Chief of Police Salary in Ontario (2025)
1,230 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Municipalities & Services (85%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
46
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$266,380
+117.9% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$215,519–$318,848
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$604,449
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.
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nishan Duraiappah | Regional Municipality Of Peel Police Services | Chief of Police | $604,449 | $611,678 |
| 2 | James Macsween | Regional Municipality Of York Police Services | Chief of Police | $455,692 | $488,510 |
| 3 | Stephen Tanner | Regional Municipality Of Halton | Chief, Police | $454,083 | $473,182 |
| 4 | Myron Demkiw | City Of Toronto – Police Service | Chief of Police | $445,367 | $458,249 |
| 5 | Bill Fordy | Regional Municipality Of Niagara – Niagara Reg. Police | Chief of Police | $437,368 | $492,693 |
| 6 | Francis Bergen | City Of Hamilton | Chief Of Police | $411,953 | $431,194 |
| 7 | Eric Stubbs | City Of Ottawa – Police Services | Chief of Police | $392,930 | $415,121 |
| 8 | Mark Crowell | Regional Municipality Of Waterloo – Police | Chief of Police | $344,575 | $364,666 |
| 9 | Thai Truong | City Of London – Police Services | Chief of Police | $324,685 | $353,739 |
| 10 | Terry Armstrong | Nishnawbe Aski Police Services | Chief of Police | $320,551 | $320,551 |
By Year
Related Positions
- Constable5,795
- Firefighter5,399
- Police Constable4,778
- Operator3,992
- Primary Care Paramedic2,883
- Sergeant1,597
- Captain1,385
- Plainclothes Police Constable1,286
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. Last updated 2026-09-06.