Physicist Salary in Ontario (2025)
748 disclosed records, 1999–2025 · mostly Hospitals & Boards of Public Health (92%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
34
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$255,334
+108.8% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$202,088–$258,191
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$269,362
Who is the highest-paid Physicist in Ontario?
The highest-paid Physicist on the 2025 Sunshine List was Sara Gholampourkashi at The Ottawa Hospital, with a salary of $269,362; the median among the 34 listed under this title was $255,334.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
At the 2025 median salary of $255,334, a Physicist keeps roughly $158,611 after income tax, CPP and EI (about 35.7% effective), or about $13,218 a month. That is about 109% above the 2025 median across the whole list, $122,262. The 2025 list carries 34 people filed as Physicist. The middle half of Physicist salaries ran from $202,088 to $258,191. After pension contributions (probably HOOPP in this sector), take-home is usually a further 7–10% lower.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$158,611
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~35.7%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$13,218
Where does $255,334 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+
| Employer | People | Median | Top | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa Hospital | 14 | $257,162 | $269,362 | Pay here → |
| Lakeridge Health | 6 | $256,665 | $260,034 | Pay here → |
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sara Gholampourkashi | The Ottawa Hospital | Physicist/Physicien | $269,362 | $270,062 |
| 2 | Kurtis Dekker | Kingston Health Sciences Centre | Physicist\Physicien | $268,551 | $269,163 |
| 3 | Joshua Gaul | Windsor Regional Hospital | Physicist / Physicien | $268,258 | $269,041 |
| 4 | Elsayed Ali | The Ottawa Hospital | Physicist/Physicien | $260,707 | $261,444 |
| 5 | Eric Vandervoort | The Ottawa Hospital | Physicist/Physicien | $260,476 | $261,214 |
| 6 | Syed Bilal Ahmad | Lakeridge Health | Physicist | $260,034 | $260,878 |
| 7 | Chun-Bun Kwok | The Ottawa Hospital | Physicist/Physicien | $259,011 | $259,748 |
| 8 | Katie Lekx-Toniolo | The Ottawa Hospital | Physicist/Physicien | $258,466 | $259,203 |
| 9 | Xiangyang Mei | Kingston Health Sciences Centre | Physicist\Physicien | $258,191 | $258,803 |
| 10 | Claire Foottit | The Ottawa Hospital | Physicist/Physicien | $258,060 | $258,797 |
By Year
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- Registered Nurse31,254
- Manager2,664
- Nurse Practitioner1,832
- Social Worker1,812
- Pharmacist1,371
- Physiotherapist1,351
- Registered Practical Nurse1,317
- Occupational Therapist1,181
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.