Executive Director Salary in Ontario (2025)
10,721 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Other Public Sector Employers (88%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
794
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$138,896
+13.6% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$119,280–$167,824
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$650,000
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+
| Employer | People | Median | Top |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Metropolitan University | 18 | $176,834 | $281,181 |
| Ottawa Hospital | 13 | $235,625 | $255,562 |
| Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology | 12 | $172,637 | $211,213 |
| Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | 6 | $156,518 | $162,087 |
| Hamilton Health Sciences | 5 | $214,656 | $296,484 |
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcela Carena Lopez | Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics | Executive Director | $650,000 | $698,412 |
| 2 | Jeanne-Hélène Tardivel | Montfort Renaissance Inc | Directrice générale / Executive Director | $353,660 | $354,847 |
| 3 | Teresa Ellen Vasilopoulos | Woodgreen Community Services | Executive Director | $320,723 | $335,494 |
| 4 | Charalampos Gousopoulos | Tribunals Ontario | Executive Director | $298,231 | $298,518 |
| 5 | Donald Scott | Hamilton Health Sciences | Executive Director | $296,484 | $309,006 |
| 6 | Karen Martin | University Health Network | Executive Director | $283,298 | $283,785 |
| 7 | Charles Finlay | Toronto Metropolitan University | Executive Director | $281,181 | $282,309 |
| 8 | Nuzhat Jafri | Canadian Council Of Muslim Women | Executive Director | $265,000 | $265,000 |
| 9 | Kevin Sawicki | Solicitor General | Executive Director | $263,255 | $263,524 |
| 10 | Kelly Hoey | Halton Industry Education Council | Executive Director | $261,923 | $262,394 |
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 2026-09-05.