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Top executives from the Alberta Electric System Operator, Workers’ Compensation Board of Alberta and Alberta Energy Regulator were the best paid members of the province’s public sector last year.

That’s according to the 2017 “sunshine list” for Alberta’s boards, agencies and commissions, which were required to disclose the compensation information of their top earning employees by June 30.

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According to provincial rules, the threshold to be included on the sunshine list this year climbed to $127,765 in total compensation, including salary, cash benefits and non-cash benefits.

Besides the three top executives, the highest echelons of the list include the presidents of the University of Alberta and University of Calgary, along with a handful of health leaders.

The list also discloses significant severance payments, the biggest of which was a $540,000 payout to Brent Quinton, MacEwan University’s former vice-president of finance and administration.