The number of staff at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation collecting six figure salaries has more than doubled since 2015, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

“Taxpayers don’t need all these extra CBC employees taking six-figure salaries,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “The government should save money by taking air out of its highly paid bureaucracy and that includes Crown corporations like the CBC.”

In 2024-25, 1,831 CBC employees took a six-figure salary, according to the records obtained by the CTF. Those salaries cost taxpayers about $240 million last year, for an average salary of $131,060 for those employees.

In 2015-16, 438 CBC employees took home six-figure salaries, for a total cost to taxpayers of about $59.6 million. 

The number of CBC employees receiving an annual salary of more than $100,000 has increased every year since 2015, according to the records.

The number of CBC staffers with a six-figure salary increased 17 per cent over the last year. Since 2015, that number has increased 318 per cent.

The table at the end of this story details the CBC’s “sunshine list” for each year, according to the access-to-information records obtained by the CTF.

The CBC will cost taxpayers more than $1.4 billion this year, according to the Main Estimates.

“Canadians should be able to pick the content they want to pay for instead of the government forcing them to pay for the CBC with their taxes,” Terrazzano said. “And other media organizations shouldn’t be forced to compete with the taxpayer-funded CBC.

“It’s time to defund the CBC.”

While most provincial governments proactively publish annual sunshine lists to provide transparency on employee compensation, the federal government does not.

The CTF has repeatedly called on the federal government to proactively publish a sunshine list to disclose the salaries of the government’s highest paid employees.

More than 110,000 federal bureaucrats took home a six-figure base salary in 2023, according to separate access-to-information records obtained by the CTF.

CBC sunshine list and cost, per access-to-information records