Fire Chief Salary in Ontario (2025)
1,736 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Municipalities & Services (100%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
134
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$152,636
+24.8% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$127,932–$195,722
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$251,327
Who is the highest-paid Fire Chief in Ontario?
The highest-paid Fire Chief on the 2025 Sunshine List was Paul Hutt at City Of Ottawa, with a salary of $251,327; the median among the 134 listed under this title was $152,636.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
At the 2025 median salary of $152,636, a Fire Chief keeps roughly $105,337 after income tax, CPP and EI (about 27.4% effective), or about $8,778 a month. Half of those listed earned between $127,932 and $195,722. Across every sector the 2025 median was $122,262, so this position sits about 25% above it. Most Municipalities & Services employees belong to OMERS, so actual take-home is likely another 7–10% lower after pension contributions.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$105,337
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~27.4%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$8,778
Where does $152,636 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 | Paul Hutt | City Of Ottawa | Fire Chief | $251,327 | $255,562 |
| 2 | Lori Ann Hamer | City Of London | Fire Chief | $248,281 | $257,068 |
| 3 | Christopher Case | Municipality Of Chatham-Kent | Fire Chief | $236,130 | $237,858 |
| 4 | Andrew Zvanitajs | City Of Vaughan | Fire Chief | $235,420 | $244,026 |
| 5 | Michael Hickey | Town Of Whitby | Fire Chief | $231,544 | $234,852 |
| 6 | David Cunliffe | City Of Hamilton | Fire Chief | $230,763 | $253,386 |
| 7 | James Waffle | City Of Windsor | Fire Chief | $225,255 | $227,420 |
| 8 | Peter Gatto | Town Of Milton | Fire Chief | $224,901 | $226,985 |
| 9 | Aaron Burridge | Town Of Ajax | Fire Chief | $223,710 | $228,213 |
| 10 | Cory Mainprize | Town Of East Gwillimbury | Fire Chief | $223,673 | $227,084 |
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.