Top 100 Ontario Sunshine List Salaries, 2023

The 2023 top 100 ranges from $1,932,912 down to $510,801 in total compensation. Hospitals & Boards of Public Health accounts for 40% of this list, followed by Universities at 25%. Making the cut took $510,801 in total compensation this year, up 2.1% from $500,383 the year before.

These are the 2023 Ontario Sunshine List's 100 highest-paid public sector employees, as disclosed under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996.

#	Name	Employer	Salary	Benefits	Total
1	Kenneth Hartwick	Ontario Power Generation	$1,925,372	$7,540	$1,932,912
2	Dominique Miniere	Ontario Power Generation	$1,194,533	$3,269	$1,197,801
3	Michael Martelli	Ontario Power Generation	$972,747	$3,178	$975,925
4	Kevin Smith	University Health Network	$844,992	$90,619	$935,612
5	Christopher Ginther	Ontario Power Generation	$889,925	$7,127	$897,052
6	Nicolle Butcher	Ontario Power Generation	$894,783	$1,287	$896,070
7	Ronald Cohn	The Hospital For Sick Children	$851,414	$17,638	$869,052
8	Phil Verster	Metrolinx / Metrolinx	$838,097	$13,393	$851,490
9	Matthew Anderson	Ontario Health / Santé Ontario	$821,000	$10,802	$831,803
10	Mark Fuller	Ontario Public Service Pension Board (Ontario Pension Board) / Commission Du Régime De Retraite Des Fonctionnaires De L'Ontario (Commission Du Régime De Retraite D)	$826,539	$572	$827,111
11	Andy Smith	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	$765,102	$49,976	$815,078
12	Steve Gregoris	Ontario Power Generation	$809,566	$3,126	$812,693
13	Jon Franke	Ontario Power Generation	$803,730	$1,978	$805,707
14	Jackie Schleifer Taylor	London Health Sciences Centre	$786,003	$17,581	$803,584
15	Timothy Rutledge	Unity Health Toronto	$771,236	$27,118	$798,354
16	Alfred Hannay	Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation / Société des loteries et des jeux de l'Ontario	$709,582	$1,536	$711,118
17	David Graham	Scarborough Health Network	$689,226	$21,090	$710,316
18	Gary Newton	Sinai Health System	$705,928	$2,040	$707,968
19	David G. Vingoe	Ontario Securities Commission / Commission des valeurs mobilières de l'Ontario	$697,972	$2,952	$700,924
20	Robert Macisaac	Hamilton Health Sciences	$687,201	$7,141	$694,342
21	Altaf Stationwala	MacKenzie Health	$679,466	$14,275	$693,741
22	Lesley Gallinger	Independent Electricity System Operator / Opérateur indépendant de réseau d'électricité	$689,059	$793	$689,852
23	Mark Knutson	Ontario Power Generation	$682,378	$2,506	$684,884
24	Birgit Betina Ertl-Wagner	The Hospital For Sick Children	$682,450	$849	$683,299
25	Elizabeth Buller	St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton	$657,635	$24,860	$682,496
26	Aida Cipolla	Ontario Power Generation	$679,657	$2,237	$681,894
27	Linda Mohri	Centre For Addiction And Mental Health	$675,832	$2,536	$678,368
28	Karli Farrow	Trillium Health Partners	$668,325	$3,334	$671,660
29	Yung Wu	MaRS Discovery District	$650,625	$15,707	$666,332
30	Michelle DiEmanuele	Trillium Health Partners	$663,841	$1,639	$665,479
31	Cameron Love	The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hopital d'Ottawa	$647,124	$16,567	$663,691
32	Gadi Mayman	Ontario Financing Authority / Office ontarien de financement	$651,417	$782	$652,199
33	Brian Golden	University Of Toronto	$650,860	$258	$651,118
34	Barbara Collins	Humber River Health	$628,700	$21,188	$649,888
35	Kenneth Dr. Boss	North Bay Regional Health Centre / Centre regional de sante de North Bay	$639,131	$0	$639,131
36	Mohit Bhandari	McMaster University	$632,225	$551	$632,776
37	Sarah Downey	Centre For Addiction And Mental Health	$625,574	$5,256	$630,830
38	Joao Amaral	The Hospital For Sick Children	$628,091	$849	$628,939
39	Manohar Shroff	The Hospital For Sick Children	$625,902	$849	$626,751
40	Daniel Cass	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	$604,753	$19,876	$624,629
41	Dimitri Parra	The Hospital For Sick Children	$616,550	$849	$617,399
42	Melissa Hogg	Ontario Power Generation	$612,792	$4,493	$617,285
43	David Pichora	Kingston Health Sciences Centre	$612,389	$934	$613,323
44	Brian Silverman	University Of Toronto	$611,828	$258	$612,086
45	Subo Sinnathamby	Ontario Power Generation	$601,856	$2,799	$604,655
