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The number of ICBC employees earning more than $150,000 a year jumped between 2016 and 2019 as the beleaguered public insurer continues to bleed red ink and many drivers are getting charged higher premiums.

According to ICBC’s 2019 statement and schedules of financial information released Monday, there were 93 employees making $150,000 or more a year in the 2018-19 fiscal year ending March 31, 2019.

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That’s almost double the 47 employees earning that range from January to December 2016, but significantly less than the 147 people who met the salary threshold in 2017-18 (ICBC transitioned from a year-end calendar to a March 31 fiscal year-end in 2016).

ICBC employees who make $200,000 a year or more followed a similar pattern, jumping from 11 in 2016, peaking to 32 in 2017-18, then dipping to 21 in 2018-19.

The opposition Liberals are pinning the “offensive” increase on the NDP government, comparing figures from January to December 2016 — the last full year the Liberals were in power — to the 2018-19 figures.