Chief of Staff Salary in Ontario (2025)
973 disclosed records, 1998–2025 · mostly Government of Ontario – Ministries (44%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
99
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$160,156
+31.0% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$131,282–$193,846
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$464,339
Who is the highest-paid Chief of Staff in Ontario?
The highest-paid Chief of Staff on the 2025 Sunshine List was Syed Zaki Ahmed at Humber River Health, with a salary of $464,339; the median among the 99 listed under this title was $160,156.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
Federal and Ontario income tax on the 2025 Chief of Staff median of $160,156 comes to about 28.2%, leaving roughly $109,474 a year — about $9,123 a month. The 2025 list carries 99 people filed as Chief of Staff. The middle half of Chief of Staff salaries ran from $131,282 to $193,846. Most Government of Ontario – Ministries employees belong to PSPP or OPTrust, so actual take-home is likely another 7–10% lower after pension contributions.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$109,474
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~28.2%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$9,123
Where does $160,156 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.
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Syed Zaki Ahmed | Humber River Health | Chief of Staff | $464,339 | $475,269 |
| 2 | Virginia Roth | The Ottawa Hospital | Chief of Staff/Médecin-chef | $404,619 | $416,430 |
| 3 | Pankaj Bhatia | Health Sciences North | Chief of Staff / Médecin -chef | $394,591 | $394,591 |
| 4 | Philip Welford | Workplace Safety And Insurance Board | Chief of Staff / Chef(fe) de direction | $369,428 | $370,233 |
| 5 | David Mcconachie | Halton Healthcare Services Corporation | Chief of Staff | $326,107 | $326,107 |
| 6 | Dr. Shaun Mcguire | Bruyère Health | Chief of Staff / Médecin-chef | $323,917 | $324,189 |
| 7 | Chantal D'Aoust-Bernard | Hôpital Montfort | Médecin-cheffe/Chief of Staff | $313,041 | $313,980 |
| 8 | Wassim Saad | Windsor Regional Hospital | Chief of Staff / Chef d'équipe | $309,918 | $311,848 |
| 9 | Katalin Kovacs | Queensway Carleton Hospital | Chief of Staff | $297,012 | $297,012 |
| 10 | Dr. Bradley Jacobson | Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre | Chief of Staff / Médecin-chef | $282,381 | $285,951 |
By Year
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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.