Assistant Professor Salaries, 2025

2,064 disclosed on the 2025 Sunshine List · overview and trend →

Disclosed

2,064

2025 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$137,351

+12.3% vs provincial median

Typical Range

$123,188–$158,294

25th–75th percentile

Top Salary

$371,399

Employers · with 5 or more

Employer	People	Median	Top
University of Western Ontario	330	$134,142	$279,704
Mcmaster University	228	$136,837	$216,308
Queen's University	181	$164,064	$362,596
Toronto Metropolitan University	177	$135,198	$204,251
University of Waterloo	176	$143,954	$283,885
York University	164	$142,520	$309,881
University of Guelph	149	$141,510	$233,569
University of Ottawa	148	$150,689	$195,757
Trent University	104	$127,167	$161,682
Brock University	98	$128,279	$250,961
University of Toronto	78	$139,817	$371,399
University of Windsor	69	$127,441	$204,423
Lakehead University	47	$121,573	$154,437
Laurentian University of Sudbury	45	$121,863	$186,757
Ontario College of Art and Design University	31	$117,290	$140,463

All Records · 2,064 in 2025 · page 1 of 9

#	Name	Employer	Title as filed	Salary	Total
1	Ting Xu	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$371,399	$371,609
2	Stephen Thomas	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$362,596	$362,868
3	Shelley Kierstead	York University	Assistant Professor	$309,881	$310,837
4	Chang-Yuan Lee	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$293,315	$293,441
5	Daniel Sang Kim	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$283,885	$285,198
6	Syed Walid Reza	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$283,787	$284,349
7	Pouyan Foroughi	York University	Assistant Professor	$280,622	$281,578
8	Aleksandra Rzeznik	York University	Assistant Professor	$280,622	$281,578
9	Romel Mostafa	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$279,704	$279,803
10	Sae-Seul Park	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$272,286	$272,527
11	Peter Gallant	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$268,381	$268,654
12	Samsun Knight	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$267,827	$267,953
13	Shyam Venkatesan	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$264,592	$264,691
14	Runjing Lu	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$261,861	$262,112
15	Pierre-Olivier Gaudreau	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$260,151	$260,151
16	Jingyu Zhang	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$259,175	$259,447
17	Eva Vivalt	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$257,961	$258,086
18	Sepideh Ebrahimi	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$257,395	$258,594
19	Matthew Sooy	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$254,299	$254,399
20	Osman Ulas Aktas	Brock University	Assistant Professor	$250,961	$252,034
21	Xin Jiang	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$247,201	$248,358
22	Jeffrey Boichuk	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$246,267	$249,221
23	Mingyue Zhang	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$245,766	$246,886
24	Majid Majzoubi	York University	Assistant Professor	$245,723	$246,680
25	Beata Gafka	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$245,380	$247,559
26	Blake Steenhoven	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$244,648	$244,648
27	George Malikov	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$244,265	$244,365
28	Evan Jo	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$240,482	$240,755
29	Tisha King	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$238,980	$239,455
30	Ningning Xie	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$237,647	$238,681
31	Wenqian Hu	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$237,518	$237,990
32	Lyndsey Rolheiser	York University	Assistant Professor	$237,428	$238,385
33	Nancy Traill	York University	Assistant Professor	$237,099	$237,478
34	Kaishu Wu	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$237,082	$238,225
35	K.Paul Evans	York University	Assistant Professor	$235,196	$235,602
36	Tianjiao Tong	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$235,100	$235,200
37	Xiu Ting Yiew	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$233,569	$234,618
38	Muhammad Azim	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$233,436	$233,903
39	Clifton Forlines	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$233,333	$233,585
40	Aviad Levis	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$230,850	$233,004
41	Yi Luo	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$230,337	$232,937
42	Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$228,823	$229,095
43	Yun Xue	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$228,468	$228,568
44	Kun Huo	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$228,229	$229,129
45	Vibhuti Dhingra	York University	Assistant Professor	$227,118	$228,074
46	Raha Imanirad	York University	Assistant Professor	$226,045	$227,001
47	Xijiang Su	York University	Assistant Professor	$225,495	$226,451
48	Cory Hinds	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$224,130	$224,402
49	Guangrui Li	York University	Assistant Professor	$223,664	$224,620
50	Di Yang	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$223,418	$225,992
51	Nigussie Mengesha	Brock University	Assistant Professor	$221,376	$222,046
52	Amy Lack	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$220,326	$220,372
53	Janice Byrne	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$220,263	$221,635
54	Eveline Adomait	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$220,054	$220,145
55	Yuqian Chang	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$218,368	$220,053
56	Alison Taylor	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$218,111	$218,384
