Fire Chief Salaries, 2025

134 disclosed on the 2025 Sunshine List · overview and trend →

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

All Records · 134 in 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
11	Paul Boissonneault	Town Of Oakville	Fire Chief	$222,006	$226,724
12	Stephen Barkwell	City Of Oshawa	Fire Chief	$221,011	$222,559
13	David Paxton	City Of Thunder Bay	Fire Chief	$218,040	$219,534
14	William Snowball	Town Of Whitchurch-Stouffville	Fire Chief	$216,942	$234,889
15	Karen Roche	City Of Burlington	Fire Chief	$216,311	$218,434
16	Christopher M Nearing	City Of Markham	Fire Chief	$215,036	$216,944
17	Robert Gilmore	City Of Kitchener	Fire Chief	$213,754	$218,468
18	Robin Martin	City Of Cambridge	Fire Chief	$211,866	$216,634
19	Jeffrey Weber	City Of Sarnia	Fire Chief	$211,619	$214,244
20	Chris Snetsinger	City Of Peterborough	Fire Chief	$210,772	$215,112
21	Rocco Volpe	Town Of Newmarket – Central York Fire Services	Fire Chief	$210,652	$212,777
22	Bryan Gordon Burbidge	City of Richmond Hill	Fire Chief	$210,286	$215,823
23	Richard Hepditch	City Of Waterloo	Fire Chief	$210,032	$214,087
24	Peter Johnson	City Of Sault Ste. Marie	Fire Chief	$208,718	$214,387
25	Terry Jones	City Of Kawartha Lakes	Fire Chief	$207,904	$209,729
26	Matthew Richardson	City Of Welland	Fire Chief	$207,640	$208,728
27	Todd Binkley	City Of Brantford	Fire Chief	$206,576	$213,154
28	Jason Whiteley	The Corporation of the City of North Bay	Fire Chief	$204,705	$206,515
29	Michael Rozario	Town Of Bradford West Gwillimbury	Fire Chief	$203,668	$211,936
30	Stephen Boyd	City Of Pickering	Fire Chief	$203,054	$211,944
31	Tom Raeburn	City of Richmond Hill	Fire Chief	$200,992	$211,810
32	David Gregory	City Of St. Thomas	Fire Chief	$200,107	$208,346
33	Stanley Double	City Of Port Colborne	Fire Chief	$198,877	$198,877
34	Chad Brown	County Of Prince Edward	Fire Chief	$195,722	$196,508
35	Gregory Hudson	Town Of Lincoln	Fire Chief	$195,118	$196,998
36	Neil Anderson	City Of Stratford	Fire Chief	$191,217	$192,741
37	Brent Thomas	Town Of Innisfil	Fire Chief	$191,121	$192,079
38	Joseph Zambito	City Of Niagara Falls	Fire Chief	$186,453	$187,035
39	Philip Eagleson	City Of Owen Sound	Fire Chief	$185,757	$192,548
40	Scott Atkinson	City Of Timmins	Fire Chief	$184,163	$185,232
41	Melanie Jones	City Of Brockville	Fire Chief	$182,728	$183,731
42	John Whelan	City Of Quinte West	Fire Chief	$176,264	$177,131
43	Michael Macdonald	Township Of Uxbridge	Fire Chief	$173,072	$174,727
44	Jason Suchiu	Town Of Lakeshore	Fire Chief	$172,545	$173,482
45	Terry Dixon	City Of Thorold	Fire Chief	$172,361	$174,376
46	Gary Mcrae	Town Of Deep River	Fire Chief	$172,313	$173,440
47	Robert Lymburner	Town Of Pelham	Fire Chief	$171,955	$175,074
48	Gordon Stilwell	Norfolk County	Fire Chief	$171,952	$176,065
49	Ellard Beaven	Town Of Cobourg	Fire Chief	$171,731	$172,633
50	Jeff Slager	City Of Woodstock	Fire Chief	$171,099	$172,688
51	Stephen Conn	Town Of The Blue Mountains	Fire Chief	$170,543	$171,724
