Government documents show top officials at some of the biggest and well-known charities in Canada are earning over $300,000 a year, the Globe and Mail is reporting.
Chief executives at charities such as Plan International Canada Inc., Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario, York University Foundation and five hospital foundations made over $300,000 last year.
The Globe reports that exact salary figures or names of those earners are not disclosed but numbers of how many people earning big money in the high salary range are.
Compensation for top employees at charities came under scrutiny in 2008 after it was discovered the former president of the Hospital for Sick Children was paid $2.7 million
A Liberal MP recently introduced a bill that would require charities to disclose information about their five highest-paid employees and cap salaries at $250,000, according to the Globe.
The chairman of a charity umbrella organization told the Globe, however, that large salaries are needed to have skilled people running charities. Don McCreesh of Imagine Canada also says a $250,000 salary cap is unworkable.