57	Mengxia Zhang	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$217,793	$217,892
58	Vanessa Hasse	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$217,622	$218,524
59	Prashant Rajaram	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$217,548	$217,648
60	Alex Chan	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$217,437	$218,145
61	Laurel Steinfield	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$216,694	$216,793
62	Kirsten Culver	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$216,308	$216,825
63	Ken Li	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$215,415	$215,932
64	Kanina Blanchard	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$215,025	$215,446
65	Susan Douglas	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$214,755	$214,755
66	Eric Bentzen-Bilkvist	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$214,622	$215,140
67	Shane Saunderson	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$214,468	$214,985
68	William Huggins	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$214,276	$214,793
69	Andrea Podhorsky	York University	Assistant Professor	$214,163	$215,119
70	Elaheh Fata	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$213,998	$213,998
71	Prashant Chintapalli	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$213,798	$214,047
72	Yang Li	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$212,603	$214,842
73	Kyle Maclean	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$212,584	$212,684
74	Hayden Woodley	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$212,418	$212,518
75	Barnini Bhattacharyya	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$211,973	$213,372
76	Rui Duan	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$211,922	$212,439
77	Zhe Zhang	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$211,012	$211,112
78	Aishajiang Aizezikali	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$209,848	$212,348
79	Krista Pettit	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$209,547	$209,647
80	Tiffany Bayley	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$209,288	$209,388
81	Michelle Lee	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$208,202	$208,202
82	Muhammad Alam	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$207,352	$212,545
83	Guneet Kaur Nagpal	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$207,181	$207,281
84	Heather Kennedy	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$207,133	$207,581
85	Qian Yang	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$206,631	$207,148
86	David Barrett	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$205,393	$206,793
87	Bradley Hackinen	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$205,222	$205,322
88	Luc Bernier	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$204,449	$204,966
89	Hossein Fani	University Of Windsor	Assistant Professor	$204,423	$204,870
90	Dongning Yu	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$204,251	$207,315
91	Jin Wang	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$204,103	$204,620
92	Patricia Hein	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$203,924	$205,224
93	Lee Watkiss	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$203,894	$203,994
94	Paula Lopez Pena	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$203,425	$203,425
95	Joachim Scholz	Brock University	Assistant Professor	$203,067	$203,737
96	Waquar Ahmad	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$201,684	$202,202
97	Sudeshna Maitra	York University	Assistant Professor	$200,686	$201,635
98	Nasrin Yousefi	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$200,393	$200,661
99	Adam Wilczynski	York University	Assistant Professor	$199,577	$200,527
100	Kelsey Matthews	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$198,830	$199,951
101	Ruben Burga	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$198,660	$199,097
102	Fernando Inocencio	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$198,124	$198,223
103	Shaminder Dhillon	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$197,849	$200,704
104	Allison Collier	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$197,442	$198,091
105	Daniel Tut	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$196,982	$197,954
106	Elizabeth Johnson	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$196,915	$197,187
107	Neil Barr	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$196,817	$197,334
108	Adeel Mahmood	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$196,785	$197,302
109	Maziar Raz	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$196,735	$196,835
110	Xiaowen Lei	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$196,708	$197,225
111	Yaqin Hu	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$196,361	$199,216
112	Esther Leibel	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$196,148	$196,248
113	Connie Zavitz	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$196,024	$196,600
114	Lucian Balan	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$196,011	$196,528
115	Lilia Marcela Ibarra	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$195,974	$196,074
116	Alan Ableson	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$195,848	$195,848
117	Sheldon Weatherstone	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$195,757	$196,089
118	Yulia Nevskaya	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$195,715	$195,715
119	Tainor Tisotti	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$195,585	$196,010
120	Yonatan Kahn	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$195,420	$199,043
121	Abdulrahman Al-Osman	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$194,940	$195,040
