Deputy Fire Chief Salary in Ontario (2025)
1,414 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Municipalities & Services (100%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
129
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$153,925
+25.9% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$123,770–$182,737
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$263,390
Who is the highest-paid Deputy Fire Chief in Ontario?
The highest-paid Deputy Fire Chief on the 2025 Sunshine List was Kyle Christopher at City Of Belleville, with a salary of $263,390; the median among the 129 listed under this title was $153,925.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
At the 2025 median salary of $153,925, a Deputy Fire Chief keeps roughly $106,045 after income tax, CPP and EI (about 27.5% effective), or about $8,837 a month. 129 people were listed under this title in 2025. Half of those listed earned between $123,770 and $182,737. Across every sector the 2025 median was $122,262, so this position sits about 26% above it. After pension contributions (probably OMERS in this sector), take-home is usually a further 7–10% lower.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$106,045
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~27.5%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$8,837
Where does $153,925 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 | Kyle Christopher | City Of Belleville | Deputy Fire Chief | $263,390 | $264,593 |
| 2 | Alexandra (Sandy) Van Solm | City Of Waterloo | Deputy Fire Chief | $220,744 | $224,624 |
| 3 | Robert Garland | City Of Markham | Deputy Fire Chief | $218,334 | $225,514 |
| 4 | Richard Murdoch | City Of Brampton | Deputy Fire Chief | $218,331 | $219,794 |
| 5 | Andrew Von Holt | City Of Brampton | Deputy Fire Chief | $216,770 | $239,807 |
| 6 | Chantelle Cosgrove-Welsh | City Of Brampton | Deputy Fire Chief | $216,770 | $228,272 |
| 7 | Kenneth Whetham | City Of Oshawa | Deputy Fire Chief | $215,613 | $216,170 |
| 8 | Ryan Best | City Of Markham | Deputy Fire Chief | $209,304 | $217,213 |
| 9 | Chris Davidson | City Of Kitchener | Deputy Fire Chief | $202,017 | $208,208 |
| 10 | Grant Moffatt | City Of Vaughan | Deputy Fire Chief | $201,722 | $214,620 |
By Year
Related Positions
- Constable5,795
- Firefighter5,399
- Police Constable4,778
- Operator3,992
- Primary Care Paramedic2,883
- Sergeant1,600
- 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, the most recent Sunshine List disclosed.