Public Salaries
MSP payment · 2016

British Columbia Doctors' MSP Payments 2016

Salaries paid in the fiscal year ending in 2016, published in 2016 (the list often called the Doctors' MSP Payments). 10,826 people. Fiscal years ending March 31 (2025 is April 2024 to March 2025). Gross payments, before the practice costs practitioners pay from them: not salaries.

People on the list
10,826
+2.8% vs 2015
Median payment
$211,798
+0.6% vs 2015
Total payments
$2.8B
Employers
1

Top 100 highest paid in 2016

#NameGross paymentsChange
1Dharminder Singh Dhanda$3,306,401−$57,580 (−1.7%)
2Leah Arin Wittenberg$3,226,079+$131,614 (+4.3%)
3Hugh MacPherson Parsons$3,059,969+$186,063 (+6.5%)
4David Andrew Albiani$2,964,648+$444,711 (+17.6%)
5Simon Rock Lam$2,719,050+$180,271 (+7.1%)
6Andrew William Kirker$2,620,699+$292,348 (+12.6%)
7Patrick Eugene Ma$2,604,659+$647,552 (+33.1%)
8Derek Vivek Godinho$2,465,444+$117,557 (+5.0%)
9Andrew Brian Merkur$2,378,403+$48,690 (+2.1%)
10Lica Chui$2,107,522+$271,498 (+14.8%)
11David Alan Heinrichs$2,051,046+$114,918 (+5.9%)
12Steve Daniel Levasseur$2,000,978+$1,642,205 (+457.7%)
13Tirath Gosal-Sadhra$1,981,337−$14,299 (−0.7%)
14Gabriel Chu$1,954,893+$192,914 (+10.9%)
15Hugo F. S. Sutton$1,953,085−$138,529 (−6.6%)
16Hussein Hollands$1,920,777+$390,991 (+25.6%)
17Francis Chi Hung Law$1,894,670+$163,929 (+9.5%)
18Peter Mark Hopp$1,860,621+$223,386 (+13.6%)
19Kevin Michael Ramsey$1,859,758+$376,649 (+25.4%)
20Zakaria Tadrous$1,838,477+$123,392 (+7.2%)
21Michael Thomas Walter Butler$1,831,407+$707,857 (+63.0%)
22Saul Hillel Isserow$1,828,912+$223,336 (+13.9%)
23Murray John Erasmus$1,820,545+$56,890 (+3.2%)
24Sajal Jain$1,820,067+$77,303 (+4.4%)
25Yau Woon Edward Yu$1,805,648+$231,842 (+14.7%)
26David Rex Socrates Neima$1,756,820+$192,759 (+12.3%)
27Wouter De Bruin$1,729,344+$50,635 (+3.0%)
28Elizabeth Joan Hay$1,706,484+$304,107 (+21.7%)
29Pierre Faber$1,681,166−$37,861 (−2.2%)
30Kurt Taro Tsuyuki$1,660,566+$87,526 (+5.6%)
31James Martin McCarthy$1,613,320+$17,593 (+1.1%)
32Naser Sayeh$1,543,734+$240,092 (+18.4%)
33Malvinder Singh Hoonjan$1,524,549+$243,452 (+19.0%)
34Stanley Glenn Shortt$1,518,294+$130,154 (+9.4%)
35Johannes Petrus Claasen$1,494,938+$56,760 (+3.9%)
36Darren Behn$1,468,801+$489,332 (+50.0%)
37William H. Ross$1,424,482−$118,702 (−7.7%)
38Carolyn Kim Anderson$1,405,625+$226,316 (+19.2%)
39Manjeet Mann$1,381,814+$128,281 (+10.2%)
40Peter Zakrzewski$1,378,816+$64,026 (+4.9%)
41Peter Jelfimow$1,372,554+$211,378 (+18.2%)
42Navraj Singh Heran$1,364,565−$101,801 (−6.9%)
43Jeffrey Alan Blicker$1,359,930+$88,809 (+7.0%)
44Jahangir Hajimohammed Charania$1,358,076−$181,740 (−11.8%)
45Winston Tsui$1,352,385+$139,062 (+11.5%)
46Christopher Goddard$1,350,512−$55,210 (−3.9%)
47Charalambos Andreou$1,341,081−$4,288 (−0.3%)
48Michael Berman$1,333,164+$49,420 (+3.8%)
49A. Lambert Maberley$1,330,659+$218,993 (+19.7%)
50Aditya Seth$1,325,476+$271,853 (+25.8%)
51Bryce John Cowan$1,319,046−$15,749 (−1.2%)
52Haidar Mohammed Hadi$1,314,805+$69,983 (+5.6%)
53Cory Lorn Ramstead$1,312,436+$253,236 (+23.9%)
54Richard R. Mildenberger$1,305,455+$235,488 (+22.0%)
55Anthony Yiu-Fai Fung$1,304,173+$197,691 (+17.9%)
