Ontario Sunshine List 2024
The $100,000 disclosure threshold has not been adjusted for inflation since 1996. $100,000 in 2024 is worth about $102,051 in 2025 dollars.
2024 data last updated .
2024 Overview
On the List
377,664+25.6% vs 2023
Total Compensation
$50.3BSalaries + taxable benefits
Average Salary
$132,497+4.4% vs 2023
Top Earner
$2,018,436Kenneth Hartwick · salary + benefits
Year over Year
Top Earners
2024
Sector Breakdown
2024
Total compensation by sector
Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
2023 → 2024
Michelle DiEmanuele at Cabinet Office had the largest increase in disclosed pay on the 2024 Sunshine List: $179,096 to $641,328, up 258.1%.
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.
Biggest Cuts
2023 → 2024
Michael Martelli at Ontario Power Generation had the largest decrease in disclosed pay on the 2024 Sunshine List: $972,747 to $573,712, down 41.0%.
New to the List
2024
80,694 people are new to the 2024 Sunshine List. The highest-paid was Peter N Werstiuk at Quantum Valley Ideas Laboratories ($549,596).
Left the List
2023 → 2024
25,621 people on the 2023 Sunshine List did not appear on the 2024 list; Regional Municipality of Durham had the most, 1,175.