Sunshine List: 10 top-paid public sector workers in Windsor-Essex

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Last year, more than 7,500 public sector workers in Windsor-Essex paid at least $100,000.

This was released on Friday based on the 2024 Sunshine List (more formally known as Ontario’s annual public sector salary disclosure).

The income threshold for the list has been set to Ontario’s highest earning public employees since 1996, and has not changed in the past 29 years.

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The list continues to grow significantly every year due to no adjustment to inflation. Last year, more than 6,000 local workers laid off their jobs.

Here are the 10 highest-paid public sector employees in Windsor and Essex:

Name	employer	Location	Salary in 2024
David Musyj	Windsor Regional Hospital	President and CEO	$465,369.48	$11,472.33
Robert Gordon	University of Windsor	president	$432,465.82	$14,653.56
Bill Marra	Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare	President and CEO	$368,972.70	$10,668.19
Karen Riddell	Windsor Regional Hospital	Acting President and CEO	$362,523.43	$8,186.88
Garry Rossi	real	President and CEO	$333,598.00	$13,296.00
Joe Mancina	Windsor City	CAO	$320,450.87	$14,300.89
Michael Silvaggi	St. Clair College	president	$316,826.97	$605.94
Christine Kennedy	Yili Coast Healthcare	President and CEO	$315,991.26	$1,033.20
Wassim Supply	Windsor Regional Hospital	chief of staff	$309,366.30	$2,096.94
Robert Aguirre	University of Windsor	Provost and Vice-Chairman	$302,750.00	$1,288.32

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The top ten is now retired St. Clair College president Patti France, who received $231.96 in taxable benefits last year for $300,246.85. France retired in May.

Mehrdad Saif, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Windsor, made $300,053.25 and a taxable benefit of $920.16.

Ontario’s Public Sector Payroll Disclosure Act applies to royal institutions, municipalities, hospitals, public health boards, school boards, universities and colleges, and other public sector employers who receive substantial funds from the provincial government.

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