Mcmaster University Sunshine List 2024
Also filed as Mcmaster (1997).
1,818 employees earning $100K+ · median $152,728 · average $165,950 · overview and trend →
Who makes the most at Mcmaster University in 2024?
David Farrar, President and Vice-Chancellor, was paid $528,908 in 2024 — the highest total compensation among 1,818 Mcmaster University employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $152,728.
All Employees · 1,818 in 2024 · page 1 of 8
| # | Name | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Farrar | President and Vice-Chancellor | $518,942 | $528,908 |
| 2 | Salim Yusuf | Professor | $502,133 | $502,133 |
| 3 | Claudia Emerson | Professor | $478,337 | $478,855 |
| 4 | Paul O’Byrne | Dean and Vice-President (Health Sciences) / Professor | $462,955 | $472,522 |
| 5 | Susan Tighe | Provost and Vice-President (Academic) | $442,141 | $452,695 |
| 6 | Mohit Bhandari | Professor | $448,462 | $448,979 |
| 7 | Gerard Wright | Professor | $416,163 | $416,680 |
| 8 | Gregory Steinberg | Professor | $415,043 | $415,560 |
| 9 | Mick Bhatia | Professor | $413,632 | $415,529 |
| 10 | John Lavis | Professor | $414,426 | $414,943 |
| 11 | Leonard Waverman | Professor | $413,773 | $413,773 |
| 12 | Saher Fazilat | Vice President, Operations And Finance | $384,900 | $411,233 |
| 13 | Parminder Raina | Director / Professor | $406,987 | $407,504 |
| 14 | Khaled S Hassanein | Dean / Professor | $406,949 | $407,466 |
| 15 | John Kelton | Professor | $406,784 | $406,784 |
| 16 | Angelo Mikrogianakis | Professor | $398,242 | $398,759 |
| 17 | Karen Mossman | Professor | $379,886 | $385,789 |
| 18 | Andrew Knights | Vice-President Research | $372,523 | $382,842 |
| 19 | Susan Denburg | Professor | $368,647 | $368,647 |
| 20 | Charu Kaushic | Professor | $365,284 | $365,801 |
| 21 | Henry Armand Giroux | Professor | $360,027 | $360,027 |
| 22 | Varun Chaudhary | Professor | $354,978 | $355,495 |
| 23 | James Mackillop | Professor | $353,793 | $354,311 |
| 24 | Margaret Andrea Baumann | Professor | $352,076 | $352,076 |
| 25 | Ronald Balvers | Area Chair / Endowed Chair / Professor | $347,956 | $348,473 |
| 26 | Mahmut Parlar | Distinguished Research Professor / Professor | $345,928 | $345,928 |
| 27 | Milena Head | Director / Endowed Chair / Professor | $343,941 | $344,458 |
| 28 | Jeremiah Edward Hurley | Dean / Professor | $342,668 | $343,185 |
| 29 | Sonia Anand | Associate Vice-President / Professor | $332,273 | $332,790 |
| 30 | Ali Emadi | Professor / Professor | $331,820 | $332,337 |
| 31 | Lili Litwin | Vice-President University Advancement | $301,450 | $330,601 |
| 32 | Hertzel Chaim Gerstein | Professor | $329,996 | $330,514 |
| 33 | Wanda Mckenna | Associate Vice-President and Chief Human Resources Office | $318,166 | $328,655 |
| 34 | Sean Van Koughnett | Assistant Vice President Student, Learning and Dean of Students | $302,219 | $328,481 |
| 35 | John Maheu | Professor | $327,870 | $328,387 |
| 36 | Heather Sheardown | Dean / Professor | $327,673 | $328,190 |
| 37 | Alfonso Iorio | Professor | $323,263 | $323,780 |