46	Doris Grinspun	Registered Nurses Association Of Ontario	$601,376	$0	$601,376
47	Tracey Macarthur	Centre For Addiction And Mental Health	$595,125	$5,256	$600,381
48	Johan Viljoen	Niagara Health System	$587,406	$12,722	$600,128
49	Alan Aspuru-Guzik	University Of Toronto	$562,716	$35,856	$598,572
50	Sharon Hodgson	University Of Western Ontario	$596,392	$89	$596,482
51	Meric Gertler	University Of Toronto	$486,192	$104,423	$590,615
52	Ronald Gagnon	Grand River Hospital Corporation	$585,695	$2,562	$588,256
53	Richard Leary	City Of Toronto - Toronto Transit Commission	$562,326	$22,943	$585,269
54	John Yoo	University Of Western Ontario	$584,737	$89	$584,827
55	Brenda Macdonald	Ontario Power Generation	$582,920	$1,816	$584,736
56	George Soleas	Liquor Control Board Of Ontario / Régie des alcools de l'Ontario	$563,291	$21,018	$584,310
57	Helen Branson	The Hospital For Sick Children	$576,610	$849	$577,459
58	Pradeep Krishnan	The Hospital For Sick Children	$576,239	$849	$577,088
59	Alessandro Gasparetto	The Hospital For Sick Children	$576,036	$849	$576,885
60	Richard Geofroy	Ontario Power Generation	$574,706	$1,632	$576,338
61	Prakash Muthusami	The Hospital For Sick Children	$575,073	$849	$575,922
62	Robert Myers	Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics	$573,501	$1,198	$574,698
63	Wei-Yi (Scott) Liao	University Of Toronto	$570,724	$2,215	$572,939
64	David Goldreich	University Of Toronto	$564,232	$306	$564,538
65	Gail Hunt	Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre	$510,829	$49,501	$560,329
66	Stephen Scherer	The Hospital For Sick Children	$558,624	$998	$559,622
67	Sonia Baxendale	Global Risk Institute In Financial Services	$540,000	$19,253	$559,253
68	Anita Mcgahan	University Of Toronto	$557,594	$107	$557,702
69	David Kaposi	Ontario Power Generation	$554,250	$1,848	$556,098
70	Michael Lindsay	Ontario Infrastructure And Lands Corporation (Infrastructure Ontario) / Société Ontarienne Des Infrastructures Et De L’Immobilier (Infrastructure Ontario)	$544,897	$6,426	$551,323
71	Suzanne Laughlin	The Hospital For Sick Children	$549,680	$849	$550,528
72	Anthony Tang	University Of Western Ontario	$550,000	$27	$550,027
73	Lynn Guerriero	Niagara Health System	$533,688	$16,333	$550,021
74	Jane Philpott	Queen's University	$546,053	$272	$546,325
75	George Chiramel	The Hospital For Sick Children	$543,693	$870	$544,563
76	Thomas Parker	Unity Health Toronto	$538,300	$5,648	$543,947
77	Heather Ferguson	Ontario Power Generation	$536,089	$718	$536,806
78	Joshua Basseches	Royal Ontario Museum / Musée royal de l'Ontario	$533,112	$3,052	$536,164
79	Rupinder Taggar	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	$498,877	$35,075	$533,952
80	Duncan Stewart	Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	$522,502	$10,246	$532,748
81	Andrea Krystal	Southlake Regional Health Centre	$521,787	$10,400	$532,187
82	Moon Hung Wong	University Of Toronto	$530,178	$1,091	$531,270
83	Alexander Dyck	University Of Toronto	$530,667	$258	$530,925
84	Mark White	Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario / Office Ontarien De Réglementation Des Services Financiers	$526,815	$1,673	$528,488
85	William Strange	University Of Toronto	$527,992	$215	$528,207
86	Frank Martino	William Osler Health System	$509,899	$18,000	$527,899
87	Scott Beck	Toronto Convention and Visitors Association	$524,615	$1,251	$525,866
88	Alan Shepard	University Of Western Ontario	$484,000	$41,275	$525,275
89	Meredith Irwin	The Hospital For Sick Children	$524,045	$998	$525,043
90	Shelley Babin	Ontario Power Generation	$522,640	$1,521	$524,161
91	Glen Whyte	University Of Toronto	$522,941	$129	$523,070
92	Partha Sarat Mohanram	University Of Toronto	$521,203	$129	$521,332
93	John Hull	University Of Toronto	$518,747	$0	$518,747
94	Mihnea Moldoveanu	University Of Toronto	$512,922	$4,194	$517,116
95	Gerhard Trippen	University Of Toronto	$515,033	$129	$515,162
96	Karyn Lynn Popovich	North York General Hospital	$513,011	$1,827	$514,838
97	David Palmer	University Of Toronto	$438,611	$75,108	$513,719
98	Craig Andrew Doidge	University Of Toronto	$512,894	$258	$513,152
99	Elspeth Murray	Queen's University	$512,348	$272	$512,621
100	Mikhail Simutin	University Of Toronto	$505,246	$5,555	$510,801

