Wilfrid Laurier University

Also filed as Wilfrid Laurier (1997).

Ontario Sunshine List 2025 · 862 employees earning $100K+

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At a Glance
2025

Employee Count

862

2025 Sunshine List

Total Compensation

$136.7M

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$157,973

2025 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$153,871

Half earn more, half less

Who makes the most at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2025?

Deborah Maclatchy, President, was paid $458,798 in 2025 — the highest total compensation among 862 Wilfrid Laurier University employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $153,871.

How has Wilfrid Laurier University's Sunshine List changed?

Wilfrid Laurier University listed 32 people in 1996 and 862 in 2025 — 27× as many; payroll on the list went from $3.7M to $136.7M, and the median salary moved from $104,964 to $153,871.

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

Salary Trend

Median salary by yearLine chart of 30 yearly values of median salary, from $104,964 in 1996 to $153,871 in 2025.$100K$120K$140K$160K199620022008201320192025
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

#1Deborah Maclatchy
$458,798
President
#2Heidi Northwood
$358,035
Provost and Vice President: Academic
#3Kyle Murray
$348,154
Dean, Lazaridis School
#4Jason Coolman
$319,988
Vice President: Advancement and External Relations
#5Pamela Cant
$295,778
Vice President, Finance and Administration
#6Jonathan Newman
$289,528
Vice President, Research
#7Ning Tang
$283,197
Faculty
#8M. Fabricio Perez
$280,205
Vice Dean, Lazaridis
#9Chima Mbagwu
$272,677
Faculty
#10Subhankar Nayak
$272,305
Faculty
#11Anthony Clarke
$268,225
Dean, Faculty of Science
#12Si Li
$265,656
Faculty
#13Chet Robie
$263,901
Faculty
#14Jonathan Crush
$261,738
Faculty
#15Ling Chu
$256,152
Faculty
#16Ulrike Gross
$255,574
Assistant Vice President, Facilities and Asset Management
#17Maria Cantalini-Williams
$254,010
Dean, Faculty of Education
#18Robert Mathieu
$252,535
Faculty
#19Patricia Mclaren
$251,273
Provost and Vice President: Academic
#20Hamid Noori
$251,206
Faculty
#21Sarah Wilner
$248,060
Faculty
#22Sofy Carayannopoulos
$247,823
Faculty
#23Sofie Lachapelle
$247,250
Dean, Faculty of Arts
#24Diego Amaya
$246,009
Faculty
#25Lisa Keeping
$243,828
Faculty

See all 862 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

Deborah Maclatchy at Wilfrid Laurier University had the largest increase in disclosed pay on the 2025 Sunshine List: $404,250 to $457,380, up 13.1%.

Deborah Maclatchy+13.1%
President
$404,250 → $457,380
Salar Ghamat+30.0%
Faculty
$170,128 → $221,231
Fang Wang+25.8%
Faculty
$192,670 → $242,301
Pamela Cant+17.4%
Vice President, Finance and Administration
$251,149 → $294,859
Heider Ali+36.9%
Lab Instruction Coordinator (Physics and Computer Science)
$114,084 → $156,217

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.

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

See all pay increases at Wilfrid Laurier University →

By Year
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Top Positions
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