52	Scott Selle	City Of Pembroke	Fire Chief	$170,100	$171,479
53	Chris Ferry	City Of Orillia	Fire Chief	$167,618	$169,918
54	John Snider	Town Of Orangeville	Fire Chief	$167,063	$168,166
55	Michael Mio	Town Of Amherstburg	Fire Chief	$166,170	$179,176
56	Frank Loeffen	Municipality Of West Nipissing	Fire Chief	$165,380	$167,310
57	John Holmes	Town Of Ingersoll	Fire Chief	$162,499	$165,030
58	Darren Watson	County Of Brant	Fire Chief	$162,053	$162,965
59	Randy Urslak	Municipality Of North Grenville	Fire Chief	$161,232	$162,984
60	Gene Thompson	Municipality Of Brighton	Fire Chief	$158,826	$159,919
61	David Hartwick	Township Of McNab/Braeside	Fire Chief	$158,005	$158,518
62	Guy Gallant	Municipality Of Kincardine	Fire Chief	$157,504	$158,418
63	Gord Howard	City Of Kenora	Fire Chief	$155,487	$157,450
64	Richard Vallee	Town Of Cochrane	Fire Chief	$154,802	$155,382
65	Scott Moore	Town Of Kingsville	Fire Chief	$154,515	$156,486
66	Wayne Riches	Town Of Fort Frances	Fire Chief	$152,807	$153,374
67	Naomi Thibault	City Of Sault Ste. Marie	Fire Chief	$152,718	$155,636
68	Gordon Jopling	Township Of Selwyn	Fire Chief	$152,553	$159,616
69	Michael Griffiths-Matthews	Township Of Scugog	Fire Chief	$151,481	$152,699
70	Jason Pillon	Town Of Essex	Fire Chief	$150,818	$155,184
71	Nicholas (Nick) Ruller	City Of Brampton	Fire Chief	$149,843	$154,137
72	Thomas Mulvey	Township Of Centre Wellington	Fire Chief	$148,196	$149,594
73	Rod Leeson	Township Of Wilmot	Fire Chief	$147,764	$148,069
74	Gary Monahan	Town Of Huntsville	Fire Chief	$147,703	$148,538
75	Doug Mackenzie	Village Of Point Edward	Fire Chief	$147,544	$148,737
76	Rick Harrison	Township Of Brock	Fire Chief	$145,928	$151,704
77	Earl Grigg	Town Of Kirkland Lake	Fire Chief	$145,488	$146,872
78	Scott Davison	Township Of Clearview	Fire Chief	$145,273	$146,043
79	Ryan Murrell	Township Of Muskoka Lakes	Fire Chief	$144,437	$149,582
80	Matthew Roy	Township Of North Glengarry	Fire Chief	$143,903	$145,334
81	Jeff Bradley	Township Of Huron-Kinloss	Fire Chief	$143,127	$150,366
82	Jeff Gautreau	Township Of Georgian Bluffs	Fire Chief	$142,912	$143,678
83	Michael Prior	Township Of Leeds And The Thousand Islands	Fire Chief	$141,319	$142,684
84	Timothy Kraemer	County Of Prince Edward	Fire Chief	$140,353	$141,226
85	Andrew Dickson	Town Of Gananoque	Fire Chief	$139,823	$141,034
86	Gordon Harrison	Township Of Carling	Fire Chief	$138,510	$139,329
87	Sean Carroll	Township Of Seguin	Fire Chief	$138,328	$139,308
88	Adam Eckhart	City Of Welland	Fire Chief	$137,745	$138,987
89	Stephen Rothwell	Township Of Lanark Highlands	Fire chief	$136,769	$139,645
90	Jeff Sargent	Township Of Elizabethtown-Kitley	Fire Chief	$135,899	$137,283
91	Richard Chesebrough	Town Of Smiths Falls	Fire Chief	$135,476	$136,294
92	Robert Shantz	Township Of North Dumfries	Fire Chief	$134,078	$134,654
93	Christopher Wood	City Of Dryden	Fire Chief	$133,725	$136,161
94	Paul Redman	Township Of Wellesley	Fire Chief	$133,537	$134,656
95	Derek Malynyk	Township Of Southgate	Fire Chief	$133,272	$134,392
