All Alberta government employees who earn more than $100,000 in base pay annually will soon have their salaries disclosed as the province publishes a “sunshine list” on civil service compensation.

By the end of January, the province will create an online list showing compensation for government employees in 2012 and 2013, including their salaries and other benefits.

In the cases of workers with an employment contract, their termination agreement — including severance — will also be made public.

“We continue to take concrete steps to proactively and routinely disclose information that is of public interest,” Don Scott, Alberta’s associate minister of accountability, transparency and transformation, said in a statement.

The province says its various agencies, boards and commissions — such as Alberta Health Services — “will be expected to adopt a similar policy for their organizations.”

In future years, all salary amounts will be posted online in June and December, with the $100,000 trigger point for publication adjusted annual based on inflation.

“The guidelines presented today are a big win for taxpayers,” Derek Fildebrandt of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which had been pressing for the information, said in a statement.

British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario already have so-called sunshine lists in place that detail salaries, benefits and other compensation.

Alberta’s disclosure plan comes on the heels of controversy earlier this year surrounding severance payments made to senior members in Premier Alison Redford’s office.

In May, the Herald revealed more than $2.1 million in severance had been given to departing members of the premier’s senior staff over the past three years, but the government wouldn’t say who received the payments or how much they each collected.

In October, the premier’s former chief of staff Stephen Carter confirmed he received $130,000 in severance after leaving the job in 2012 — information the government had fought for months to keep private from freedom of information requests.