122	Ranjita Singh	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$194,842	$195,916
123	Shannon Rawski	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$194,705	$194,805
124	Shota Ichihashi	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$194,487	$194,729
125	Dale Bradley	Brock University	Assistant Professor	$194,472	$195,142
126	Alejandro Merchan Munoz	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$194,353	$194,982
127	Warren Ritchie	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$194,337	$194,437
128	Fulei Liu	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$194,313	$194,823
129	Juan Chavez Ramirez	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$194,247	$194,501
130	Roberto Nickel	Brock University	Assistant Professor	$193,932	$195,005
131	Nanxi Zhang	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$193,753	$195,412
132	Katie Lebel	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$193,352	$193,857
133	Christian Muise	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$193,240	$193,499
134	Ekin Ok	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$193,165	$193,165
135	Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$192,990	$193,803
136	Danielle Lacasse	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$192,686	$192,785
137	Ting Li	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$192,617	$192,717
138	Luiza Zakia	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$192,531	$193,170
139	Adam Brown	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$192,104	$192,104
140	Brian Conheady	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$192,104	$192,104
141	Steven Desjardins	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$192,104	$192,104
142	Christian Gigault	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$192,104	$192,104
143	Riadh Habash	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$192,104	$192,104
144	Stéphan Larose	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$192,104	$192,104
145	Caroline Barrière	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe, professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$192,043	$192,043
146	Kathy Focsaneanu	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint /Assistant Professor	$191,719	$192,051
147	Simone Dumas	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$191,455	$191,455
148	David Andrew Young	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$191,444	$191,961
149	Meng Xu	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$191,437	$191,795
150	Amy Palma	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$190,855	$191,372
151	Xiao Hu	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$190,368	$190,715
152	William Hockley	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$189,381	$189,953
153	Yingnan Zhao	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$189,217	$189,734
154	Min Jeong Hong	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$189,075	$190,163
155	Hong Zhang	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$188,844	$189,187
156	Noomane Raboudi	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$188,679	$188,679
157	Hazem Abbas	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$188,090	$188,090
158	Dilan Eren	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$188,068	$191,868
159	Seyed Mohammad Hosseini	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$188,068	$188,614
160	Shengwen Li	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$188,068	$190,668
161	Yang Pan	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$188,043	$190,898
162	Jamie Van Gulck	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$187,773	$187,773
163	Seyed Amirhossein Taherizadeh	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$187,173	$187,690
164	Jennifer Ostovich	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$187,169	$187,687
165	Kurt Schobel	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$187,085	$187,085
166	William Van Woensel	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$186,959	$186,959
167	Elaine Beaulieu	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$186,891	$186,891
168	Luke Schaeffer	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$186,853	$187,198
169	James Ketchen	Laurentian University Of Sudbury	Professeur(e) adjoint(e) / Assistant Professor	$186,757	$187,512
170	Ala Mokhtar	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$186,657	$187,175
171	Jan Doering	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$186,095	$186,220
172	Sarah Burrows	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$186,075	$186,075
173	Francois Cote-Vaillancourt	Brock University	Assistant Professor	$185,932	$186,602
174	Naima Cherchem	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$185,859	$186,927
175	Bhargav Gopal	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$185,688	$185,688
176	Edem Klobodu	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$185,688	$185,941
177	Ashley Spencer	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$185,411	$185,897
178	Sean O'Brady	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$185,341	$192,871
179	Gautam Kamath	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$185,258	$186,164
180	Charles Hindmarch	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$185,160	$185,432
181	Nursel Selver Ruzgar	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$185,087	$186,152
182	Shengkun Xie	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$185,087	$186,152
183	Bart Ripperda	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$184,963	$216,484
184	John Li	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$184,885	$185,949
185	John Carran	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$184,880	$185,152
