Professor & Chair Salary in Ontario (2025)
732 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Universities (100%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
39
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$216,042
+76.7% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$191,292–$238,819
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$270,064
Who is the highest-paid Professor & Chair in Ontario?
The highest-paid Professor & Chair on the 2025 Sunshine List was Sheng Deng at Brock University, with a salary of $270,064; the median among the 39 listed under this title was $216,042.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
Federal and Ontario income tax on the 2025 Professor & Chair median of $216,042 comes to about 33.2%, leaving roughly $138,853 a year — about $11,571 a month. That is about 77% above the 2025 median across the whole list, $122,262. 39 people were listed under this title in 2025. Half of those listed earned between $191,292 and $238,819. This estimate leaves out pension contributions; members of OMERS, OTPP, HOOPP or OPTrust typically take home another 7–10% less.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$138,853
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~33.2%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$11,571
Where does $216,042 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brock University | 20 | $198,989 | $270,064 | Pay here → |
| University of Guelph | 18 | $229,469 | $265,401 | Pay here → |
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheng Deng | Brock University | Professor / Chair | $270,064 | $270,734 |
| 2 | Todd Duffield | University Of Guelph | Professor and Chair | $265,401 | $266,050 |
| 3 | Anteneh W. Ayanso | Brock University | Professor / Chair | $265,266 | $265,936 |
| 4 | Christopher Riley | University Of Guelph | Professor and Chair | $265,048 | $265,688 |
| 5 | Tarek Saleh | University Of Guelph | Professor and Chair | $260,241 | $261,185 |
| 6 | Pascale Lapointe-Antunes | Brock University | Professor / Chair | $257,107 | $257,777 |
| 7 | Coral Murrant | University Of Guelph | Professor and Chair | $249,638 | $250,550 |
| 8 | Stefan Kycia | University Of Guelph | Professor and Chair | $242,251 | $242,852 |
| 9 | Dave Bouckenooghe | Brock University | Professor / Chair | $240,345 | $241,418 |
| 10 | Beatrice Ombuki-Berman | Brock University | Professor / Chair | $238,819 | $239,489 |
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.