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A staggering amount of Ontario Power Generation employees appeared on the province’s 2016 sunshine list, with more than 7,600 employees earning more than $100,000 a year, far more than any other public employer.

The crown corporation also dominated the list in another major way: President and CEO Tom Mitchell earned the highest amount out of the more than 115,000 public employees on the list, making $1,595,310.62 in total compensation. That’s slightly less than the $1,563,093.80 Mitchell pulled in 2014 and the more than $1.7 million he took in in 2013.

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In all, the sunshine list tracked 115,431 public salaries above $100,000 in 2015, compared to 111,440 in 2014. The combined yearly salaries total more than $14.8 billion.

The exclusion of Hydro One is likely why the growth of the list slowed slightly over 2014, when Hydro One took up 4,349 Hydro One spots on the list. The New Democrats argued that the removal smacks of a lack of transparency.