Rankings
Ontario's highest-paid public employees
The top earners on the public sector Sunshine List — filter by year and sector.
Top 100
| # | Name | Position | Employer | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenneth Hartwick | Special Advisor | Ontario Power Generation | $1,907,409 |
| 2 | Nicolle Butcher | President and Chief Executive Officer | Ontario Power Generation | $1,596,218 |
| 3 | Steve Gregoris | Chief Nuclear Officer | Ontario Power Generation | $1,092,855 |
| 4 | Aida Cipolla | Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer | Ontario Power Generation | $1,013,496 |
| 5 | Subo Sinnathamby | Chief Projects Officer | Ontario Power Generation | $981,476 |
| 6 | Kevin Smith | President and Chief Executive Officer | University Health Network | $939,603 |
| 7 | Ronald Cohn | President and Chief Executive Officer | The Hospital for Sick Children | $880,013 |
| 8 | Mark Knutson | Chief Enterprise Engineering and Chief Nuclear Engineer | Ontario Power Generation | $856,947 |
| 9 | Jon Franke | Senior Vice President Nuclear | Ontario Power Generation | $826,655 |
| 10 | Mark Fuller | President and Chief Executive Officer / Président et chef de la direction | Ontario Public Service Pension Board (Ontario Pension Board) | $826,236 |
| 11 | Matthew Anderson | Chief Executive Officer/Président-directeur général | Ontario Health | $826,000 |
| 12 | Gadi Mayman | Chief Executive Officer | Ontario Financing Authority | $801,046 |
| 13 | Tracey Macarthur | President and Chief Executive Officer | Hamilton Health Sciences | $773,658 |
| 14 | Darwin Louis Bozek | President and Chief Executive Officer / Président et chef de la direction | Ontario Public Service Pension Board (Ontario Pension Board) | $760,411 |
| 15 | Barbara Collins | President and Chief Executive Officer | Humber River Health | $760,359 |
| 16 | Andy Smith | President, Chief Executive Officer | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | $757,366 |
| 17 | Kumar Gupta | Coroner | Solicitor General | $750,440 |
| 18 | Shelley Babin | Chief Operations Officer | Ontario Power Generation | $748,469 |
| 19 | Cameron Love | President/Président | Ottawa Hospital | $744,249 |
| 20 | Katherine A Hay | President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Retired Designate | Kids Help Phone | $729,754 |
| 21 | Brenda Macdonald | Chief Commercial Officer | Ontario Power Generation | $727,479 |
| 22 | Lesley Gallinger | President and Chief Executive Officer / Président et chef de la direction | Independent Electricity System Operator | $708,319 |
| 23 | David Graham | President and Chief Executive Officer | Scarborough Health Network | $705,941 |
| 24 | Sarah Downey | President and Chief Executive Officer / Présidente-directrice générale | Centre for Addiction & Mental Health | $703,615 |
| 25 | David Kaposi | Executive Vice President Investment Strategy and Business Development | Ontario Power Generation | $701,432 |
| 26 | Michelle DiEmanuele | Secretary of the Cabinet | Cabinet Office | $700,826 |
| 27 | David G. Vingoe | Chief Executive Officer / Chef de la direction | Ontario Securities Commission | $697,973 |
| 28 | Paul Seguin | Senior Vice President Pickering | Ontario Power Generation | $696,667 |
| 29 | Frank Martino | President and Chief Executive Officer | William Osler Health System | $692,460 |
| 30 | Alfred Hannay | President and Chief Executive Officer / Président et chef de la direction | Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation | $691,918 |
| 31 | Gary Newton | President and Chief Executive Officer | Sinai Health System | $684,005 |
| 32 | Timothy Rutledge | President and Chief Executive Officer | Unity Health Toronto | $675,196 |
| 33 | Si Truong | Senior Information Technology Leader/Advisor | Ontario Power Generation | $673,028 |
| 34 | Karli Farrow | President and Chief Executive Officer | Trillium Health Partners | $663,623 |
| 35 | Prakash Muthusami | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $662,440 |
| 36 | Dr Nadiya Sunderji | President and Chief Executive Officer | Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care | $658,752 |
| 37 | Julian Birkinshaw | Dean, Ivey Business School/Professor | The University of Western Ontario | $656,640 |
| 38 | Birgit Betina Ertl-Wagner | Radiologist-In-Chief | The Hospital for Sick Children | $656,171 |
| 39 | Altaf Stationwala | President and Chief Executive Officer | Mackenzie Health | $653,923 |
