City Clerk Salary in Ontario (2025)
470 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Municipalities & Services (100%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
26
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$163,697
+33.9% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$137,486–$189,183
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$305,061
Who is the highest-paid City Clerk in Ontario?
The highest-paid City Clerk on the 2025 Sunshine List was John D Elvidge at City Of Toronto, with a salary of $305,061; the median among the 26 listed under this title was $163,697.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
A City Clerk paid the 2025 median of $163,697 would take home roughly $111,423 after income tax, CPP and EI — about $9,285 a month, an effective rate of about 28.6%. The 2025 list carries 26 people filed as City Clerk. Across every sector the 2025 median was $122,262, so this position sits about 34% above it. Most Municipalities & Services employees belong to OMERS, so actual take-home is likely another 7–10% lower after pension contributions.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$111,423
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~28.6%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$9,285
Where does $163,697 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 | John D Elvidge | City Of Toronto | City Clerk | $305,061 | $310,337 |
| 2 | Diana Rusnov | City Of Mississauga | City Clerk | $245,354 | $246,150 |
| 3 | Todd Coles | City Of Vaughan | City Clerk | $224,915 | $225,722 |
| 4 | Steven Vlachodimos | City Of Windsor | City Clerk | $216,409 | $218,126 |
| 5 | Matthew Trennum | City Of Hamilton | City Clerk | $198,594 | $200,827 |
| 6 | Michael Schulthess | City Of London | City Clerk | $191,250 | $199,771 |
| 7 | Caitlin Salter-Macdonald | City Of Ottawa | City Clerk | $189,183 | $192,614 |
| 8 | Mary (Genevieve) Scharback | City Of Brampton | City Clerk | $186,565 | $206,691 |
| 9 | John Kennedy | City Of Peterborough | City Clerk | $185,610 | $186,625 |
| 10 | Rachel Tyczinski | City Of Sault Ste. Marie | City Clerk | $178,834 | $180,358 |
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.