| 38 | Deborah Martin | Associate Vice President, Real Estate, Partnerships and Ancillary Operations | $304,927 | $315,181 |
| 39 | Jonathan Bramson | Professor | $314,585 | $315,102 |
| 40 | James Paul | Professor | $312,455 | $312,973 |
| 41 | Maureen J Macdonald | Dean / Professor | $309,114 | $309,632 |
| 42 | Gayleen Gray | Assistant Vice President and Chief Technology Officer | $283,316 | $309,557 |
| 43 | Peter Mascher | Professor | $308,707 | $309,225 |
| 44 | Jeffrey Racine | Professor | $308,219 | $308,736 |
| 45 | Brian Coombes | Professor | $307,885 | $308,402 |
| 46 | Andrea Farquhar | Chief Executive, Internal and External Engagement | $294,792 | $305,255 |
| 47 | Deborah Cook | Professor | $304,352 | $304,869 |
| 48 | Brent Davis | University Counsel | $294,135 | $304,565 |
| 49 | Gary Andrew Chaimowitz | Professor | $303,532 | $304,049 |
| 50 | Eric Brown | Professor | $301,257 | $301,774 |
| 51 | Rick Hackett | Area Chair / Canada Research Chair Tier I / Professor | $300,758 | $301,275 |
| 52 | Akbar Panju | Professor | $300,186 | $300,186 |
| 53 | Michael Surette | Professor | $297,114 | $297,631 |
| 54 | Matthew Sibbald | Associate Professor / Instructional Assistant | $294,254 | $295,734 |
| 55 | Sandra Carroll | Professor | $293,255 | $293,773 |
| 56 | Hendrik Poinar | Professor | $289,481 | $289,998 |
| 57 | Pamela E Swett | Dean / Professor | $288,667 | $289,184 |
| 58 | Jamal Deen | Professor | $284,320 | $284,794 |
| 59 | Ehab Kamarah | Associate Vice-President and Chief Facilities Officer | $258,458 | $284,359 |
| 60 | Bonny Ibhawoh | Professor / Vice-Provost (International Affairs) | $283,174 | $283,691 |
| 61 | James Dunn | Associate Dean / Director / Educational Instructor / Professor | $282,913 | $283,430 |
| 62 | Douglas L Welch | Professor | $281,221 | $281,739 |
| 63 | Ekaterina Malinova | Associate Professor / Chair / Director | $281,045 | $281,563 |
| 64 | Cameron Currie | Professor | $276,499 | $281,397 |
| 65 | Sheila Singh | Professor | $279,621 | $280,138 |
| 66 | Dina Brooks | Professor | $279,477 | $279,994 |
| 67 | John Stewart Preston | Associate Dean / Professor / Strategic Advisor | $277,553 | $278,240 |
| 68 | Ian Hambleton | Professor | $278,041 | $278,041 |
| 69 | Gianni Parise | Assoc Vp Research / Associate Professor / Dean / Professor | $276,501 | $277,018 |
| 70 | Darren Lawless | Associate Vice-President Research Innovation and Partnerships | $235,798 | $275,392 |
| 71 | Benson Honig | Director / Endowed Chair / Professor | $273,902 | $274,376 |
| 72 | Janok Bhattacharya | Director / Professor | $273,158 | $273,675 |
| 73 | Mark Crowther | Professor | $272,851 | $273,368 |
| 74 | Karin Neufeld | Professor | $271,454 | $271,971 |
| 75 | Melissa C Pool | Associate Vice-President Academic Planning and Finance | $245,827 | $271,961 |
| 76 | Patrick Bennett | Professor | $271,371 | $271,889 |
| 77 | Bruce D Gaulin | Professor | $270,271 | $270,958 |
| 78 | Nick Bontis | Area Chair / Associate Professor | $268,223 | $268,740 |
| 79 | Lennox Arthur Sweetman | Professor | $268,012 | $268,529 |
| 80 | Steve Hranilovic | Professor / Vice-Provost and Dean Of Graduate Studies | $267,971 | $268,488 |