#1Kenneth Hartwick

$1,932,912

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $1,925,372 + benefits $7,540

#2Dominique Miniere

$1,197,801

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $1,194,533 + benefits $3,269

#3Michael Martelli

$975,925

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $972,747 + benefits $3,178

#4Kevin Smith

$935,612

University Health Network

Salary $844,992 + benefits $90,619

#5Christopher Ginther

$897,052

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $889,925 + benefits $7,127

#6Nicolle Butcher

$896,070

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $894,783 + benefits $1,287

#7Ronald Cohn

$869,052

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $851,414 + benefits $17,638

#8Phil Verster

$851,490

Metrolinx / Metrolinx

Salary $838,097 + benefits $13,393

#9Matthew Anderson

$831,803

Ontario Health / Santé Ontario

Salary $821,000 + benefits $10,802

#10Mark Fuller

$827,111

Ontario Public Service Pension Board (Ontario Pension Board) / Commission Du Régime De Retraite Des Fonctionnaires De L'Ontario (Commission Du Régime De Retraite D)

Salary $826,539 + benefits $572

#11Andy Smith

$815,078

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Salary $765,102 + benefits $49,976

#12Steve Gregoris

$812,693

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $809,566 + benefits $3,126

#13Jon Franke

$805,707

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $803,730 + benefits $1,978

#14Jackie Schleifer Taylor

$803,584

London Health Sciences Centre

Salary $786,003 + benefits $17,581

#15Timothy Rutledge

$798,354

Unity Health Toronto

Salary $771,236 + benefits $27,118

#16Alfred Hannay

$711,118

Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation / Société des loteries et des jeux de l'Ontario

Salary $709,582 + benefits $1,536

#17David Graham

$710,316

Scarborough Health Network

Salary $689,226 + benefits $21,090

#18Gary Newton

$707,968

Sinai Health System

Salary $705,928 + benefits $2,040

#19David G. Vingoe

$700,924

Ontario Securities Commission / Commission des valeurs mobilières de l'Ontario

Salary $697,972 + benefits $2,952

#20Robert Macisaac

$694,342

Hamilton Health Sciences

Salary $687,201 + benefits $7,141

#21Altaf Stationwala

$693,741

MacKenzie Health

Salary $679,466 + benefits $14,275

#22Lesley Gallinger

$689,852

Independent Electricity System Operator / Opérateur indépendant de réseau d'électricité

