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University of Waterloo Sunshine List 2025

Also filed as Waterloo (1997).

2,376 employees earning $100K+ · median $153,961 · average $167,162 · overview and trend →

Who makes the most at University of Waterloo in 2025?

Vivek Goel, President, was paid $526,302 in 2025 — the highest total compensation among 2,376 University of Waterloo employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $153,961.

Vivek Goel

All Employees · 2,376 in 2025 · page 1 of 10

#NameSalaryTotal
1Vivek GoelPresident$515,000$526,302
2James RushProfessor$400,000$411,552
3Renee MillerProfessor$407,658$408,302
4Raouf BoutabaProfessor$396,821$398,257
5Steve FortinProfessor$390,915$392,629
6Kenneth KlassenProfessor$388,579$390,138
7Blake PhillipsAssociate Professor$382,260$383,790
8Elizabeth DemersProfessor$382,844$383,610
9Benjamin ThompsonProfessor$360,377$361,546
10Charmaine DeanVice-President, Research and International$350,000$350,732
11Jacinda ReitsmaVice-President, Administration and Finance$350,000$350,732
12Alexie TcheuyapDean, Faculty of Arts$343,868$345,373
13Nenone L. DonaldsonVice-President, Advancement and External Relations$343,597$344,302
14Sushanta K. MitraProfessor$341,489$342,541
15Sanjeev GillAssociate Vice-President, Innovation$330,679$340,329
16David EdwardsProfessor$336,026$336,669
17Mark GiesbrechtProfessor$334,587$336,051
18Jefim E. BoritzProfessor$335,937$335,950
19Claudio CanizaresProfessor$329,267$329,829
20Krista FiolleauAssociate Professor$326,571$327,979
21Anita LaytonProfessor$326,363$327,859
22Charles A. PressleeAssociate Professor$327,153$327,746
23Will PercivalProfessor$321,572$322,735
24Nadarajah AsokanProfessor$322,123$322,680
25Lili LiuDean, Faculty of Health$321,065$322,116
26Mary WellsDean, Faculty of Engineering$321,371$321,960
27Tamer OzsuProfessor$319,991$320,005
28Stephen M. WattProfessor$317,364$318,028
29Jie Joyce TianAssociate Professor$313,875$314,475
30Tony WirjantoProfessor$313,683$314,322
31Paul FieguthAssociate Vice-President, Academic Operations$309,875$310,783
32Norah McraeAssociate Provost, Cooperative and Experiential Education$308,831$310,259
33Timothy D. BauerAssociate Professor$308,706$310,006
34Philippe Van CappellenProfessor$309,404$310,000
35Bradley M. PomeroyAssociate Professor$307,693$308,286
36Theophanis StratopoulosProfessor$306,455$307,040
37Kankar BhattacharyaProfessor$305,788$307,038
38Anwarul HasanProfessor$305,239$306,535
39Shavin MalhotraProfessor$304,983$306,305
40Alan V. DouglasAssociate Professor$305,588$306,211
41Andrew M. BauerAssociate Professor$304,178$305,101
42Stanley WooProfessor$303,257$304,702
43Changling ChenAssociate Professor$301,984$303,405
44Achim KempfProfessor$302,331$303,200
45James R. ThompsonAssociate Professor$300,714$302,097
46Magdy SalamaProfessor$302,042$302,056
47Adam VitalisAssociate Professor$299,948$300,536
48Raafat MansourProfessor$300,113$300,297
49Tu NguyenAssociate Professor$298,938$300,271
50Douglas M. PeersProfessor$298,531$299,989
51Jimmy LinProfessor$298,463$299,046
52Tyler F. ThomasAssociate Professor$297,761$298,347
53Sasan SaiyAssociate Professor$297,080$297,662
54Catherine RosenbergProfessor$295,780$297,226
55Roy BrouwerProfessor$295,663$296,912
56Sheshakamal JayaramProfessor$296,186$296,739
57Seda OzAssociate Professor$295,372$295,925
58Neil BrisleyAssociate Professor$293,906$295,266
59Manoj SachdevProfessor$293,590$295,024
60Linda F. NazarProfessor$294,300$294,893
61Stefan SteinerProfessor$293,096$294,324
62Brian McnamaraProfessor$293,300$293,893
63John McpheeProfessor$291,781$293,133
64Andrea EdgintonProfessor$290,937$292,212
65Richard J. CookProfessor$291,194$291,783
66Norbert N. LuetkenhausProfessor$289,423$290,301
67Sheila L. AgerProfessor$289,092$289,650
68William Alexander CramAssociate Professor$288,067$288,610
69Chris HouserDean, Faculty of Science$286,777$288,046
70Mark WeberProfessor$286,003$287,303
71Nickola VoegelinGeneral Counsel$285,641$287,036
72Alan HuangProfessor$285,374$286,782
73David Andrew WelchProfessor$285,788$286,741
74Daniel Sang KimAssistant Professor$283,885$285,198
75Bruce FrayneDean, Faculty of Environment$283,386$284,575
76Syed Walid RezaAssistant Professor$283,787$284,349
