The number of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation employees earning more than $100,000 has more than quadrupled in less than a decade, according to new access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.In 2024-25, 1,831 CBC employees took home six-figure salaries, costing taxpayers about $240 million. That works out to an average of $131,060 per employee. In 2015-16, only 438 employees made more than $100,000, with a total cost of $59.6 million.“Taxpayers don’t need all these extra CBC employees taking six-figure salaries,” said Franco Terrazzano, federal director for the CTF. “The government should save money by taking air out of its highly paid bureaucracy and that includes Crown corporations like the CBC.”.The number of CBC staff earning six-figure salaries rose 17% in the last year alone, and 318% since 2015. The increase has been steady every year for nearly a decade.The CBC, which is expected to cost taxpayers more than $1.4 billion this year, faces renewed calls from critics to be defunded or scaled back. Terrazzano said Canadians should have the freedom to choose their content, rather than being forced to pay for the public broadcaster through taxes.“And other media organizations shouldn’t be forced to compete with the taxpayer-funded CBC,” he said.Unlike many provinces, the federal government does not publish a public “sunshine list” disclosing salaries of highly paid staff. The CTF says it has repeatedly called for Ottawa to begin proactively disclosing compensation for top earners.According to other records obtained by the CTF, more than 110,000 federal bureaucrats across departments earned at least $100,000 in 2023.