| 81 | Trevor William Chamberlain | Professor | $267,981 | $267,981 |
| 82 | Laurel Trainor | Director / Professor | $267,220 | $267,737 |
| 83 | Rafael Kleiman | Canada Research Chair / Department Chair / Professor | $266,033 | $266,550 |
| 84 | Susan Mccracken | Area Chair / Professor | $265,905 | $266,422 |
| 85 | Clarence C Y Kwan | Professor | $265,683 | $265,683 |
| 86 | Anna Danielova | Associate Professor | $263,986 | $264,504 |
| 87 | Mukul Sharma | Professor | $263,816 | $264,333 |
| 88 | Manish Verma | Associate Dean / Associate Professor | $263,410 | $263,928 |
| 89 | John D Brennan | Canada Research Chair / Director / Professor | $262,261 | $262,778 |
| 90 | Elkafi Hassini | Associate Dean / Professor | $259,629 | $262,336 |
| 91 | Yair Berson | Professor | $261,136 | $261,654 |
| 92 | Lorraine York | Professor | $260,886 | $261,573 |
| 93 | Thomas Doyle | Associate Professor | $261,043 | $261,560 |
| 94 | Fiona Mcneill | Associate Chair / Professor | $260,877 | $261,394 |
| 95 | Marvin George Ryder | Associate Professor | $259,832 | $260,349 |
| 96 | Jon Barrett | Professor | $259,083 | $259,600 |
| 97 | Steven Edward Hanna | Associate Dean / Professor | $259,027 | $259,544 |
| 98 | Sukhvinder Obhi | Associate Vice-President / Professor | $256,548 | $259,255 |
| 99 | Eric Sawyer | Professor | $259,092 | $259,092 |
| 100 | David Tucker | Assistant Vice President Research Nuclear | $247,721 | $258,070 |
| 101 | Ryan Van Lieshout | Professor | $256,673 | $257,191 |
| 102 | Jason Walter Busse | Professor | $256,539 | $257,056 |
| 103 | Khalid Nainar | Professor | $255,287 | $255,804 |
| 104 | Donald Arnold | Professor | $255,185 | $255,702 |
| 105 | Omer Ahmed | Associate Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer | $230,781 | $255,077 |
| 106 | John Wren Medcof | Associate Dean / Professor | $254,007 | $254,007 |
| 107 | Ken Cruikshank | Professor | $252,814 | $253,331 |
| 108 | Niko Hildebrandt | Professor | $252,648 | $253,166 |
| 109 | Laura Elizabeth Harrington | Assistant Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Faculty of Health Sciences | $242,854 | $253,164 |
| 110 | Carmel Emelia Mothersill | Canada Research Chair / Professor | $253,109 | $253,109 |
| 111 | Susan Giroux | Professor | $252,489 | $253,007 |
| 112 | Matheus Da Rocha Grasselli | Deputy Provost / Professor | $252,109 | $252,626 |
| 113 | David Earn | Professor | $251,646 | $252,163 |
| 114 | Bruce Charles Wainman | Professor | $251,245 | $251,762 |
| 115 | Mark David Inman | Professor | $250,840 | $251,357 |
| 116 | Steven Moore | Treasurer | $234,894 | $251,019 |
| 117 | Kimberley Dej | Associate Professor / Vice-Provost (Faculty) | $250,278 | $250,795 |
| 118 | K Bruce Newbold | Associate Dean / Professor | $250,019 | $250,536 |
| 119 | Vladimir Mahalec | Professor | $250,349 | $250,349 |
| 120 | Marie Elliot | Department Chair / Professor | $249,444 | $249,961 |
| 121 | John Charles Weaver | Professor | $249,901 | $249,901 |
| 122 | Narat Charupat | Professor | $249,352 | $249,869 |
| 123 | Robert Whyte | Associate Professor | $249,145 | $249,662 |
