Salary disclosure · 2007

British Columbia Sunshine List 2007

Salaries paid in the fiscal year ending in 2007, published in 2007 (the list often called the Sunshine List). 4,538 people at 1 employers. Years are fiscal years ending March 31 (2026 is April 2025 to March 2026), and the list covers the BC Public Service (the ministries).

People on the list

4,538

Median salary

$85,070

Total salaries

$405M

Employers

Top 100 highest paid in 2007

#	Name	Employer	Salary
1	CHARLES SUN	BC Public Service	$266,718
2	William Lakey	BC Public Service	$262,950
3	Colin V Smith	BC Public Service	$236,401
4	JAMES CHRISTENSON	BC Public Service	$204,824
5	Robert D Adamson	BC Public Service	$202,129
6	Robert Fisk	BC Public Service	$194,164
7	ROSS HALLAWAY	BC Public Service	$186,567
8	Ross P Casey	BC Public Service	$180,195
9	Trevor Hancock	BC Public Service	$172,588
10	Henry J R Reiner	BC Public Service	$171,059
11	Ferdinand Platteel	BC Public Service	$168,167
12	Ken H Baker	BC Public Service	$166,501
13	Derrill Prevett	BC Public Service	$166,380
14	KAREN WANGER	BC Public Service	$163,633
15	Errol S Price	BC Public Service	$162,987
16	RICHARD W CAIRNS	BC Public Service	$162,361
17	Lorne Verhulst	BC Public Service	$157,866
18	Michael S Petrie	BC Public Service	$156,757
19	Mike A Proudfoot	BC Public Service	$156,540
20	Joseph Bellows	BC Public Service	$154,965
21	Robert H Wright	BC Public Service	$153,469
22	JAY CHALKE	BC Public Service	$153,151
23	KARAMJIT LALLI	BC Public Service	$149,564
24	George Copley	BC Public Service	$149,332
25	Barry D Anderson	BC Public Service	$149,100
26	MALCOLM FYFE WILLIAMSON	BC Public Service	$146,659
27	Gerald R German	BC Public Service	$144,802
28	Henry Douglas Phillips	BC Public Service	$143,020
29	Raymond A Perron	BC Public Service	$142,609
30	Susan Conroy	BC Public Service	$141,144
31	Abram Karrel	BC Public Service	$140,946
32	John M Gordon	BC Public Service	$140,748
33	M. Len Romanow	BC Public Service	$140,213
34	Alexander G Budlovsky	BC Public Service	$140,169
35	Timothy P Leadem	BC Public Service	$140,128
36	Elisabeth A Burgess	BC Public Service	$139,995
37	Spencer Scott Van Alstine	BC Public Service	$139,943
38	Michael Fulmer	BC Public Service	$139,881
39	Douglas M Williscroft	BC Public Service	$139,808
40	Grant Leblanc	BC Public Service	$139,779
41	Gordon Houston	BC Public Service	$139,675
42	George L. McKay	BC Public Service	$139,333
43	J Ray Hall	BC Public Service	$139,220
44	Robert Vick Farley	BC Public Service	$139,138
45	Stephen R Harrison	BC Public Service	$139,041
46	Susan O Risby	BC Public Service	$138,965
47	Nancy E Brown	BC Public Service	$138,892
48	Richard Fyfe	BC Public Service	$138,878
49	Elizabeth J Argall	BC Public Service	$138,870
50	Monty J Carstairs	BC Public Service	$138,870
51	Sandra A Cunningham	BC Public Service	$138,870
52	Wendy Dawson	BC Public Service	$138,870
53	Richard de Boer	BC Public Service	$138,870
54	Gregory J Fitch	BC Public Service	$138,870
55	Geoffrey R Gaul	BC Public Service	$138,870
56	Melissa A Gillespie	BC Public Service	$138,870
57	Catherine Hunt	BC Public Service	$138,870
58	PAUL JARMAN	BC Public Service	$138,870
59	Paige L Johnstone	BC Public Service	$138,870
60	Glenn S Kelt	BC Public Service	$138,870
61	Oleh S Kuzma	BC Public Service	$138,870
62	Michael R Luchenko	BC Public Service	$138,870
63	Tom MacLachlan	BC Public Service	$138,870
64	Geoffrey Moyse	BC Public Service	$138,870
65	Jeffrey Pottinger	BC Public Service	$138,870
66	Jennifer Power	BC Public Service	$138,870
67	Terence Schultes	BC Public Service	$138,870
68	GREG WEBER	BC Public Service	$138,870
69	Lisa Cowan	BC Public Service	$138,668
70	C Geoffrey Baragar	BC Public Service	$137,508
71	Mark K Levitz	BC Public Service	$137,099
72	Michael Shepherd	BC Public Service	$136,210
73	Kenneth Downing	BC Public Service	$136,209
74	Elizabeth King	BC Public Service	$136,209
75	William D Pike	BC Public Service	$136,209
76	Frances Statham	BC Public Service	$136,209
77	MALCOLM BIDDLE	BC Public Service	$135,943
78	Craig M Dykes	BC Public Service	$134,523
79	George Faddis	BC Public Service	$133,741
80	Wendy M Stephen	BC Public Service	$133,536
81	James M McAllister	BC Public Service	$133,324
82	R BAIRD	BC Public Service	$132,010
83	Chris Hauff	BC Public Service	$131,999
84	Dianne Flood	BC Public Service	$131,691
85	Fiona M St. Clair	BC Public Service	$131,633
86	KEITH KOZAK	BC Public Service	$131,103
87	Steven A Smith	BC Public Service	$130,528
88	ANDREW BROWNLOW	BC Public Service	$130,243
89	Clyde E Macdonald	BC Public Service	$129,760
90	Peter Stabler	BC Public Service	$128,957
91	HOWARD PEET	BC Public Service	$128,686
92	William G Gibson	BC Public Service	$128,636
93	Lorne S Fisher	BC Public Service	$128,572
94	Colin I Magee	BC Public Service	$128,509
95	ROBERT WAND	BC Public Service	$128,449
96	Keith Kinash	BC Public Service	$127,767
97	John Ahern	BC Public Service	$127,444
98	Sheila L. Smith	BC Public Service	$127,030
99	Pat G Taylor	BC Public Service	$126,291
100	Rodney H Hawkins	BC Public Service	$125,938

By sector

Sector	People	Median	Highest
Public service	4,538	$85,070	$266,718

Largest employers

All employers

Employer	People	Median	Total
BC Public Service	4,538	$85,070	$405M

Questions and answers

How many people were on the 2007 Sunshine List?

4,538 people paid $75,000 or more in 2007, at 1 employers.

Who was the highest paid on the 2007 list?

CHARLES SUN, at BC Public Service, with a salary of $266,718.

What was the median salary on the 2007 list?

$85,070. It is the median of people paid $75,000 or more, not of every public employee.

Which sector had the most people on the list in 2007?

Public service, with 4,538 people (median $85,070).

Which employer had the most people on the list in 2007?

BC Public Service, with 4,538 people.

When was the 2007 Sunshine List released?

In 2007. Each list covers the salaries paid in one year and is published after it ends.

What is “gross salary”?

The one pay figure British Columbia publishes for each person for the fiscal year, shown as published. British Columbia does not publish taxable benefits separately, so none are shown. How the lists work

Why is someone not on the list?

Only people paid $75,000 or more in the year are listed, and only by the public employers the Financial Information Act covers. Someone paid less that year, or working elsewhere, does not appear.