Royal Botanical Gardens

Ontario Sunshine List 2025 · 11 employees earning $100K+

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At a Glance
2025

Employee Count

11

2025 Sunshine List

Total Compensation

$1.6M

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$144,380

2025 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$119,086

Half earn more, half less

Who makes the most at Royal Botanical Gardens in 2025?

Nancy Rowland, Chief Executive Officer, was paid $267,908 in 2025 — the highest total compensation among 11 Royal Botanical Gardens employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $119,086.

How has Royal Botanical Gardens' Sunshine List changed?

Royal Botanical Gardens listed 1 people in 1997 and 11 in 2025 — 11× as many; payroll on the list went from $117K to $1.6M, and the median salary moved from $115,894 to $119,086.

How many Royal Botanical Gardens employees earn over $150,000? →

Salary Trend

Median salary by yearLine chart of 28 yearly values of median salary, from $115,894 in 1997 to $119,086 in 2025. No data for 2000.$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K199720032009201320192025
Median salary, 1997–2025. 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
2025

#1Nancy Rowland
$267,908
Chief Executive Officer
#2Kimberly Viney
$226,080
Chief Operating Officer
#3Breanna Wells
$186,080
Director, Fundraising and Campaigns
#4Alexander Virapen
$132,524
Director, Information and Communication Technology
#5Julie Mckendry
$128,840
Director, Finance
#6Kathleen Hutcheson
$119,767
Horticulturist
#7Tys Theijsmeijer
$119,707
Senior Director, Ecosystem Stewardship
#8Zahra Noorani
$115,926
Director, Business Development
#9Scott Mcpherson
$114,499
Director, Marketing
#10Jonathan Peter
$112,116
Director, Horticulture
#11Catherine Sladecek
$106,256
Senior Manager, Annual Giving and Membership

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Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
2024 → 2025

Kimberly Viney at Royal Botanical Gardens had the largest increase in disclosed pay on the 2025 Sunshine List: $199,000 to $215,900, up 8.5%.

Kimberly Viney+8.5%
Chief Operating Officer
$199,000 → $215,900
Nancy Rowland+4.9%
Chief Executive Officer
$241,020 → $252,788
Alexander Virapen+3.0%
Director, Information and Communication Technology
$127,615 → $131,444
Tys Theijsmeijer+3.0%
Senior Director, Ecosystem Stewardship
$115,224 → $118,681

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 Royal Botanical Gardens's list in 2025; <5 who were on it in 2024 were not. See the full 2025 roster →

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