Environmental Commissioner

Ontario Sunshine List 2018 · 7 employees earning $100K+

Government of Ontario – Legislative Assembly and Offices
Data ends in 2018. Environmental Commissioner has no records in the 2025 Sunshine List — it may have been renamed, merged into another organization, or no longer report under this name. Search for its current listing.

At a Glance
2018

Employee Count

7

2018 Sunshine List

Total Compensation

$898K

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$128,157

2018 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$111,848

Half earn more, half less

Who makes the most at Environmental Commissioner in 2018?

Dianne Saxe, Environmental Commissioner / Commissaire à l’environnement, was paid $208,016 in 2018 — the highest total compensation among 7 Environmental Commissioner employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $111,848.

How has Environmental Commissioner's Sunshine List changed?

Environmental Commissioner listed 2 people in 2005 and 7 in 2018 — 3.5× as many; payroll on the list went from $250K to $898K, and the median salary moved from $124,761 to $111,848. It has not appeared under this name since 2018.

How many Environmental Commissioner employees earn over $150,000? →

Salary Trend

Median salary by yearLine chart of 14 yearly values of median salary, from $124,761 in 2005 to $111,848 in 2018.$100K$110K$120K$130K$140K$150K200520082010201320152018
Median salary, 2005–2018. Axis starts at $100,000, the Sunshine List disclosure threshold. That threshold has never been indexed to inflation, so this line can fall over time simply because more people newly cross it — not necessarily because pay fell.

Top Employees
2018

#1Dianne Saxe
$208,016
Environmental Commissioner / Commissaire à l’environnement
#2Ellen Schwartzel
$141,585
Deputy Commissioner / Sous-commissaire
#3Tyler Schulz
$117,972
Deputy Commissioner / Sous-commissaire
#4Michelle Kassel
$112,015
Senior Manager, Legislative Analysis / Cadre supérieure, analyse législative
#5Christopher Wilkinson
$109,669
Senior Manager, Environmental Science / Cadre supérieur, Science de l'environnement
#6Nancy Palardy
$104,621
Senior Manager, Climate Change Policy/ Cadre supérieur, Politiques en matière de changement climatique
#7Michael Parkes
$104,621
Senior Manager, Energy Conservation Policy / Chef des politiques d'efficacité énergétique

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Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
2017 → 2018

No qualifying raises were computed for the 2018 Sunshine List.

A year-over-year increase or decrease in disclosed pay can include overtime, a retroactive payment, a vacation payout or severance, not only a change in base pay, rate, or role — the Sunshine List discloses total salary paid that year, not a pay rate. This list is ranked by the dollar increase, not by the percentage shown.

<5 people were new to Environmental Commissioner's list in 2018; 0 who were on it in 2017 were not. See the full 2018 roster →

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