| 124 | Matthew S Miller | Associate Professor | $246,517 | $249,224 |
| 125 | Richard C Austin | Professor | $245,039 | $249,127 |
| 126 | Philip Devereaux | Professor | $248,581 | $249,099 |
| 127 | Yiqiang Jin | Director / Professor | $248,470 | $248,987 |
| 128 | Erin Reid | Canada Research Chair Tier II / Professor | $246,142 | $248,850 |
| 129 | Yufei Yuan | Professor | $248,800 | $248,800 |
| 130 | Kathy Charters | Assistant Vice President Research Administration | $238,180 | $248,499 |
| 131 | Juliet Daniel | Associate Dean / Professor / Strategic Advisor | $247,717 | $248,234 |
| 132 | Anna Moro | Associate Professor / Director | $247,597 | $248,114 |
| 133 | Brian Detlor | Area Chair / Professor | $247,549 | $248,066 |
| 134 | Robert Pelton | Director / Professor | $247,788 | $247,788 |
| 135 | Michael Farquharson | Professor | $246,970 | $247,487 |
| 136 | Michael Robert Veall | Director / Professor | $246,658 | $246,658 |
| 137 | Ralph Egon Pudritz | Professor | $246,500 | $246,500 |
| 138 | Glen Randall | Area Chair / Director / Professor | $245,741 | $246,258 |
| 139 | Hans Ulysses Boden | Professor | $245,245 | $245,762 |
| 140 | Gordon Guyatt | Professor | $245,455 | $245,455 |
| 141 | Stephen Mcbride | Director / Endowed Chair / Professor | $245,361 | $245,361 |
| 142 | Manel Jordana | Professor | $245,106 | $245,106 |
| 143 | Xiaolin Wu | Professor | $244,380 | $244,897 |
| 144 | Mel Rutherford | Department Chair / Professor | $244,136 | $244,653 |
| 145 | Emad Mohammad | Area Chair / Associate Professor | $243,592 | $244,109 |
| 146 | John F Valliant | Professor | $243,574 | $244,091 |
| 147 | Ana Regina Campos | Department Chair / Professor | $243,520 | $244,037 |
| 148 | Vivian Lewis | University Librarian | $233,511 | $243,889 |
| 149 | Barrington Walker | Professor / Vice Provost (Equity and Inclusion) | $243,157 | $243,674 |
| 150 | Saeid Habibi | Endowed Chair / Professor | $243,082 | $243,599 |
| 151 | Mandeep S Malik | Area Chair / Associate Professor | $242,414 | $242,932 |
| 152 | Don Abelson | Director / Professor | $242,169 | $242,686 |
| 153 | Margaret Mckinnon | Professor | $242,061 | $242,579 |
| 154 | Stacey Ritz | Assistant Dean, Bachelor of Health Sciences Honors Program / Associate Professor | $241,726 | $242,243 |
| 155 | Mohamed Bakr | Department Chair / Professor | $241,605 | $242,123 |
| 156 | Brian Golding | Professor | $241,819 | $241,819 |
| 157 | Marilyn Lightstone | Professor | $240,452 | $240,969 |
| 158 | Peter Miu | Professor | $239,807 | $240,325 |
| 159 | Teal Mcateer | Associate Professor | $239,807 | $240,324 |
| 160 | Stuart Phillips | Associate Chair / Director / Professor | $239,137 | $239,654 |
| 161 | J Michael Waddington | Professor | $237,886 | $238,403 |
| 162 | Lori Burrows | Faculty Member / Professor | $237,735 | $238,252 |
| 163 | Karen Kidd | Professor | $237,605 | $238,122 |
| 164 | Sarah Dickson | Associate Dean / Professor | $237,451 | $237,968 |
| 165 | William Michael Farmer | Professor | $237,433 | $237,950 |
| 166 | Aaron Schat | Associate Dean / Associate Professor | $237,305 | $237,823 |
