Director of Public Works Salary in Ontario (2025)
816 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Municipalities & Services (100%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
67
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$146,440
+19.8% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$132,132–$162,892
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$221,393
Who is the highest-paid Director of Public Works in Ontario?
The highest-paid Director of Public Works on the 2025 Sunshine List was W. Samantha Fraser at Township Of King, with a salary of $221,393; the median among the 67 listed under this title was $146,440.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
A Director of Public Works paid the 2025 median of $146,440 would take home roughly $101,854 after income tax, CPP and EI — about $8,488 a month, an effective rate of about 26.7%. Half of those listed earned between $132,132 and $162,892. The 2025 list carries 67 people filed as Director of Public Works. Most Municipalities & Services employees belong to OMERS, so actual take-home is likely another 7–10% lower after pension contributions.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$101,854
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~26.7%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$8,488
Where does $146,440 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 | W. Samantha Fraser | Township Of King | Director of Public Works | $221,393 | $222,483 |
| 2 | Jonathan Osborne | Town Of Lasalle | Director of Public Works | $211,583 | $213,466 |
| 3 | Denise Marshall | County Of Northumberland | Director, Public Works | $198,019 | $199,016 |
| 4 | Stephen Shypowskyj | City Of Port Colborne | Director of Public Works | $191,793 | $192,954 |
| 5 | Mark Covert | Town Of Halton Hills | Director of Public Works | $186,839 | $187,995 |
| 6 | Melissa Abercrombie | County Of Oxford | Director of Public Works | $183,712 | $184,866 |
| 7 | Ryan Brown | Municipality Of Chatham-Kent | Director, Public Works | $182,742 | $184,049 |
| 8 | Jeff Meggitt | Town Of East Gwillimbury | Director, Public Works | $179,554 | $188,318 |
| 9 | Jason Marr | Town Of Pelham | Director of Public Works | $177,180 | $178,344 |
| 10 | Scott W Holmes | Town Of Caledon | Director Public Works | $173,669 | $174,627 |
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.