Secondary Teacher Salary in Ontario (2025)
103,683 disclosed records, 1999–2025 · mostly School Boards (100%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
19,973
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$118,069
-3.4% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$116,748–$122,739
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$223,394
Who is the highest-paid Secondary Teacher in Ontario?
The highest-paid Secondary Teacher on the 2025 Sunshine List was Michelle Jurkovic at Greater Essex County District School Board, with a salary of $223,394; the median among the 19,973 listed under this title was $118,069.
Take-Home Pay
(After Tax) · 2025 estimate
A Secondary Teacher paid the 2025 median of $118,069 would take home roughly $85,799 after income tax, CPP and EI — about $7,150 a month, an effective rate of about 22.7%. Half of those listed earned between $116,748 and $122,739. Across every sector the 2025 median was $122,262, so this position sits about 3% below it. Most School Boards employees belong to OTPP for teachers or OMERS, so actual take-home is likely another 7–10% lower after pension contributions.
- Estimated net pay
- ~$85,799
- Effective income-tax rate (excl. CPP/EI)
- ~22.7%
- CPP + EI contributions
- ~$5,507
- Per month, after tax
- ~$7,150
Where does $118,069 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+
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michelle Jurkovic | Greater Essex County District School Board | Secondary Teacher | $223,394 | $223,394 |
| 2 | Colin Timothy Matthew | Trillium Lakelands District School Board | Teacher – Secondary | $201,840 | $201,840 |
| 3 | Kimberly A Duggan | District School Board Of Niagara | Secondary Teacher | $195,475 | $195,475 |
| 4 | Jessica Barrie | Simcoe County District School Board | Secondary Teacher | $195,316 | $195,316 |
| 5 | Lisa Sterrett | York Region District School Board | Secondary Teacher | $195,197 | $195,197 |
| 6 | Richard Gallacher | Toronto Catholic District School Board | Teacher – Secondary | $185,622 | $185,724 |
| 7 | Terrence Kruger | Toronto Catholic District School Board | Teacher – Secondary | $181,095 | $181,197 |
| 8 | Monika Milek-Hopkins | Simcoe County District School Board | Secondary Teacher | $178,355 | $178,355 |
| 9 | Kathy Cepo | London District Catholic School Board | Secondary Teacher | $177,336 | $177,336 |
| 10 | Michael Consul | Toronto Catholic District School Board | Teacher – Secondary | $177,208 | $177,295 |
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.