56Thomas A. Demco$1,294,177+$60,677 (+4.9%)
57Richard Chi-Wing Chan$1,278,548+$60,132 (+4.9%)
58Victor De Sousa Pegado$1,274,191+$166,629 (+15.0%)
59Brett Gregory Heilbron$1,257,984+$104,172 (+9.0%)
60Kevin John Pistawka$1,256,443+$135,481 (+12.1%)
61John Arthur Warner$1,256,005−$100,833 (−7.4%)
62David A. L. Maberley$1,255,641−$805,720 (−39.1%)
63Christopher Sandor Pollock$1,251,687+$233,248 (+22.9%)
64David Alexander Wood$1,249,070+$49,799 (+4.2%)
65William H. Johnston$1,246,401+$27,060 (+2.2%)
66Andrew Dennis Lukaris$1,236,066+$177,840 (+16.8%)
67Michael Joseph Boyd$1,213,665+$159,625 (+15.1%)
68Ronald George Cridland$1,212,568+$12,942 (+1.1%)
69Tung Minh Diep$1,181,454−$737,406 (−38.4%)
70Roberto L. Piemontesi$1,179,084−$223,080 (−15.9%)
71Donald W. Anderson$1,176,552−$6,732 (−0.6%)
72Rajesh Rai Mainra$1,167,559+$128,909 (+12.4%)
73Victor Kevin Wong$1,165,227+$59,889 (+5.4%)
74Eduardo Vitor Navajas$1,163,927+$986,330 (+555.4%)
75Harpreet Kaler$1,163,482+$254,345 (+28.0%)
76Gary Bernard Bloomberg$1,162,190−$103,152 (−8.2%)
77Hamza Naseer Khan$1,154,802+$143,639 (+14.2%)
78Razi Azhar Khan$1,137,873+$478,526 (+72.6%)
79Jason Jeffrey Cherry$1,134,635+$61,277 (+5.7%)
80Teresa S. M. Tsang$1,134,346+$162,560 (+16.7%)
81Olivia Mayin Dam$1,126,748+$432,275 (+62.2%)
82Roger Karl Philipp$1,123,025+$44,395 (+4.1%)
83Neil Kevin Wade$1,117,590+$212,302 (+23.5%)
84Aron Tischler$1,116,984−$58,536 (−5.0%)
85David M. Thompson$1,114,807new
86Tharwat Abd Elwhab Fera$1,106,586−$3,051 (−0.3%)
87Eric Bertrand Fretz$1,097,764−$563,172 (−33.9%)
88Nader Hassan Elmayergi$1,092,189+$84,185 (+8.4%)
89Frank Allan Halperin$1,090,906−$23,601 (−2.1%)
90Barend Nathan Zack$1,088,820−$29,133 (−2.6%)
91Vincent Anthony Wong$1,084,294+$112,947 (+11.6%)
92Li Ming Huang$1,076,414−$65,949 (−5.8%)
93Simon Paul Holland$1,074,660−$46,676 (−4.2%)
94Harjinder Singh Dhaliwal$1,068,636+$28,703 (+2.8%)
95Sonia Niki Yeung$1,063,263+$114,187 (+12.0%)
96Andrew Han Yu$1,060,445+$210,020 (+24.7%)
97Jacqueline Saw$1,058,290+$39,872 (+3.9%)
98Kevin David Clarke$1,057,134+$113,097 (+12.0%)
99Glen Graham Hoar$1,052,608+$88,152 (+9.1%)
100Kamyar Mohaseb$1,051,859+$60,221 (+6.1%)

Questions and answers

How many people were on the 2016 Doctors' MSP Payments?

10,826 people paid $25,000 or more in 2016, +2.8% on 2015 (10,528 people).

Who was the highest paid on the 2016 list?

Dharminder Singh Dhanda, at Medical Services Plan, with a salary of $3,306,401.

What was the median payment on the 2016 list?

$211,798, +0.6% on 2015. It is the median of people paid $25,000 or more, not of every public employee.

When was the 2016 Doctors' MSP Payments released?

In 2016. Each list covers the salaries paid in one year and is published after it ends.

What is “gross payments”?

Gross payments for insured services in the fiscal year, as the Medical Services Commission publishes them, before the practice costs (staff, rent, equipment) practitioners pay from them: not a salary or take-home pay. How the lists work

Why is someone not on the list?

Only people paid $25,000 or more in the year are listed, for insured services MSP paid for. Someone paid less that year, or working elsewhere, does not appear.