Rob Ford earned $173,869 including taxable benefits in 2012
Each year, Queen’s Park releases the sunshine list, a catalogue of all the Ontario public servants who made $100,000 or more—and, because the $100,000 threshold hasn’t changed since the list’s inception in 1996, that exalted group now contains nearly 88,412 members. (Were the benchmark tied to inflation, it would now be over $139,000, cutting the list to about 18,000 people.) Since most people have better things to do this long weekend than sift through tens of thousands of names, we put together this cheat sheet of 2012’s most high-profile recipients of public largesse.
A tip for the next time our provincial lottery finds itself walking around yelling “Anybody think they’re owed millions of dollars?”: hire a call centre first. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has found itself handling more than 20 times the usual number of calls ever since it and the OPP announced that a family running a Burlington convenience store had illegally claimed a winning ticket. 