96	Jack Burt	Municipality Of Northern Bruce Peninsula	Fire Chief	$133,093	$134,575
97	Douglas Burgin	Township Of Essa	Fire Chief	$130,888	$131,238
98	Morgan Alcock	Township Of Wainfleet	Fire Chief	$130,256	$132,530
99	Brian Moore	Township Of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal	Fire Chief	$130,091	$131,183
100	Dave Robertson	Township Of South Glengarry	Fire Chief	$129,591	$130,484
101	James Marshall	Municipality Of Lambton Shores	Fire Chief	$127,932	$129,007
102	Derrick Little	Township Of Stirling-Rawdon	Fire Chief	$127,550	$128,176
103	Jeremy Alldred-Hughes	Municipality Of South Dundas	Fire Chief	$127,114	$128,421
104	Daniel Chumbley	Municipality Of Dysart Et Al	Fire Chief	$126,943	$132,673
105	Jesse Lambe	Township Of North Kawartha	Fire Chief	$125,392	$128,253
106	Harry Baranik	Municipality Of Bayham	Fire Chief	$124,227	$124,995
107	Richard Desarmia	Town Of Arnprior	Fire Chief	$122,887	$123,439
108	Dennis Aldous	Township Of Woolwich	Fire Chief	$122,739	$123,375
109	William Balfour	Township Of Cavan Monaghan	Fire Chief	$122,699	$123,871
110	Jamie Macneil	Township Of Puslinch	Fire Chief	$121,901	$130,877
111	Shawn Jamieson	Municipality Of Trent Hills	Fire Chief	$121,704	$122,789
112	David Erb	Municipality Of Bluewater	Fire Chief	$121,673	$122,296
113	Raymond Haines	Township Of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen	Fire Chief	$121,653	$122,730
114	Gary Johnston	Municipality Of Southwest Middlesex	Fire Chief	$119,972	$122,761
115	Don Kruger	Township Of Minden Hills	Fire Chief	$119,099	$120,110
116	Marty Wellwood	Municipality Of Grey Highlands	Fire Chief	$118,446	$119,750
117	Monique Belair	City Of Kingston	Chief, Fire	$118,290	$119,285
118	Chris Mcdonough	Township Of Central Frontenac	Fire Chief	$118,162	$131,130
119	Steven Langford	City Of Temiskaming Shores	Fire Chief	$116,983	$118,226
120	Brian Wilson	Town Of Hawkesbury	Fire Chief	$116,982	$123,538
121	Tim Hofsink	Township Of West Lincoln	Fire Chief	$116,957	$118,006
122	Gene Richardson	Township Of Rideau Lakes	Fire Chief	$115,086	$119,566
123	Casey Cuddy	Township Of Addington Highlands	Fire Chief	$114,335	$114,335
124	Christopher Baughman	Municipality Of Highlands East	Fire Chief	$112,467	$113,974
125	Andrew Torrance	Village Of Sundridge	Fire Chief	$111,491	$112,645
126	Roch Bigras	Municipality Of French River	Fire Chief	$111,216	$112,086
127	Matthew Halmasy	Township Of Cramahe	Fire Chief	$107,938	$108,335
128	Patrick Shoebottom	Municipality Of McDougall	Fire Chief	$107,625	$108,808
129	Bryce Robinson	Municipality Of Hastings Highlands	Fire Chief	$107,504	$108,207
130	Ghislain Pigeon	Township Of Champlain	Fire Chief	$107,464	$111,880
131	William Mchale	Township Of Admaston/Bromley	Fire Chief	$105,955	$106,342
132	Michael Pichor	Town Of Espanola	Fire Chief	$103,891	$105,486
133	Steve Tiernan	Municipality Of Arran-Elderslie	Fire Chief	$103,404	$104,383
134	Joseph Readman	Township Of Ryerson	Fire Chief	$101,181	$101,771