Ontario Sunshine List 2025

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2025 data last updated .

2025 Overview

On the List

404,922

+7.2% vs 2024

Total Compensation

$54.6B

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$134,229

+1.3% vs 2024

Top Earner

$1,910,992

Kenneth Hartwick · salary + benefits

Year over Year

Employee count change: +7.2% (27,258)
Average salary change: +1.3% ($1,732)

Top Earners
2025

#1Kenneth Hartwick
$1,910,992
Ontario Power Generation·Special Advisor
#2Nicolle Butcher
$1,598,309
Ontario Power Generation·President and Chief Executive Officer
#3Steve Gregoris
$1,096,651
Ontario Power Generation·Chief Nuclear Officer
#4Kevin Smith
$1,038,847
University Health Network·President and Chief Executive Officer
#5Aida Cipolla
$1,016,119
Ontario Power Generation·Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
#6Subo Sinnathamby
$985,253
Ontario Power Generation·Chief Projects Officer
#7Ronald Cohn
$897,739
The Hospital For Sick Children·President and Chief Executive Officer
#8Mark Knutson
$859,793
Ontario Power Generation·Chief Enterprise Engineering and Chief Nuclear Engineer
#9Matthew Anderson
$836,803
Ontario Health·Chief Executive Officer/Président-directeur général
#10Jon Franke
$828,637
Ontario Power Generation·Senior Vice President Nuclear

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Sector Breakdown
2025

Total compensation by sector

Total compensation by sectorHorizontal bar chart of total compensation across 12 sectors, School Boards: $13,882,603,710 (112,654 people); Municipalities & Services: $12,412,036,247 (92,492 people); Hospitals & Boards of Public Health: $9,504,837,555 (74,777 people); Government of Ontario – Ministries: $5,205,026,999 (35,897 people); Universities: $5,141,550,661 (30,975 people); Crown Agencies: $2,667,268,275 (19,087 people); Other Public Sector Employers: $2,171,561,426 (15,721 people); Ontario Power Generation: $1,858,743,125 (10,672 people); Colleges: $1,441,509,104 (10,926 people); Government of Ontario – Judiciary: $209,543,409 (733 people); Government of Ontario – Legislative Assembly and Offices: $118,709,013 (800 people); Seconded to Ministries: $26,326,208 (188 people).$0$10B$15BSchool Boards112,654Municipalities & ServicesMunicip…ervices92,492Hospitals & Boards of Public HealthHospita… Health74,777Government of Ontario – MinistriesGovernm…istries35,897Universities30,975Crown Agencies19,087Other Public Sector EmployersOther P…ployers15,721Ontario Power GenerationOntario…eration10,672Colleges10,926Government of Ontario – JudiciaryGovernm…diciary733Government of Ontario – Legislative Assembly and OfficesGovernm…Offices800Seconded to MinistriesSeconde…istries188

Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
2024 → 2025

Nicolle Butcher at Ontario Power Generation had the largest increase in disclosed pay on the 2025 Sunshine List: $978,380 to $1,596,218, up 63.1%.

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.

Nicolle Butcher+63.1%
Ontario Power Generation·President and Chief Executive Officer
$978,380 → $1,596,218
Michael D'Souza+179.5%
Ontario Power Generation·Field Shift Operating Supervisor
$200,889 → $561,418
George Chiramel+159.3%
The Hospital For Sick Children·Radiologist
$223,502 → $579,431
Ronald Kwan+143.5%
Ontario Financing Authority·Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Electricity Finance
$217,545 → $529,724
Kumar Gupta+61.0%
Solicitor General·Coroner
$466,182 → $750,440
Bing Han+142.4%
University Of Toronto·Professor of Finance
$199,499 → $483,490
Michael Marshall+188.1%
Solicitor General·Staff Sergeant
$139,086 → $400,751
Dr Nadiya Sunderji+65.5%
Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care·President and Chief Executive Officer
$397,994 → $658,752
Muhammad Mamdani+78.6%
Unity Health Toronto·Vice President Data Science Advanced Analytics Quality Performance Information Management
$328,452 → $586,765
Miranda Schell+177.6%
Hamilton Health Sciences·Associate Physician
$142,728 → $396,223

Biggest Cuts
2024 → 2025

Pay cuts aren't shown for 2025 yet — a partial final year before leaving looks identical to a real cut until next year's Sunshine List arrives. Check back after the 2026 list is published, or see an earlier year.

New to the List
2025

57,624 people are new to the 2025 Sunshine List. The highest-paid was Katherine A Hay at Kids Help Phone ($729,754).

#1Katherine A Hay
$730,444
Kids Help Phone·President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Retired Designate
#2Si Truong
$679,722
Ontario Power Generation·Senior Information Technology Leader/Advisor
#3Marcela Carena Lopez
$698,412
Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics·Executive Director
#4Robert Yeung
$561,643
Ontario Financing Authority·Chief Treasury and Investment Officer
#5Peter Werstiuk
$553,637
Quantum Valley Ideas Laboratories·Chief Executive Officer
#6Lionel Trevo Young
$500,426
University Of Toronto·Vice-President and Provost; Professor of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
#7Michael J Fedchyshyn
$479,192
Building Ontario Fund·Chief Executive Officer/ Président-directeur général
#8Dr. Renate Ilse
$475,365
Kingston Health Sciences Centre·Executive Vice-President Corporate Services and Chief Operating Officer\Vice-Présidente Administrative, Services Généraux et Chef des Opérations
#9Muhammet Fat Guvenen
$470,498
University Of Toronto·Professor
#10Maria Bedoya Velez
$457,334
The Hospital For Sick Children·Radiologist

Left the List
2024 → 2025

46,334 people on the 2024 Sunshine List did not appear on the 2025 list; Toronto District School Board had the most, 1,944.