| 167 | Timothy Davidson | Professor | $237,171 | $237,688 |
| 168 | Michael Thompson | Associate Dean / Professor | $237,168 | $237,685 |
| 169 | Margaret Fahnestock | Professor | $237,145 | $237,145 |
| 170 | Sean K Carey | Director / Professor | $236,342 | $236,859 |
| 171 | Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan | Professor | $235,978 | $236,665 |
| 172 | Carl Richards | Professor | $235,134 | $236,626 |
| 173 | Sudipto Sarkar | Professor | $235,996 | $236,514 |
| 174 | Paul Mcnicholas | Professor | $235,957 | $236,474 |
| 175 | Kai Huang | Area Chair / Professor | $233,635 | $236,343 |
| 176 | Kevin Veenstra | Associate Professor | $235,787 | $236,304 |
| 177 | Alfred Liu | Associate Professor | $235,531 | $236,048 |
| 178 | Maryam Ghasemaghaei | Area Chair / Associate Professor / Canada Research Chair Tier II | $232,999 | $235,706 |
| 179 | Bradd Hart | Professor | $235,144 | $235,661 |
| 180 | Sigal Balshine | Associate Chair / Professor | $234,963 | $235,480 |
| 181 | Carlos Filipe | Associate Dean / Department Chair / Professor | $234,946 | $235,463 |
| 182 | Catherine Connelly | Canada Research Chair Tier II / Director / Professor | $234,798 | $235,315 |
| 183 | Peter Walmsley | Department Chair / Professor | $233,694 | $235,224 |
| 184 | Stephanie Atkinson | Professor | $235,156 | $235,156 |
| 185 | Robert Bruce Milliken | Professor | $234,109 | $234,626 |
| 186 | Gillian Ruth Goward | Associate Dean / Department Chair / Professor | $233,976 | $234,493 |
| 187 | Richard Whitlock | Professor | $233,273 | $233,790 |
| 188 | Jennifer Couturier | Associate Professor | $233,255 | $233,772 |
| 189 | Gail Wolkowicz | Professor | $233,629 | $233,629 |
| 190 | Mckenzie Wang | Professor | $233,608 | $233,608 |
| 191 | Richard Paige | Associate Chair / Department Chair / Professor | $233,081 | $233,598 |
| 192 | Alison Sills | Department Chair / Professor | $232,839 | $233,356 |
| 193 | Natalia Koleva Nikolova | Associate Chair / Professor | $232,613 | $233,131 |
| 194 | Leslie Martin | Associate Professor | $232,638 | $233,086 |
| 195 | Manish Kacker | Associate Professor | $232,512 | $233,029 |
| 196 | Lisa Schwartz | Professor | $231,938 | $232,455 |
| 197 | Ruth Chen | Associate Professor / Instructional Design and Education Research Coordinator / Research Assistant | $231,509 | $232,026 |
| 198 | Stephen Clarence Veldhuis | Director / Professor | $230,690 | $231,772 |
| 199 | Jan Huizinga | Professor | $231,760 | $231,760 |
| 200 | Wolfram Kahl | Associate Chair / Professor | $231,239 | $231,756 |
| 201 | Devashish Pujari | Professor | $231,181 | $231,698 |
| 202 | Gregory Pond | Professor | $230,948 | $231,466 |
| 203 | Judith Fudge | Professor | $230,914 | $231,431 |
| 204 | Martin Gibala | Professor | $230,901 | $231,418 |
| 205 | Michael Hartmann | Part-Time Instructor / Professor | $230,770 | $231,287 |
| 206 | Alexandra Lawson | Executive Director, Public Affairs | $216,920 | $231,211 |
| 207 | James Gillett | Associate Professor / Director / Educational Instructor | $230,158 | $230,675 |
| 208 | Alan Wassyng | Professor | $230,584 | $230,584 |
