Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit

Also filed as Wellington–dufferin–guelph Health Unit (2012).

Ontario Sunshine List 2025 · 47 employees earning $100K+

Hospitals & Boards of Public Health

At a Glance
2025

Employee Count

47

2025 Sunshine List

Total Compensation

$6.4M

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$134,641

2025 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$115,769

Half earn more, half less

Who makes the most at Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit in 2025?

Nicola Mercer, Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer, was paid $361,818 in 2025 — the highest total compensation among 47 Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $115,769.

How has Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit's Sunshine List changed?

Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit listed 1 people in 1996 and 47 in 2025 — 47× as many; payroll on the list went from $129K to $6.4M, and the median salary moved from $128,315 to $115,769.

How many Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit employees earn over $150,000? →

Salary Trend

Median salary by yearLine chart of 25 yearly values of median salary, from $128,315 in 1996 to $115,769 in 2025. No data from 1998 to 2002.$100K$120K$140K$160K$180K199620062011201720212025
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

#1Nicola Mercer
$361,818
Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive Officer
#2Matthew Tenenbaum
$318,125
Associate Medical Officer of Health
#3Christopher Beveridge
$203,829
Vice President, Health Protection and Emergency Preparedness
#4Rita Isley
$194,440
Vice President, Community Health; Chief Nursing Officer
#5Kyle Wilson
$191,615
Vice President, Information Services and Digital Innovation; Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Information Officer
#6David Kingma
$191,615
Chief Administrative Officer
#7Emerson Rajaram
$168,947
Chief Information Security Officer
#8Brian Herman
$168,897
Chief Financial Officer
#9Patryk Wardach
$168,897
Chief Human Resources Officer
#10Phil Wong
$154,793
Operations Director, Health Protection
#11Lisa Hebden
$147,294
Operations Director, Client Services
#12Paul Medeiros
$137,094
Manager, Environmental Health
#13Lilliana Marinko
$135,638
Manager, Infectious Diseases
#14Camille Loucks
$134,186
Manager, Clinical Services
#15Karen Mulvey
$134,126
Manager, Vaccine Preventable Diseases
#16April Pollington
$133,775
Manager, Dental
#17Anna Vanderlaan
$131,357
Manager, Health Promotion, Project Management, and Privacy
#18Chuck Ferguson
$129,758
Manager, Corporate Communications
#19Gabriel Agunsoye
$123,563
Infrastructure Architect
#20Shelby Leenders
$121,026
Manager, Infection Control
#21Justin Angevaare
$120,041
Principal Data Scientist
#22Kishore Kamati
$119,175
Software Architect
#23Michael Whyte
$116,746
Manager, Data and Analytics
#24Alana Byron
$115,890
Supervisor, Community Health
#25Lara Charlebois
$114,939
Public Health Nurse

See all 47 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

Phil Wong at Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit had the largest increase in disclosed pay on the 2025 Sunshine List: $136,777 to $154,301, up 12.8%.

Phil Wong+12.8%
Operations Director, Health Protection
$136,777 → $154,301
Christopher Beveridge+6.5%
Vice President, Health Protection and Emergency Preparedness
$191,016 → $203,398
Lisa Hebden+9.1%
Operations Director, Client Services
$134,609 → $146,804
Justin Angevaare+11.3%
Principal Data Scientist
$107,451 → $119,618
Lara Charlebois+11.4%
Public Health Nurse
$102,868 → $114,614

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.

9 people were new to Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit's list in 2025; <5 who were on it in 2024 were not. See the full 2025 roster →

See all pay increases at Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit →

By Year
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Top Positions
2025 · 5 or more people