City's top bureaucrat, CAO Ed Archer, tops local the list, paid $271K in 2019

Greater Sudbury CAO and the city's police chief top the 2019 Sunshine List of local public sector workers making more than $100,000 a year.

CAO Ed Archer was paid $271,221 in 2019, while Greater Sudbury Police Chief Paul Pedersen was paid $252,887.

Rounding out the top five in Greater Sudbury, the third highest paid staffer was Luc Soenens, a fire services technician with Greater Sudbury Fire Services, who was paid $242,585; fourth highest Tony Cecutti, the city's GM of growth and infrastructure, who was paid $223,111; and Kevin Fowke, the GM of corporate services, who was paid $221,835.

In total, the City of Greater Sudbury had 527 people on the Sunshine List this year. Of those, 150 are direct city staff, while 375 work in emergency services fields: police, fire and paramedics.

Mayor Brian Bigger was paid $170,619, good enough for No. 19 on the list of 527.

The payroll total for municipal employees on the Sunshine List is $63,598,717.

"Our government's priority is the health and safety of all Ontarians and we are singularly focused on our response to the COVID-19 pandemic," said Peter Bethlenfalvy, president of the Treasury Board, in a news release. "However, our government has also made commitments to the people of Ontario on transparency, accountability and respecting their tax dollars."

The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996 requires organizations that receive public funding from the province to make public, by March 31 each year, the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $100,000 or more in the previous calendar year.

The act applies to the provincial government, Crown agencies and corporations, Ontario Power Generation and subsidiaries, publicly funded organizations such as hospitals, municipalities, school boards, universities and colleges, and not-for-profit organizations that receive $1 million or more, or receive between $120,000 and $1 million if the funding they receive is 10 per cent or more of their gross revenues.