Basking in the Sunshine

The 2010 Sunshine List is out. This is the list of all the Ontario public sector employees who earned more than $100,000 in 2010. There are quite a few of them!

Of course, our primary interest is the school board employees, the list of which can be found here. This year, there are not quite 9,000 education sunshiners listed (more will follow, since addenda are always published later in the year listing the late-filers). In 2003, when the present Ontario government took office, there were 788 sunshiners. Over the same period, student enrollment fell from just under 2 million to about 1.9 million, a loss of about 100,000 students. In 2003, there were about 2,500 students for every well-paid bureaucrat, but by 2010 there were only about 200 students per well-paid bureaucrat. 

At this rate, every student will soon have his or her very own well-paid bureaucrat. And that's not an April Fool's joke!

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