With all the fuss about the so-called Sunshine List, maybe it is worth taking some time to have a look at some of the information we already have, thanks to Statistics Canada (CANSIM 111-0008)
In 2004, 396,050 people in the province reported an income. 6,500 of them made $100,000 or more. That's 1.6%.*
1,010 of them were women, which works out to zero point two percent of all people with incomes. That leaves about 1.4% (5,490), namely the men, who earned more than $100,000 in 2004. Women made up 15.5% of the people who made more than $100,000.
Now flip ahead to 2014. The number of people with incomes grew by 6% (25,100) but the number of folks making more than $100,000 grew by 443% (28,840).
People making more than $100,000 made up 8% of people with incomes in 2014. Interestingly, 6,320 women made more than $100,000. Interestingly the male/female ratio of folks in the income category stayed very much the same. 18% of the folks earning more than $100,000 were women.
That jump in the percentage of people making large salaries mirrors what James McLeod found in the public sector. Unfortunately, the Telegram has disappeared McLeod's blog posts in their redesign of the Telly website.
-srbp-
* Re-written for clarity.
