Director of Communications Salary in Ontario (2025)
999 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Government of Ontario - Ministries (31%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
88
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$150,680
+23.2% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$127,485–$178,018
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$254,271
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 | Lisa Legatto | Health | Director, Communications | $254,271 | $254,520 |
| 2 | John Whytock | Energy and Mines | Director, Communications | $238,298 | $238,548 |
| 3 | Paola Gemmiti | Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development | Director, Communications | $232,669 | $232,912 |
| 4 | Peter Spadoni | Long-Term Care | Director, Communications | $230,739 | $230,962 |
| 5 | Jonathan Leigh | Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security | Director, Communications | $215,368 | $215,598 |
| 6 | Costanzo Fasciano | Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade | Director, Communications | $212,666 | $212,894 |
| 7 | Lynn Wong | Office Of The Chief Electoral Officer | Director, Communications / Directrice des communications | $211,338 | $211,607 |
| 8 | Rebecca Ganesathas | Attorney General | Director, Communications | $208,116 | $208,317 |
| 9 | Nemone Smith | Indigenous Affairs and First Nations Economic Reconciliation | Director of Communications | $205,160 | $205,377 |
| 10 | Andrea Corlett | Information And Privacy Commissioner | Director, Communications / Directrice, communications | $202,744 | $203,012 |
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. Last updated 2026-09-06.