Senior executives of the 2015 Pan Am Games are eligible for three bonuses worth tens of thousands of dollars, CTV News has learned.
Information on the compensation packages for eight Pan Am Games executives was obtained by CTV Toronto's Paul Bliss on Friday. The contracts were accessed through Freedom of Information requests filed by Ontario NDP researchers, and provided to CTV.
Among the contracts obtained was one belonging to Katherine Henderson, the Games' senior vice president for marketing and revenue.
Henderson earned a base salary of $239,000, and was also entitled to an annual target bonus of up to 30 per cent, or $71,700. She also earned an additional 15 per cent, or $35,850, for something called "extraordinary performance."
Henderson's contract also lists a completion bonus of two years of base salary up to a maximum of $239,000, to be paid out when the contract ends.
The other members of the Pan Am Organizing Committee are entitled to similar bonuses on top of their salaries, documents showed.
Six of the executives are eligible for more than $100,000 a year in total bonuses. Two others could net between $64,000 and $97,000.
The contracts guaranteed five weeks' vacation pay and use of a BlackBerry and laptop. Executives were also given access to Pan Am fleet vehicles.
The contracts date back as far as 2011, and the documents showed that Pan Am Games CEO Saad Rafi actually slashed some of the bonuses recently. Initially, 64 managers were eligible, but now 53 are in line to split $5.7 million in bonus pay.
A Pan Am spokesperson told Paul Bliss that only one current employee had ever received an "extraordinary performance" bonus. A government spokesperson said all bonuses were accounted for in the original Games budget of $239 million.
Officials from the Ontario government and the Games both told CTV Toronto that the bonus packages are consistent with those of executives running similar sporting events.
A spokesperson the games said the compensation structure was developed with the advice of a third-party human resources firm, to "attract the unique skills and experience" required to do the job.
NDP House Leader Gilles Bisson said he believes there should be salary caps for all government employees.
"You agree on a salary and they pay you a salary. They don't start paying you all kinds of bonuses," he told CTV Toronto at Queen's Park on Friday.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Paul Bliss
