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Four employees involved in CBC broadcasts earn more than $300,000 a year, taking home on average about $485,667 annually in total compensation. But the public broadcaster won’t identify who they are.

The numbers are contained in a document sent to a Senate committee that is studying the challenges facing the CBC. The document includes the salary ranges and total compensation ranges for upper management, as well as how much those executives could earn in the private sector.

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Those four make up less than 1% of the 1,286 on-air personnel at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Radio-Canada, as of April 1. About 83% of on-air talent at Canada’s public broadcaster earn less than $100,000, not including overtime.

Before senators on the committee saw the documents, the CBC posted the information to its website. The website says compensation, which is beyond what unions have negotiated, is based on multiple issues, and is “the middle range” of what is offered by “comparable Canadian companies” and “a selection of Crown corporations.”