| 40 | Doris Grinspun | Chief Executive Officer | Registered Nurses Association of Ontario | $650,965 |
| 41 | Boris Vulanovic | Senior Vice President, Small Modular Reactor Execution | Ontario Power Generation | $650,523 |
| 42 | Marcela Carena Lopez | Executive Director | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | $650,000 |
| 43 | Alan Aspuru-Guzik | Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science | University of Toronto | $649,993 |
| 44 | Dr. Kenneth Boss | Psychiatrist/Psychiatre | North Bay Regional Health Centre | $641,139 |
| 45 | Ronald Gagnon | President and Chief Executive Officer | Waterloo Regional Health Network | $640,357 |
| 46 | Lynn Guerriero | President and Chief Executive Officer/Président et chef de la direction | Niagara Health System | $638,451 |
| 47 | Dragan Popovic | Senior Vice President, Small Modular Reactor Execution | Ontario Power Generation | $636,306 |
| 48 | John Yoo | Dean/Professor/Medical Doctor | The University of Western Ontario | $632,707 |
| 49 | Allan Grace | Senior Vice President Darlington | Ontario Power Generation | $630,367 |
| 50 | Heather Ferguson | Senior Vice President Business Development and Corporate Affairs | Ontario Power Generation | $628,509 |
| 51 | Steve Bagshaw | Senior Vice President Operations | Ontario Power Generation | $627,469 |
| 52 | Anthony Tang | Professor/Medical Doctor | The University of Western Ontario | $625,000 |
| 53 | Sonia Baxendale | President and Chief Executive Officer | Global Risk Institute in Financial Services | $625,000 |
| 54 | Steven Hoffman | Professor/Senior Advisor/Advisor/Endowed Chair | York University | $621,502 |
| 55 | Brian Golden | Professor of Strategic Management | University of Toronto | $616,607 |
| 56 | George Soleas | President and Chief Executive Officer / Président-directeur général | Liquor Control Board of Ontario | $606,574 |
| 57 | David Pichora | President and Chief Executive Officer \ Président-directeur Générale | Kingston Health Sciences Centre | $606,171 |
| 58 | Nishan Duraiappah | Chief of Police | Regional Municipality of Peel - Police Services | $604,449 |
| 59 | Gail Hunt | President and Chief Executive Officer | Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre | $604,438 |
| 60 | David Goldreich | Professor of Finance | University of Toronto | $601,972 |
| 61 | John Tibbits | President | Conestoga College Institute Of Technology and Advanced Learning | $601,684 |
| 62 | Joao Amaral | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $599,431 |
| 63 | Theodore Brown | Professor, Obstetrics and Gynaecology | University of Toronto | $598,159 |
| 64 | Meredith Irwin | Paediatrician-In-Chief SickKids and Chair Paediatrics, University of Toronto | The Hospital for Sick Children | $597,998 |
| 65 | Zarir Khansaheb | Senior Vice President Integrated Fleet Management | Ontario Power Generation | $597,295 |
| 66 | Richard Leary | Chief Executive Officer | City of Toronto - Toronto Transit Commission | $597,192 |
| 67 | William Strange | Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy | University of Toronto | $596,033 |
| 68 | Melissa Horner | President and Chief Executive Officer | Halton Healthcare Services Corporation | $595,472 |
| 69 | Mikhail Simutin | Associate Professor of Finance | University of Toronto | $593,667 |
| 70 | Michael Heenan | President and Chief Executive Officer | St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton | $592,155 |
| 71 | Muhammad Mamdani | Vice President Data Science Advanced Analytics Quality Performance Information Management | Unity Health Toronto | $586,765 |
| 72 | Helen Branson | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $586,239 |
| 73 | Pradeep Krishnan | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $583,643 |
| 74 | Luca Ceccato | Senior Vice President Nuclear Refurbishment | Ontario Power Generation | $582,927 |
| 75 | Priyal Thakrar | Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President,/ Chef de la direction financière et vice-président exécutif | Ontario Infrastructure and Lands Corporation (Infrastructure Ontario) | $582,568 |
| 76 | Gary Kent | Chief Administrative Officer | Regional Municipality of Peel | $581,808 |
| 77 | George Chiramel | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $579,431 |
| 78 | Alessandro Gasparetto | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $579,431 |
