What was the largest increase in disclosed pay at Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs in 2015?

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs' largest increase in disclosed pay in 2015: $190,554 to $201,445, up 5.7%; it went to Debra Sikora. Across 55 people whose disclosed pay increased that year, the median increase was 2.0%. Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has not filed a Sunshine List since 2024.

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs last filed a Sunshine List in 2024; the 2025 list has no records under this name. The figures below are from the 2014 → 2015 change.

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Debra Sikora →

Largest increase (by dollars)

$10,891

Debra Sikora · +5.7%

Had an increase

55

2014 → 2015

Median increase

+2.0%

among those who had one

On the list

144

2015 Sunshine List

Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs · 2014 → 2015

A year-over-year increase or decrease in disclosed pay can include overtime, a retroactive payment, a vacation payout or severance, not only a change in base pay, rate, or role — the Sunshine List discloses total salary paid that year, not a pay rate. This list is ranked by the dollar increase, not by the percentage shown.

Debra Sikora+5.7%
Assistant Deputy Minister, Food Safety & Environment / Sous-ministre adjointe, environnement et salubrité des aliments
$190,554 → $201,445
David Hagarty+7.4%
Director, Farm Finance / Directeur, financement agricole
$123,144 → $132,209
Marc Laberge+5.8%
Senior Policy Advisor / Conseiller principal en politiques
$104,871 → $110,919
Lesley Hayward+5.8%
Senior Policy Advisor / Conseillère principale en politiques
$104,871 → $110,915
Lillian Waldie-Lawson+5.5%
Team Lead, Corporate Initiatives / Chef d'équipe, initiatives ministérielles
$104,150 → $109,916
Stephen Duff+5.4%
Senior Economist / Économiste principal
$104,871 → $110,546
Sharon Bailey+3.8%
Director, Food Safety & Environmental Policy / Directrice, politiques de l'environnement et salubrité des aliments
$145,215 → $150,733
Kelly Mcaslan+4.6%
Director, Animal Health & Welfare and Office of the Chief Veterinarian / Directrice, santé et bien-être des animaux et Bureau du vétérinaire en chef
$114,287 → $119,590
Paul Innes+4.8%
Manager, Veterinary Science & Policy / Chef, sciences et politiques vétérinaires
$104,455 → $109,423
Ross Kelly+4.6%
Manager, Resource Information & Business Services / Chef, information sur les ressources et services opérationnels
$105,628 → $110,486

38 people were new to Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs's list in 2015; 17 who were on it in 2014 were not. See the full 2015 roster →

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Method. Figures are salary paid, the same basis the year pages use for their movers sections. A mover is excluded from the raises above when their 2014 record was their first year at Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (a partial year, such as a September hire, that a full second year then dwarfs and misreads as an outsized raise), or when their 2015 record is their very last on the Sunshine List — a partial final year before leaving looks identical to a real change in pay until next year's data confirms it. This page does not list pay cuts: even the province-wide 2015 Sunshine List omits cuts for its own most recent year, since a partial final year before leaving looks identical to a real cut until next year’s data arrives — that same reasoning applies to every employer, in every year, so cuts are left off this page entirely rather than showing them in some years and not others. Counts under five people show “<5”. Data runs through 2025. The 2015 figures were published here on .