CBC staff with six figure salaries balloons under Trudeau government

From the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

The number of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation staff taking home a six-figure annual salary has soared by 231 per cent under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Last year, 1,450 CBC staff took home more than $100,000 in base salary, according to access-to-information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

That’s a 231 per cent increase over 2015, when just 438 CBC employees took home a six-figure annual salary.

Six-figure salaries at the state broadcaster cost taxpayers more than $181 million last year, for an average of $125,000 for those employees.

“The CBC has been raking in big paycheques and bonuses while the taxpayers footing the bills have been struggling,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “Is anyone in government going to step in, stick up for taxpayers and put an end to the CBC gravy train?”

The CBC also dished out more than $11.5 million in pay raises last year to 87 per cent of its workforce, according to separate access-to-information records.

No CBC employee received a pay cut in 2023.

All told, raises at the CBC total $97 million since 2015.

This week, the Canadian Press reported the CBC paid out $18.4 million in bonuses in 2024, after it eliminated hundreds of jobs.

That included $3.3 million in bonuses for 45 executives, for an average of $73,000 each – more than the average salary for Canadian workers, according to Statistics Canada.

The bonuses also included $10.4 million paid out to 631 managers and $4.6 million for 518 other employees.

Bonuses at the CBC now total $132 million since 2015. Combined, raises and bonuses at the CBC total more than $229 million and counting since 2015.

“It’s time to end these taxpayer-funded bonuses and defund the CBC,” Terrazzano said.

Year	Raise	Bonus	Combined Cost
2015	$7,958,060	$8,254,599	$16,212,569
2016	$8,187,668	$8,097,155	$16,284,823
2017	$10,134,964	$8,903,882	$19,038,846
2018	$14,544,563	$13,337,262	$27,881,825
2019	$11,048,543	$14,257,933	$25,306,476
2020	$11,989,307	$15,013,838	$27,003,145
2021	$9,218,379	$15,398,101	$24,616,480
2022	$12,505,938	$16,052,148	$28,558,086
2023	$11,528,793	$14,902,755	$26,431,548
2024	N/A	$18,400,000	$18,400,000
Total	$97,116,215	$132,617,673	$229,733,888

The CBC News Network’s share of the national prime-time viewing audience is 2.1 per cent, according to its latest third-quarter report.

Put another way, 97.9 per cent of TV-viewing Canadians choose not to watch CBC’s English language prime-time news program.

Nevertheless, the state broadcaster considers this a success, claiming CBC News Network “continues to track above” its target of 1.7 per cent, “driven by major news stories drawing large audiences.”

In 2018, the CBC’s share of the national prime-time viewing audience was 7.6 per cent. That means in six years, CBC News Network’s share has plummeted by 72 per cent.

The CBC will take more than $1.4 billion from taxpayers in 2024-25.

That’s enough money to pay the annual grocery bill for roughly 86,000 Canadian families of four.

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