| 79 | Dimitri Parra | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $579,431 |
| 80 | Connie Dejak | President and Chief Executive Officer | Runnymede Healthcare Centre | $578,051 |
| 81 | Christopher Filippi | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $577,714 |
| 82 | Dilip Soman | Professor of Marketing | University of Toronto | $575,404 |
| 83 | Sharon Straus | Executive Vice President Clinical and Chief Medical Officer | Unity Health Toronto | $574,832 |
| 84 | Wei-Yi (Scott) Liao | Professor of Accounting | University of Toronto | $573,981 |
| 85 | Partha Sarat Mohanram | Professor of Accounting | University of Toronto | $573,196 |
| 86 | Glen Whyte | Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management | University of Toronto | $572,792 |
| 87 | Robert Myers | Faculty | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | $570,912 |
| 88 | Wendy Rotenberg | Professor of Finance | University of Toronto | $565,190 |
| 89 | Suzanne Laughlin | Radiologist | The Hospital for Sick Children | $562,247 |
| 90 | Michael D'Souza | Field Shift Operating Supervisor | Ontario Power Generation | $561,418 |
| 91 | Craig Andrew Doidge | Professor of Finance | University of Toronto | $561,168 |
| 92 | Robert Yeung | Chief Treasury and Investment Officer | Ontario Financing Authority | $561,087 |
| 93 | Heather Mcpherson | President and Corporate Executive Officer/Président et directeur général/Présidente et directrice générale | Women's College Hospital | $559,790 |
| 94 | Mihnea Moldoveanu | Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy | University of Toronto | $557,620 |
| 95 | Jane Philpott | Chair, Connecting Every Ontarian to Primary Health Care Initiative | Queen's University | $556,520 |
| 96 | Meric Gertler | Professor of Geography and Planning | University of Toronto | $555,450 |
| 97 | Cynthia Domjancic | Senior Vice President Human Resources and Chief Ethics Officer | Ontario Power Generation | $554,772 |
| 98 | Peter Werstiuk | Chief Executive Officer | Quantum Valley Ideas Laboratories | $552,150 |
| 99 | Everton Gooden | President And Chief Executive Officer | North York General Hospital | $551,569 |
| 100 | James Wallace | Chief Executive Officer / Directeur général | Supply Ontario | $550,423 |
Largest employers
By total appearances on the list, all years
- 1Ontario Power Generation198,062 records
- 2City of Toronto108,669 records
- 3Toronto District School Board87,161 records
- 4University of Toronto87,024 records
- 5City of Toronto - Police Service75,465 records
- 6City of Toronto - Toronto Transit Commission54,490 records
- 7Peel District School Board54,449 records
- 8City of Ottawa43,532 records
- 9Attorney General41,840 records
- 10York Region District School Board41,041 records
- 11Ontario Provincial Police39,905 records
- 12Toronto Catholic District School Board36,920 records
- 13York University36,911 records
- 14Hydro One36,278 records
- 15University of Waterloo30,163 records
- 16City of Hamilton29,186 records
- 17University Health Network28,878 records
- 18The University of Western Ontario27,807 records
- 19Regional Municipality of Peel - Police Services27,621 records
- 20Community Safety and Correctional Services27,611 records
- 21Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board27,047 records
- 22McMaster University26,360 records
- 23University of Ottawa25,742 records
- 24Thames Valley District School Board25,125 records
- 25The Regional Municipality of Durham24,811 records
Most common positions
By total appearances on the list, all years
- 1Registered Nurse127,187 records
- 2Professor115,931 records
- 3Teacher110,269 records
- 4Elementary Teacher108,950 records
- 5Secondary Teacher74,771 records
- 6Associate Professor63,236 records
- 7Constable55,936 records
- 8Police Constable47,360 records
- 9Principal27,265 records
- 10Sergeant27,149 records
- 11Firefighter26,251 records
- 12Teacher, Elementary25,140 records
- 13Elementary Principal23,870 records
- 14Law Enforcement Officer23,425 records
- 15Assistant Professor21,527 records
- 16Firefighter Operation17,947 records
- 17Registered Nurse / Infirmière autorisée17,169 records
- 18Manager16,574 records
- 19Operator14,447 records
- 20Faculty Member14,155 records
- 21Plainclothes Police Constable14,028 records
- 22Teacher, Secondary13,422 records
- 23General Duty Officer13,381 records
- 24Detective13,220 records
- 25Nurse Practitioner13,191 records