77Michel GingrasProfessor$283,566$284,155
78Lyndon JonesProfessor$281,735$283,038
79Charles L. ClarkeProfessor$280,405$281,688
80Weihua ZhuangProfessor$279,825$281,152
81Kevin ReschProfessor$279,139$280,415
82Navaratnam Sri NamachchivayaProfessor$279,743$280,328
83Catherine BurnsProfessor$279,484$280,012
84Deborah KraftAssociate Professor, Teaching Stream$278,102$278,591
85Robin CohenProfessor$277,448$277,461
86Jennifer ClappProfessor$275,489$276,762
87Michael FowlerProfessor$275,686$276,232
88Mark R. ServosProfessor$274,998$275,545
89Donna StricklandProfessor$274,411$274,986
90Sue Ann CampbellProfessor$273,661$274,910
91Jack P. CallaghanProfessor$273,050$273,590
92Marianna FoldvariProfessor$272,276$273,533
93Kerstin DautenhahnProfessor$272,110$273,379
94Pierre-Nicholas RoyProfessor$271,932$273,187
95Sarah L. HadleyAssociate Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer$270,604$271,926
96Wendy L. FletcherPast President, Professor, Renison University College$270,000$270,941
97Lisa Aultman-HallProfessor$268,936$269,467
98Christine McwebbAssociate Vice-President, Faculty and Academic Life$268,528$269,018
99John HirdesProfessor$267,478$268,761
100Marios IoannidisProfessor$267,539$268,723
101Monica B. EmelkoProfessor$267,450$268,684
102Xuemin ShenProfessor$267,428$267,996
103Hany AzizProfessor$266,019$267,258
104Michelle HollisChief Human Resources Officer$265,082$266,377
105Wayne J. ParkerProfessor$264,825$266,119
106Duane CroninProfessor$265,205$266,079
107Roydon A. FraserProfessor$265,473$266,029
108Stephen A. VavasisProfessor$264,279$265,571
109Richard CleveProfessor$264,538$265,054
110Eric CroisetProfessor$263,291$264,177
111David M. DevidiAssociate Vice-President, Academic$262,816$264,003
112Siva SivoththamanProfessor$262,593$263,840
113Heather KellerProfessor$262,557$263,840
114Carl T. HaasProfessor$262,147$263,464
115David W. BlowesProfessor$262,828$263,378
116Nancy N. WaiteProfessor$261,717$263,139
117Yuying LiProfessor$261,879$263,122
118Lila KariProfessor$261,830$263,048
119Geoffrey T. FongProfessor$262,331$262,880
120Ehsan ToyserkaniProfessor$261,360$262,563
121Mahesh D. PandeyProfessor$261,058$262,285
122John CorriganProfessor$261,037$262,229
123David A. ClausiProfessor$260,886$262,161
124Levent TuncelProfessor$260,860$262,161
125Mark ArnasonAssociate Professor, Teaching Stream$261,530$261,937
126John F. HonekProfessor$261,564$261,923
127Marc JerryPresident and Vice-Chancellor, Renison University College$260,000$261,869
128Wei-Chau XieProfessor$259,771$261,041
129Hassan BaajProfessor$259,895$260,995
130Sanjeev BediProfessor$259,967$260,788
131Dayan D. BanProfessor$259,258$260,445
132Alexander PenlidisProfessor$259,681$260,224
133Samir ElhedhliProfessor$258,728$259,992
134James F. GeelenProfessor$259,336$259,878
135Guang GongProfessor$259,166$259,708
136Shai Ben-DavidProfessor$259,678$259,691
137Robert ParkProfessor$259,101$259,626
138Harvir S. BansalAssociate Professor$258,291$259,517
139David LandriaultProfessor$258,489$259,304
140En-Hui H. YangProfessor$258,374$258,915
141Michael K. C. K. TamProfessor$258,281$258,822
142Sepideh EbrahimiAssistant Professor$257,395$258,594
143Brian DixonProfessor$257,214$258,410
144Chris A. ReadAssociate Provost, Students$256,920$258,175
145Zhou WangProfessor$257,331$257,838
146Ravi R. MazumdarProfessor$257,434$257,606
147Ondrej LhotakProfessor$256,247$257,445
148Krzysztof CzarneckiProfessor$256,191$257,370
149Joel N. BlitAssociate Professor$256,024$256,915
150Hamidreza Jahed MotlaghProfessor$255,287$256,534
151Blair FeltmateHead, Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation$255,974$256,512
152Norman Y. ZhouProfessor$254,985$256,231
153Riemer FaberProfessor$254,811$256,048
154Paul J MurphyProfessor$254,774$256,018
155Eric R. HaldenbyProfessor$255,716$255,730
156Beth S. NamachchivayaUniversity Librarian$255,146$255,680
157Wing Lok WanProfessor$254,467$255,649
158Jennifer SaulProfessor$255,104$255,630
159Amir KhajepourProfessor$254,204$255,446
160Suzan IlcanProfessor$254,661$255,401
161Gregory SmithAssociate Vice-President, Chief Information Officer$254,036$255,278
162Lisa ChristianAssociate Professor$253,933$255,109
