When Does the Sunshine List Come Out?
Seven provinces publicly disclose public-sector salaries, each on its own schedule. Ontario opens the season in late March; Alberta and Newfoundland & Labrador follow in June; BC, Manitoba, and New Brunswick publish with their Public Accounts in late summer and fall; Saskatchewan closes the year in late October. Here is the full calendar, what each disclosure covers, and where to explore it the day it lands.
| Province | Typical release | Covers | Threshold | Latest on this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario | Late March | the prior calendar year | $100,000+ | 2025 |
| Newfoundland & Labrador | Late June | the most recent completed year | $100,000+ | 2025 |
| Alberta | Late June (fills in over weeks) | the prior calendar year | $125,000+ | 2025 (publishing now) |
| British Columbia | Late summer – fall | the fiscal year ending March 31 | $75,000+ | 2025 |
| Manitoba | Fall (September–October) | the prior calendar year | $85,000+ | 2024 |
| New Brunswick | Fall (September–October) | the prior calendar year | $80,000+ | 2025 |
| Saskatchewan | Late October | the fiscal year ending March 31 | $50,000+ | 2025 |
Ontario: late march
Ontario has published its Public Sector Salary Disclosure every spring since 1996 — the original "Sunshine List." The list for a given calendar year is released near the end of the following March (the 2025 list arrived March 27, 2026), covering every Ontario public-sector employee who earned $100,000 or more.
Newfoundland & Labrador: late june
Newfoundland & Labrador's Compensation Disclosure is published each summer, typically in late June. It breaks compensation into base salary, overtime, bonuses, severance, and other pay for employees above the $100,000 threshold.
Explore the Newfoundland & Labrador compensation disclosure·Newfoundland & Labrador 2025
Alberta: late june (fills in over weeks)
Alberta's Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act disclosure is due each June 30 for the prior calendar year. Agencies, boards, and commissions post individually, so the list fills in over several weeks — our Alberta year tracker follows the release live as employers report.
Explore the Alberta compensation disclosure·Alberta 2025 tracker
British Columbia: late summer – fall
BC's core-government salary schedules ($75,000+) are published with the provincial Public Accounts in late summer. Executive-compensation disclosures and the public bodies' Financial Information Act schedules (school districts, health authorities) follow through the fall. All cover the fiscal year that ended March 31.
Explore the British Columbia compensation disclosure·British Columbia 2025
Manitoba: fall (september–october)
Manitoba's Public Sector Compensation Disclosure is published alongside the province's fall Public Accounts, typically September–October, listing employees above the $85,000 threshold for the prior calendar year.
New Brunswick: fall (september–october)
New Brunswick's Employee Salaries disclosure is released with the fall Public Accounts. Salaries are disclosed in $25,000 bands rather than exact figures, for employees who earned $80,000 or more in the prior calendar year.
Explore the New Brunswick salary disclosure·New Brunswick 2025
Saskatchewan: late october
Saskatchewan's Crown-sector Payee Disclosure Report is tabled with the Standing Committee on Crown and Central Agencies in late October each year (October 26–31 in recent years). It covers CIC Crown corporations — SaskPower, SaskTel, SGI, SaskEnergy and others — for the fiscal year that ended March 31.
Why isn’t there a federal sunshine list?
The federal government does not publish a named salary disclosure — federal pay is disclosed only in aggregate, so there is no Canada-wide sunshine list to link to. Quebec, Nova Scotia, and PEI likewise do not disclose individual names. The seven provinces above are the complete set of named public-sector salary disclosures in Canada, and all of them are searchable here.