Alberta Health Services is committed to transparency and has complied with legislation to disclose compensation for employees receiving over the 2023 threshold amount of $150,219 in compensation as outlined in the Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act.
The compensation information released is total annual compensation, which includes base salary, overtime, shift premiums, weekend premiums, on-call pay, sick pay, vacation pay, benefits and relevant severance. In some cases, the amount of compensation disclosed reflects the significant amount of additional hours and overtime that many health care workers have worked responding to demands on the health system. This disclosure also includes AHS former board members, regardless of the amount of compensation they have received in the past year.
AHS is a large organization — the largest health care organization in the country. The AHS disclosure list includes approximately 1.9 per cent of AHS staff and AHS-employed physicians, or about 2,131 direct AHS employees. Approximately 55 per cent of this group is unionized staff, including registered nurses, paramedics, technicians, psychologists, mental health therapists and pharmacists, among others. 45 per cent are non-union staff, including medical and senior leaders, and frontline clinical staff such as unit managers, nurse practitioners, clinical leads, pathologists, dentists, physicians, and lab scientists, among others.
AHS regularly posts expenses of the AHS executive team and former board on the external website. AHS executive team and former board salaries and total severance information are also disclosed as part of our annual audited AHS consolidated financial statements.
This page was last modified on December 20, 2024.
These data are licenced under the Open Government Licence - Alberta:
Compensation: Income plus taxable benefits paid to a member or employee. Excludes severance.
Other (non-monetary benefits): If total compensation exceeds the 2023 threshold of $150,219, non-taxable benefits, including the public sector body’s share of pension, dental and health spending accounts and other benefits must also be disclosed.
Severance: Includes payments when employment or member’s appointment ends or retiring allowance.
Attachments (when required): An employment contract or severance agreement for employees who receive over the 2023 threshold of $150,219 annually in compensation and/or severance. Links open as PDF files.
For inquiries related to this disclosure, including information about the exemption process, please contact Susan McGillivray, Senior Program Officer, HR Talent & Workforce Strategies.
Please note: there will be variances between the Annual Audited Consolidated Financial Statements and what is included in the compensation disclosure, as the financial statements are based on the fiscal year (Apr 1 – Mar 31), while the compensation disclosure is calculated on the calendar year (Jan 1 – Dec 31) and/or when compensation is paid.
