The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has published a series of reports on how stupidly over-paid the top CEOs in Canada are. As in, they are paid more than the average worker makes in a year by some time in the early days (hours) of January.
Since it has data, I just had to make a database of the reports. I wondered over the years of the reports which CEOs moved in and out of the top 100, which companies they worked for, which sectors, can we add more data from wikis or the company websites, etc.
So, I started scraping the data from the reports I found.
I had to download the PDF files to convert them to database data, so I have posted here a link to the copies of downloaded files I used. The file names do not all match with the names at the CCPA, but the content is unaltered.
2023 CEO data and the January 2025 report
2022 CEO data and the January 2024 report
2021 CEO data and the January 2023 report
2020 CEO data and the January 2022 report
2019 CEO data and the January 2021 report
2018 CEO data and the January 2020 report
2017 CEO data and the January 2019 report
2016 CEO data and the January 2018 report
2015 CEO data and the January 2017 report
2014 CEO data and the January 2016 report
2013 CEO data and the January 2015 report
2012 CEO data and the January 2014 report
2011 CEO data and the January 2013 factsheet report
2010 CEO data and the January 2012 report
2009 CEO data and the January 2011 report
2008 CEO data and the January 2010 report
2007 CEO data and the January 2009 report
December 2007 (for January 2008) report
Corps that spent the most on the C-suite
Directory of Corporations in database
Directory of Corporations in database by sector
How the data was transformed from PDF to SQL: read me
Canada GDP data was downloaded from Stats Canada. I selected the Geography as Canada, Reference period 2007-2023, and prices as Current prices, and then used the data from row: Gross domestic product at market prices