What was the largest increase in disclosed pay at Ontario Hydro in 1997?
The largest increase in disclosed pay at Ontario Hydro in 1997 was $250,958 to $350,131, up 39.5%; it went to W Farlinger. 24 people had an increase in disclosed pay between 1996 and 1997, with a median increase of 13.5%. Ontario Hydro has not filed a Sunshine List since 1998.
Ontario Hydro last filed a Sunshine List in 1998; the 2025 list has no records under this name. The figures below are from the 1996 → 1997 change.
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Largest increase (by dollars)
$99,173W Farlinger · +39.5%
Had an increase
241996 → 1997
Median increase
+13.5%among those who had one
On the list
7791997 Sunshine List
Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
Ontario Hydro · 1996 → 1997
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.
742 people were new to Ontario Hydro's list in 1997; 358 who were on it in 1996 were not. See the full 1997 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 1996 record was their first year at Ontario Hydro (a partial year, such as a September hire, that a full second year then dwarfs and misreads as an outsized raise), or when their 1997 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 1997 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 1997 figures were published here on .