Elementary Teacher Salary in Ontario (2025)
161,788 disclosed records, 1998–2025 · mostly School Boards (100%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
42,538
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$118,036
-3.5% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$115,582–$124,511
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$256,899
Who is the highest-paid Elementary Teacher in Ontario?
The highest-paid Elementary Teacher on the 2025 Sunshine List was Gorian Surlan at Toronto District School Board, with a salary of $256,899; the median among the 42,538 listed under this title was $118,036.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
Federal and Ontario income tax on the 2025 Elementary Teacher median of $118,036 comes to about 22.7%, leaving roughly $85,781 a year — about $7,148 a month. The middle half of Elementary Teacher salaries ran from $115,582 to $124,511. The 2025 list carries 42,538 people filed as Elementary Teacher. Most School Boards employees belong to OTPP for teachers or OMERS, so actual take-home is likely another 7–10% lower after pension contributions.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$85,781
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~22.7%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$7,148
Where does $118,036 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.
Where They Work
2025 · employers with 5+
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorian Surlan | Toronto District School Board | Teacher, Elementary | $256,899 | $256,899 |
| 2 | David Mastin | Durham District School Board | Elementary Teacher | $210,367 | $210,367 |
| 3 | Karen Brown | Toronto District School Board | Teacher, Elementary | $209,550 | $209,550 |
| 4 | Heather Dodgson | Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board | Elementary Teacher | $206,233 | $206,233 |
| 5 | Ritch Couper | Toronto District School Board | Teacher, Elementary | $201,195 | $201,195 |
| 6 | Meena Sanyal | Toronto District School Board | Teacher, Elementary | $198,287 | $198,287 |
| 7 | Daniela Bucci | York Region District School Board | Elementary Teacher | $197,292 | $197,292 |
| 8 | Sarah Smart | Toronto District School Board | Teacher, Elementary | $194,580 | $196,330 |
| 9 | Ghazal Meyer | Toronto District School Board | Teacher, Elementary | $192,766 | $192,766 |
| 10 | Nola Lee | Toronto District School Board | Teacher, Elementary | $191,716 | $193,220 |
By Year
Related Positions
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.