The president and CEO of Alberta Health Services can earn a maximum bonus of $144,000 — 25 per cent of his base salary of $575,000 — but there are several strings attached.

Those conditions include making budget cuts and reducing wait times for emergency room waits and hip replacement surgeries.

The details of Stephen Duckett's performance objectives and bonus were made public by the provincial government on Tuesday.

The bonus is broken down by proportion: 40 per cent is based on improving access, 30 per cent on quality improvement and the remaining 30 per cent on Duckett meeting the board's budget targets.

Alberta Health Services has recently announced it is taking measures, including a voluntary retirement plan, to cut a deficit that reached $1.3 billion at the beginning of the fiscal year.

Specific targets laid out in Duckett's performance agreement include:

• Reducing wait times for complex cases in emergency departments to14 hours from 16 in a year, and down to eight hours within three years
• Reducing wait times for less complex cases to five hours from five hours 36 minutes in a year, and down to 4 hours within three years
• Reducing wait times for hip replacement surgery to 30 weeks from 33 in a year, and down to 26 weeks within three years