Associate Professor and Chair Salary in Ontario (2025)
789 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Universities (100%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
51
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$200,642
+64.1% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$177,751–$228,999
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$253,645
Who is the highest-paid Associate Professor and Chair in Ontario?
The highest-paid Associate Professor and Chair on the 2025 Sunshine List was Wael El-Dakhakhni at McMaster University, with a salary of $253,645; the median among the 51 listed under this title was $200,642.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
A Associate Professor and Chair paid the 2025 median of $200,642 would take home roughly $131,037 after income tax, CPP and EI — about $10,920 a month, an effective rate of about 31.9%. Half of those listed earned between $177,751 and $228,999. That is about 64% above the 2025 median across the whole list, $122,262. Members of OMERS, OTPP, HOOPP or OPTrust typically take home another 7–10% less after pension contributions, which this estimate leaves out.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$131,037
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~31.9%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$10,920
Where does $200,642 rank on the Sunshine List? →
Estimate only: 2025 federal and Ontario rates, basic personal amounts, Canada employment amount and CPP/EI credits; single, employment income only, salary treated as full-year income. Ignores pension contributions (OMERS, HOOPP, OTPP, OPTrust and similar plans lower actual take-home), union dues, RRSPs and benefits.
Median by Year
2005–2025
Median salary paid among disclosed records. 2023 is absent: job titles were not disclosed that year. Years with fewer than five people are omitted.
Where They Work
2025 · employers with 5+
| Employer | People | Median | Top | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcmaster University | 27 | $222,862 | $253,645 | Pay here → |
| Brock University | 14 | $170,743 | $252,424 | Pay here → |
| University of Guelph | 10 | $207,153 | $242,807 | Pay here → |
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wael El-Dakhakhni | McMaster University | Professor / Associate Chair | $253,645 | $254,163 |
| 2 | Lester Mk Kwong | Brock University | Associate Professor / Chair | $252,424 | $253,094 |
| 3 | Sigal Balshine | McMaster University | Professor / Associate Chair | $247,150 | $247,667 |
| 4 | Troy Riddell | University Of Guelph | Associate Professor and Chair | $242,807 | $243,689 |
| 5 | Wolfram Kahl | McMaster University | Professor / Associate Chair | $242,201 | $242,718 |
| 6 | Natalia Koleva Nikolova | McMaster University | Professor / Associate Chair | $241,593 | $242,110 |
| 7 | Kari Dalnoki-Veress | McMaster University | Professor / Associate Chair | $240,618 | $241,145 |
| 8 | Xun Li | McMaster University | Professor / Associate Chair | $237,539 | $238,056 |
| 9 | Adrian Howard Kitai | McMaster University | Professor / Associate Chair | $230,810 | $231,327 |
| 10 | Jacques Carette | McMaster University | Professor / Associate Chair | $230,106 | $230,623 |
By Year
Related Positions
About these figures
Source: Ontario’s Public Sector Salary Disclosure (the “Sunshine List”), which names every public-sector employee paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year. Figures are disclosed salaries, not market compensation: anyone in this position earning under $100,000 does not appear, so medians here sit above the true median for the job.
Medians and percentiles use salary paid (benefits excluded), computed over records whose filed job title was normalized into this position. Titles are as each employer filed them; spellings, word order and bilingual forms are merged. Employers and years with fewer than five people show counts only. 2023: job titles were not disclosed, so that year has no position data. Titles before 2005 were abbreviated at source; the chart starts at 2005.
Data through 2025, the most recent Sunshine List disclosed.