| 209 | Eu-Gene Ng | Associate Professor / Program Chair | $229,874 | $230,391 |
| 210 | Alex Adronov | Director / Professor | $229,766 | $230,283 |
| 211 | Mark Lawford | Department Chair / Professor | $229,721 | $230,239 |
| 212 | Shrikant Bangdiwala | Professor | $230,239 | $230,239 |
| 213 | Cameron Churchill | Assistant Professor / Director / Director, Experiential Learning / Program Chair | $229,705 | $230,222 |
| 214 | Guoying Luo | Professor | $229,570 | $230,088 |
| 215 | Rita Cossa | Associate Professor | $229,386 | $229,903 |
| 216 | Nicholas Kevlahan | Professor | $229,358 | $229,875 |
| 217 | Christopher Walters | Chief Of Staff | $213,224 | $229,349 |
| 218 | Natalie Harrower | Executive Director, Canadian Research Data Centre Network | $213,216 | $229,341 |
| 219 | Xun Li | Associate Chair / Professor | $228,792 | $229,309 |
| 220 | Thia Kirubarajan | Professor | $228,623 | $229,140 |
| 221 | Judith West-Mays | Assistant Dean, Medical Science / Professor | $228,102 | $228,619 |
| 222 | Martin George Von Mohrenschildt | Associate Professor | $227,559 | $228,076 |
| 223 | Young Ki Shin | Professor | $227,392 | $227,909 |
| 224 | Graeme Luke | Professor | $227,387 | $227,904 |
| 225 | Nabil Bassim | Director / Professor | $227,290 | $227,807 |
| 226 | Leyla Soleymani | Associate Vice-President / Professor | $225,094 | $227,801 |
| 227 | Mohamed Marghany Shehata | Professor | $227,689 | $227,689 |
| 228 | John Siam | Associate Professor / Director | $227,206 | $227,680 |
| 229 | Samir Chidiac | Endowed Chair / Professor | $227,128 | $227,645 |
| 230 | Louis Schmidt | Professor | $227,078 | $227,595 |
| 231 | Bernice Downey | Associate Professor | $227,074 | $227,591 |
| 232 | Blaise Bourdin | Professor | $227,026 | $227,543 |
| 233 | Josip Zic | Sessional Faculty / Senior Health Physicist | $212,971 | $227,347 |
| 234 | Joanna Pierazzo | Associate Professor | $226,660 | $227,177 |
| 235 | An-Chang Shi | Professor | $226,584 | $227,101 |
| 236 | Joseph Mcdermid | Associate Chair / Professor | $226,474 | $226,992 |
| 237 | Kari Dalnoki-Veress | Professor | $226,456 | $226,974 |
| 238 | Hatem Zurob | Department Chair / Professor | $226,276 | $226,793 |
| 239 | Terence Flynn | Associate Professor | $226,179 | $226,696 |
| 240 | Ridha Khedri | Professor | $221,747 | $226,644 |
| 241 | Marc-Andre Letendre | Associate Professor / Department Chair | $226,073 | $226,590 |
| 242 | Michel Grignon | Department Chair / Professor / Professor | $226,062 | $226,580 |
| 243 | Radhey Shyam Gupta | Professor | $226,349 | $226,349 |
| 244 | Amiram Jacob Gafni | Professor | $226,342 | $226,342 |
| 245 | Ryszard Janicki | Professor | $226,221 | $226,221 |
| 246 | Christopher Longo | Executive Committee Member / Professor | $225,669 | $226,186 |
| 247 | Clare Elizabeth Mitchell | Chief Operating Officer | $210,291 | $226,132 |
| 248 | Baniyelme Zoogah | Area Chair / Associate Professor | $225,522 | $226,040 |
| 249 | Wael El-Dakhakhni | Associate Chair / Professor | $225,119 | $225,636 |
| 250 | Muhammad Altaf Arain | Director / Professor | $222,457 | $225,165 |