each disclosed record includes the employee's name, employer, sector, job title (where published), and salary band for the reporting period.

How are salaries reported?

New Brunswick discloses each employee's salary as a $25,000 band rather than an exact figure. For each person we show the disclosed band exactly as published (for example, $100,000–$124,999) — never a single number that could be mistaken for their exact pay. Behind the scenes, the band's midpoint is used to rank, sort, and average the data, so the sector and yearly averages, totals, and charts are approximate. (Cabinet ministers and MLAs are the exception: they disclose exact dollar amounts, which we show as exact figures.)

The salary figure does not include the employer-paid portion of pension contributions, health and dental benefits, or other non-taxable benefits. Severance, retirement allowances, travel, and car allowances — which New Brunswick discloses as separate line items — are not folded into the salary shown here.

About this site

This site is an independent tool for searching and exploring New Brunswick's annual employee salaries disclosure. It is not affiliated with the Government of New Brunswick. Data is sourced from the Province's Employee Salaries disclosure in the Public Accounts and updated when new years are released.

This site also hosts compensation data for Ontario, Newfoundland & Labrador, Alberta, British Columbia, and Manitoba.