186	Hassan Ahmad	York University	Assistant Professor	$184,625	$185,263
187	Sergio Ocampo Diaz	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$184,275	$184,375
188	Kexue Zhang	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$184,197	$184,470
189	Erin Yu-Tien Huang	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$184,043	$184,210
190	Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$183,213	$183,381
191	Mayur Joshi	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$183,162	$183,494
192	Yang Chen	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$183,155	$184,219
193	Sihang Liu	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$182,787	$183,559
194	Sarah Dick	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$182,767	$182,767
195	Keith Rogers	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$182,581	$182,854
196	Joanne Savory	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$182,523	$182,684
197	Matthew Pan	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$182,494	$182,736
198	Lucia Lee	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$182,243	$182,474
199	Matthieu Delcourt	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$182,213	$182,213
200	Astrid Heyer	Brock University	Assistant Professor	$182,190	$182,860
201	Kirsten Cornelson	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$182,164	$182,264
202	Sara Nabil	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$181,833	$182,105
203	Yin Jia Qiu	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$181,809	$182,287
204	Jiangnan Zeng	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$181,809	$182,287
205	Lindsay Borrows	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$181,769	$182,007
206	Quang Nguyen	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$181,744	$184,283
207	Anqi Li	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$181,497	$181,877
208	Claire Deng	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$181,377	$182,420
209	Ming Xu	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$181,248	$181,521
210	Rusty Evans	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$181,227	$181,699
211	Sharlene Shuyin He	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$181,208	$181,585
212	Nahim Zahur	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$181,073	$181,320
213	Dina Salha	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$181,066	$181,460
214	Nooshin Salari	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$181,039	$181,556
215	David Loree	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$180,862	$180,961
216	Pengyu Nie	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$180,741	$181,517
217	Rengong Zhang	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$180,598	$180,598
218	Mons Chan	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$180,285	$180,557
219	Harshit Rajaiya	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$180,123	$180,123
220	Randal Booth	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$179,905	$179,905
221	Erin Meger	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$179,486	$179,486
222	William Hawker	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$179,343	$180,015
223	Karen Macmillan	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$179,161	$179,261
224	Alexander James Corner	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$179,070	$179,070
225	May Tajima	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$179,032	$179,132
226	Rafael Mendes De Oliveira	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$178,886	$179,761
227	Leigh Walsh	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$178,667	$178,667
228	Bruce William Morrison	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$178,591	$178,691
229	Kathleen D. Fraser	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$178,512	$178,612
230	Felix Lee	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$178,489	$178,589
231	Karen Ye	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$178,388	$178,631
232	Mohammad Hajiabadi	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$178,323	$178,694
233	Sitian Liu	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$178,258	$178,501
234	Courtney Schott	University Of Guelph	Assistant Professor	$178,253	$178,702
235	Yue Wang	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$178,170	$178,170
236	Joshua Foster	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$177,959	$178,059
237	Yizhou Zhang	University Of Waterloo	Assistant Professor	$177,873	$178,245
238	Maria Chiri	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$177,705	$177,705
239	Heather Poole	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$177,446	$177,446
240	Julie Kellershohn	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$177,338	$178,358
241	Todd Alway	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$177,256	$177,773
242	Hunter Spink	University Of Toronto	Assistant Professor	$177,196	$177,321
243	Nahee Park	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$177,173	$177,414
244	Caroline Sullivan	University Of Ottawa	Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint / Assistant Professor	$177,132	$177,132
245	Nicolle Domnik	Queen's University	Assistant Professor	$177,053	$177,294
246	Vessela Stamenova	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$177,033	$178,051
247	Sandra Colavecchia	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$176,835	$177,352
248	Amarpreet Sabharwal	University Of Western Ontario	Assistant Professor	$176,828	$176,928
249	Joseph Aversa	Toronto Metropolitan University	Assistant Professor	$176,760	$177,768
250	Cansu Ekmekcioglu Dedeoglu	McMaster University	Assistant Professor	$176,731	$179,586