What was the largest increase in disclosed pay at University of Toronto in 2018?

University of Toronto's largest increase in disclosed pay in 2018: $120,795 to $355,385, up 194.2%; it went to Hai Lu. Across 2,536 people whose disclosed pay increased that year, the median increase was 4.3%.

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Hai Lu →

Largest increase (by dollars)

$234,589

Hai Lu · +194.2%

Had an increase

2,536

2017 → 2018

Median increase

+4.3%

among those who had one

On the list

4,037

2018 Sunshine List

Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
University of Toronto · 2017 → 2018

A year-over-year increase or decrease in disclosed pay can include overtime, a retroactive payment, a vacation payout or severance, not only a change in base pay, rate, or role — the Sunshine List discloses total salary paid that year, not a pay rate. This list is ranked by the dollar increase, not by the percentage shown.

Hai Lu+194.2%
Professor of Accounting
$120,795 → $355,385
Katherine Decelles+109.8%
Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
$114,621 → $240,442
Gustavo Bobonis+102.4%
Professor of Economics
$104,046 → $210,585
Jingsong Ma+95.1%
Lecturer, Department of Language Studies
$106,826 → $208,418
William Cunningham+40.7%
Professor of Psychology
$202,781 → $285,392
Andreas Park+29.1%
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Management
$274,196 → $353,977
George Quan Fun+30.9%
Professor, Teaching Stream and Associate Chair of Management; Co-Academic Director of the Master of Accounting and Finance Program
$229,720 → $300,791
Richard Day+52.5%
Professor of Political Science
$132,319 → $201,828
Opher Baron+26.8%
Professor of Operations Management and Statistics
$247,618 → $313,936
Michelle Alexopoulos+33.8%
Professor of Economics
$191,912 → $256,813

518 people were new to University of Toronto's list in 2018; 249 who were on it in 2017 were not. See the full 2018 roster →

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Method. Figures are salary paid, the same basis the year pages use for their movers sections. A mover is excluded from the raises above when their 2017 record was their first year at University of Toronto (a partial year, such as a September hire, that a full second year then dwarfs and misreads as an outsized raise), or when their 2018 record is their very last on the Sunshine List — a partial final year before leaving looks identical to a real change in pay until next year's data confirms it. This page does not list pay cuts: even the province-wide 2018 Sunshine List omits cuts for its own most recent year, since a partial final year before leaving looks identical to a real cut until next year’s data arrives — that same reasoning applies to every employer, in every year, so cuts are left off this page entirely rather than showing them in some years and not others. Counts under five people show “<5”. Data runs through 2025. The 2018 figures were published here on .