Salary $689,059 + benefits $793

#23Mark Knutson

$684,884

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $682,378 + benefits $2,506

#24Birgit Betina Ertl-Wagner

$683,299

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $682,450 + benefits $849

#25Elizabeth Buller

$682,496

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

Salary $657,635 + benefits $24,860

#26Aida Cipolla

$681,894

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $679,657 + benefits $2,237

#27Linda Mohri

$678,368

Centre For Addiction And Mental Health

Salary $675,832 + benefits $2,536

#28Karli Farrow

$671,660

Trillium Health Partners

Salary $668,325 + benefits $3,334

#29Yung Wu

$666,332

MaRS Discovery District

Salary $650,625 + benefits $15,707

#30Michelle DiEmanuele

$665,479

Trillium Health Partners

Salary $663,841 + benefits $1,639

#31Cameron Love

$663,691

The Ottawa Hospital / L'Hopital d'Ottawa

Salary $647,124 + benefits $16,567

#32Gadi Mayman

$652,199

Ontario Financing Authority / Office ontarien de financement

Salary $651,417 + benefits $782

#33Brian Golden

$651,118

University Of Toronto

Salary $650,860 + benefits $258

#34Barbara Collins

$649,888

Humber River Health

Salary $628,700 + benefits $21,188

#35Kenneth Dr. Boss

$639,131

North Bay Regional Health Centre / Centre regional de sante de North Bay

Salary $639,131 + benefits $0

#36Mohit Bhandari

$632,776

McMaster University

Salary $632,225 + benefits $551

#37Sarah Downey

$630,830

Centre For Addiction And Mental Health

Salary $625,574 + benefits $5,256

#38Joao Amaral

$628,939

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $628,091 + benefits $849

#39Manohar Shroff

$626,751

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $625,902 + benefits $849

#40Daniel Cass

$624,629

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Salary $604,753 + benefits $19,876

#41Dimitri Parra

$617,399

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $616,550 + benefits $849

#42Melissa Hogg

$617,285

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $612,792 + benefits $4,493

#43David Pichora

$613,323

Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Salary $612,389 + benefits $934