163Claude R. DuguayProfessor$253,520$254,759
164Zheng-Yu ChenProfessor$253,515$254,754
165Pascal PoupartProfessor$253,507$254,745
166Randy HarrisProfessor$254,175$254,707
167Frank R. SafayeniProfessor$254,630$254,644
168Carolyn G. MacgregorAssociate Professor$254,077$254,586
169Hector BudmanProfessor$254,023$254,555
170Michael CollinsProfessor$253,685$254,547
171Amir K. KhandaniProfessor$253,973$254,504
172Xianshe FengProfessor$253,019$254,256
173Anindya SenProfessor$253,653$254,158
174David MckinnonProfessor$253,403$253,904
175Ian H. RowlandsProfessor$252,430$253,648
176Karim S. KarimProfessor$252,401$253,585
177Helen JarvieProfessor$252,324$252,831
178Katherine AchesonProfessor$251,616$252,792
179Fue-Sang S. LienProfessor$252,018$252,700
180Gerald SchneiderProfessor$252,455$252,469
181Changbao WuProfessor$251,115$252,255
182Henry WolkowiczProfessor$252,186$252,200
183Stephen D. MurphyProfessor$251,617$252,144
184Zbigniew WasilewskiProfessor$251,549$251,803
185Nicholas J. ManningAssociate Vice-President, Communications and Institutional Relations$250,867$251,757
186Jean BeckerAssociate Vice-President, Indigenous Relations$251,661$251,674
187Winfried SiemerlingProfessor$250,928$251,454
188Teresa BoakeProfessor$250,648$251,169
189Omar O. RamahiProfessor$250,629$251,154
190Martin KarstenProfessor$249,912$251,073
191Jeffrey M. CaselloProfessor$249,727$250,888
192David L. RudolphProfessor$250,062$250,586
193David HammondProfessor$249,280$250,499
194Scott WalbridgeProfessor$249,319$250,455
195Richard KellyProfessor$249,026$250,243
196Scott LeatherdaleProfessor$248,820$249,987
197A. Russell TuplingProfessor$248,768$249,925
198Alexander SchiedProfessor$248,704$249,918
199Delphine R. BobocelProfessor$248,597$249,812
200Bruce MuirheadProfessor$249,670$249,683
201Ian W. VanderburghAssociate Professor, Teaching Stream$248,156$249,203
202Robert J. Van PeltProfessor$248,763$249,131
203Carol PtacekProfessor$248,586$249,106
204Diane JohnstonAssociate Vice-President, Research and International Management Services$247,363$248,571
205James A. BarbyAssociate Professor$248,520$248,534
206Xin JiangAssistant Professor$247,201$248,358
207Rob De LoeProfessor$246,923$248,129
208Maria A. PolakProfessor$247,425$248,044
209Jon MasonChief Risk Officer$246,589$247,794
210Francisco GonzalezProfessor$247,173$247,733
211Kshirasagar NaikProfessor$247,161$247,670
212Maud B. GorbetProfessor$246,119$247,299
213Derek R. ArmitageProfessor$246,002$247,155
214Lora GiangregorioProfessor$246,525$246,999
215Mingyue ZhangAssistant Professor$245,766$246,886
216James SkidmoreProfessor$246,311$246,812
217Ajoy OpalProfessor$246,293$246,808
218Christiane LemieuxProfessor$245,580$246,736
219Cecile B. DevaudProfessor$246,197$246,712
220Peter A. BuhrAssociate Professor$246,580$246,593
221William P. PowerAssociate Professor$245,274$246,472
222Naomi NishimuraAssociate Professor$245,424$246,281
223Stephen L. SmithProfessor$245,201$246,277
224James DanckertProfessor$245,386$245,900
225Hans J. De SterckProfessor$244,754$245,887
226Bruce HellingaProfessor$244,624$245,819
227Susan ElliottProfessor$245,164$245,789
228Haihao (Ross) LuAssociate Professor$244,453$245,596
229Christopher M. WilsonProfessor$245,121$245,592
230Ana FerrerProfessor$245,016$245,506
231Jesse HoeyProfessor$244,969$245,474
232Kam T. LeungProfessor$244,858$245,371
233Maria StrackProfessor$244,399$245,168
234James H. BookbinderProfessor$245,018$245,032
235Serge D'AlessioProfessor$243,784$244,975
236Colleen MaxwellProfessor$244,457$244,969
237Michael HudsonProfessor$243,739$244,930
238Ian GoldbergProfessor$243,565$244,805
239Catherine Newell KellyUniversity Registrar$243,768$244,719
240Monica Leoni LambeckAssociate Professor$243,441$244,563
241Na Young KimAssociate Professor$243,575$244,018
242Bernard DunckerProfessor$243,529$244,011
243Shoufa LinProfessor$242,726$243,883
244Brian IngallsProfessor$243,011$243,482
245Clarence WoudsmaAssociate Professor$242,162$243,297
246David D. NairnAssociate Professor$242,780$243,289
247Jean DuhamelProfessor$242,776$243,284
248Tze Wei YeowProfessor$241,588$242,769
249Liang-Liang XieProfessor$241,667$242,760
250Hong CuiProfessor$241,453$242,555

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