Trent University

Also filed as Trent (1997).

Ontario Sunshine List 2025 · 454 employees earning $100K+

Universities

At a Glance
2025

Employee Count

454

2025 Sunshine List

Total Compensation

$70.8M

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$155,289

2025 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$141,421

Half earn more, half less

Who makes the most at Trent University in 2025?

Leo Groarke, President and Vice-Chancellor, was paid $396,700 in 2025 — the highest total compensation among 454 Trent University employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $141,421.

How has Trent University's Sunshine List changed?

Trent University listed 4 people in 1996 and 454 in 2025 — 114× as many; payroll on the list went from $472K to $70.8M, and the median salary moved from $103,368 to $141,421.

How many Trent University employees earn over $150,000? →

Salary Trend

Median salary by yearLine chart of 30 yearly values of median salary, from $103,368 in 1996 to $141,421 in 2025.$100K$110K$120K$130K$140K$150K199620022008201320192025
Median salary, 1996–2025. 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

#1Leo Groarke
$396,700
President and Vice-Chancellor
#2Cathy Bruce
$386,088
President and Vice-Chancellor
#3Tariq Al-Idrissi
$274,112
Vice-President, Finance and Administration
#4Bruce Cater
$265,387
Professor
#5Julie Davis
$265,143
Vice-President, External Relations and Development
#6Holger Hintelmann
$260,261
Vice-President, Research and Innovation
#7Mark Skinner
$255,078
Provost and Vice-President, Academic
#8Suresh Narine
$253,145
Professor
#9Richard Hurley
$247,971
Professor
#10Wenying Feng
$247,724
Professor
#11Heather Nicol
$245,180
Professor
#12Dennis Murray
$244,413
Professor
#13Stephanie Williams
$242,867
Vice-President, People, Culture and Student Services
#14James Parker
$240,967
Professor
#15Christopher Kyle
$240,811
Professor
#16Craig Brunetti
$240,487
Dean, Graduate Studies
#17Nicole Bell
$237,882
Associate Professor
#18Scott Henderson
$236,273
Vice-President, Trent Durham
#19Suzanne Bailey
$235,975
Associate Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences
#20Andrew Vreugdenhil
$235,249
Professor
#21James Conolly
$235,112
Professor
#22Neil Emery
$233,847
Professor
#23Byron Lew
$233,690
Professor
#24Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez
$232,122
Professor
#25Kathryn Norlock
$231,972
Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences

See all 454 employees in 2025 →

Download CSV (2025) →Released by the Government of Ontario under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996. Compiled by SunshineList.

Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
2024 → 2025

Nicole Bell at Trent University had the largest increase in disclosed pay on the 2025 Sunshine List: $160,027 to $237,215, up 48.2%.

Nicole Bell+48.2%
Associate Professor
$160,027 → $237,215
Cathy Bruce+16.1%
President and Vice-Chancellor
$320,690 → $372,299
Marco Pollanen+31.8%
Professor
$152,602 → $201,076
Moira Howes+23.7%
Associate Professor
$153,365 → $189,660
Zafar Kayani+18.4%
Associate Professor
$175,714 → $208,044

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.

70 people were new to Trent University's list in 2025; 32 who were on it in 2024 were not. See the full 2025 roster →

See all pay increases at Trent University →

By Year
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Top Positions
2025 · 5 or more people