NDP Leader Andrea Horwath wants to skin the fat cats on the public payroll.

Horwath, who has long crusaded for a hard cap on the salaries of public officials, will introduce a private member’s bill Thursday that would limit taxpayer-funded executive compensation to $418,000 a year.

That figure is twice the $209,000 salary of Premier Kathleen Wynne.

“When a public sector CEO takes home more in a year than the average family earns in two decades, people feel like their money isn’t being respected,” the NDP leader told a Queen’s Park news conference Wednesday.

She was apparently referring to Ontario Power Generation CEO Tom Mitchell, who made $1.7 million last year for running the massive provincial electricity utility.

But when it was pointed out that very few people in the world have Mitchell’s expertise, Howarth emphasized the cap would be applied on a “case-by-case” basis so executives with highly specialized skill may not be affected.

Doctors would not be included in the measure.

It’s estimated only 180 public-sector executives would be impacted, including some hospital CEOs and other health-care high-rollers so the annual savings of perhaps $20 million would be largely symbolic.

Minister of Government Services John Milloy noted the minority Liberal government’s most recent budget, which was supported by the NDP, “committed to examining additional measures to manage compensation costs, including considering hard caps.”

“That examination is underway and we will implement new measures in the coming months,” Milloy said in a statement.

“Managing public sector compensation is an important part of our plan to control costs and protect front-line government services that Ontario families rely on,” he said.

“We froze salaries for executives at hospitals, universities, colleges, school boards and provincially owned electricity companies. All aspects of compensation plans are frozen, and base salaries cannot be increased.”

Milloy also pointed out MPPs, whose base pay is $116,500, has been frozen for five years.