The CBC's 1,033 managers made a total of $15.4 million in bonuses, according to Access To Information records..Individual pay and benefits were not disclosed for the organization's 143 executive directors, including eight directors of finance, nine directors of legal services and 26 directors of “technology and infrastructure,” though one former executive put his yearly bonus at $80,000..According to Blacklock's Reporter, the CBC counted 143 directors, including 46 for English-language services and 40 for French-language services. The network said nine directors were responsible for “people and culture," four were assigned to “corporate development," and one director worked in the Office of CEO Catherine Tait..The directors’ pay was not detailed. Tait is paid $436,000 a year plus expenses and bonuses. Tait’s predecessor Hubert Lacroix in 2014 testimony at the Senate communications committee said his annual bonus “was around 20 percent or 21 percent” or about $80,000 a year..“How much would you pay out in bonuses to executives on an annual basis?” asked Senator Vernon White (Ont.). “In all there are about 550 people who are eligible for short term incentive plans,” replied Lacroix. Bonuses totaled about $8 million a year, he said. .The Crown broadcaster has not published any organizational chart detailing the scope of upper management. The list of 143 directors was only disclosed under the Access To Information Act..CBC management praised itself as efficient and talented..“We invent ourselves every year to try to find new ways to do things because we have to offer more, but with a smaller budget,” Michel Bissonnette, one of the seven CBC vice-presidents, testified at 2019 hearings of the Commons heritage committee..“So that requires visionary talent,” testified Bissonnette. The CBC’s main source of revenue is a $1.3 billion annual parliamentary grant..A glimpse of the CBC organization was earlier detailed in 2021 labour board hearings. Managers at the time said they had seven vice presidents, 10 directors general and a “strategic intelligence department” with a $900,000 annual budget..Senior executives included a director of business, director of operational and performance planning and a director of competitive strategic intelligence..“Each of these departments brought together a certain number of employees, more than a hundred in total for the finance and strategic planning department,” wrote Pierre-Georges Roy, a Canada Labour Code..The intelligence department was intended to “be better informed of the various trends and realities of the telecommunications sector thus enabling it to be more informed,” wrote Roy..“In recent years it has turned out it may be useful to know more precisely the activities of its competitors in the markets it occupies and also to become familiar with global trends that may affect it.”