#44Brian Silverman

$612,086

University Of Toronto

Salary $611,828 + benefits $258

#45Subo Sinnathamby

$604,655

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $601,856 + benefits $2,799

#46Doris Grinspun

$601,376

Registered Nurses Association Of Ontario

Salary $601,376 + benefits $0

#47Tracey Macarthur

$600,381

Centre For Addiction And Mental Health

Salary $595,125 + benefits $5,256

#48Johan Viljoen

$600,128

Niagara Health System

Salary $587,406 + benefits $12,722

#49Alan Aspuru-Guzik

$598,572

University Of Toronto

Salary $562,716 + benefits $35,856

#50Sharon Hodgson

$596,482

University Of Western Ontario

Salary $596,392 + benefits $89

#51Meric Gertler

$590,615

University Of Toronto

Salary $486,192 + benefits $104,423

#52Ronald Gagnon

$588,256

Grand River Hospital Corporation

Salary $585,695 + benefits $2,562

#53Richard Leary

$585,269

City Of Toronto - Toronto Transit Commission

Salary $562,326 + benefits $22,943

#54John Yoo

$584,827

University Of Western Ontario

Salary $584,737 + benefits $89

#55Brenda Macdonald

$584,736

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $582,920 + benefits $1,816

#56George Soleas

$584,310

Liquor Control Board Of Ontario / Régie des alcools de l'Ontario

Salary $563,291 + benefits $21,018

#57Helen Branson

$577,459

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $576,610 + benefits $849

#58Pradeep Krishnan

$577,088

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $576,239 + benefits $849

#59Alessandro Gasparetto

$576,885

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $576,036 + benefits $849

#60Richard Geofroy

$576,338

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $574,706 + benefits $1,632

#61Prakash Muthusami

$575,922

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $575,073 + benefits $849

#62Robert Myers

$574,698

Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics

Salary $573,501 + benefits $1,198

#63Wei-Yi (Scott) Liao

$572,939

University Of Toronto

Salary $570,724 + benefits $2,215

#64David Goldreich

$564,538

University Of Toronto

Salary $564,232 + benefits $306

#65Gail Hunt

$560,329

Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre

Salary $510,829 + benefits $49,501

#66Stephen Scherer

$559,622

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $558,624 + benefits $998

#67Sonia Baxendale

$559,253

Global Risk Institute In Financial Services

Salary $540,000 + benefits $19,253

#68Anita Mcgahan

$557,702

University Of Toronto

Salary $557,594 + benefits $107

#69David Kaposi

$556,098

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $554,250 + benefits $1,848

#70Michael Lindsay

$551,323

Ontario Infrastructure And Lands Corporation (Infrastructure Ontario) / Société Ontarienne Des Infrastructures Et De L’Immobilier (Infrastructure Ontario)

Salary $544,897 + benefits $6,426

#71Suzanne Laughlin

$550,528

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $549,680 + benefits $849

#72Anthony Tang

$550,027

University Of Western Ontario

Salary $550,000 + benefits $27

#73Lynn Guerriero

$550,021

Niagara Health System

Salary $533,688 + benefits $16,333

#74Jane Philpott

$546,325

Queen's University

Salary $546,053 + benefits $272

#75George Chiramel

$544,563

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $543,693 + benefits $870

#76Thomas Parker

$543,947

Unity Health Toronto

Salary $538,300 + benefits $5,648

#77Heather Ferguson

$536,806

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $536,089 + benefits $718

#78Joshua Basseches

$536,164

Royal Ontario Museum / Musée royal de l'Ontario

Salary $533,112 + benefits $3,052

#79Rupinder Taggar

$533,952

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Salary $498,877 + benefits $35,075

#80Duncan Stewart

$532,748

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Salary $522,502 + benefits $10,246

#81Andrea Krystal

$532,187

Southlake Regional Health Centre

Salary $521,787 + benefits $10,400

#82Moon Hung Wong

$531,270

University Of Toronto

Salary $530,178 + benefits $1,091

#83Alexander Dyck

$530,925

University Of Toronto

Salary $530,667 + benefits $258

#84Mark White

$528,488

Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario / Office Ontarien De Réglementation Des Services Financiers

Salary $526,815 + benefits $1,673

#85William Strange

$528,207

University Of Toronto

Salary $527,992 + benefits $215

#86Frank Martino

$527,899

William Osler Health System

Salary $509,899 + benefits $18,000

#87Scott Beck

$525,866

Toronto Convention and Visitors Association

Salary $524,615 + benefits $1,251

#88Alan Shepard

$525,275

University Of Western Ontario

Salary $484,000 + benefits $41,275

#89Meredith Irwin

$525,043

The Hospital For Sick Children

Salary $524,045 + benefits $998

#90Shelley Babin

$524,161

Ontario Power Generation

Salary $522,640 + benefits $1,521

#91Glen Whyte

$523,070

University Of Toronto

Salary $522,941 + benefits $129

#92Partha Sarat Mohanram

$521,332

University Of Toronto

Salary $521,203 + benefits $129

#93John Hull

$518,747

University Of Toronto

Salary $518,747 + benefits $0

#94Mihnea Moldoveanu

$517,116

University Of Toronto

Salary $512,922 + benefits $4,194

#95Gerhard Trippen

$515,162

University Of Toronto

Salary $515,033 + benefits $129

#96Karyn Lynn Popovich

$514,838

North York General Hospital

Salary $513,011 + benefits $1,827

#97David Palmer

$513,719

University Of Toronto

Salary $438,611 + benefits $75,108

#98Craig Andrew Doidge

$513,152

University Of Toronto

Salary $512,894 + benefits $258

#99Elspeth Murray

$512,621

Queen's University

Salary $512,348 + benefits $272

#100Mikhail Simutin

$510,801

University Of Toronto

Salary $505,246 + benefits $5,555

Ranked by each person’s highest single disclosure in the year: a duplicate filing collapses to one row, and a person with two employers appears once, at their higher-paying role. Ties are broken alphabetically by name.

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