{"id":564836,"date":"2026-03-27T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564836\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:08:09","slug":"ontarios-highest-paid-public-sector-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564836\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s highest paid public sector employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 400,000 people have been included on this year\u2019s \u201cSunshine List,\u201d<\/a> representing a seven per cent increase in the size of the list from one year prior.<\/p>\n

Ontario released its list of all public sector employees who earned more than $100,000 in 2025 on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Ontario Power Generation President Ken Hartwick was once again the highest paid Ontario civil servant, bringing in $1,907,408 in 2025. OPG CEO Nicolle Butcher was second on the list earning a salary of $1,596,218 in 2025 while OPG Chief Nuclear Officer Steve Gregoris was third ($1,092,854.84). <\/p>\n

In fact, the five highest paid civil servants in Ontario and seven of the top 10 were all employees of OPG.<\/p>\n

Some of the other notable names on the list include Premier Doug Ford ($269,567), Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow ($240,349) and Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw ($445,366.) TTC CEO Mandeep Lali had a 2025 salary of $288,461.25 despite only taking over the job midway through the year on July 7.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s list had 7,083 members of the Toronto Police Service on it, up from 6,114 in 2024.<\/p>\n

While Denkiw was Toronto\u2019s top paid cop, it was not by much with five rank-and-file officers that carried the rank of sergeant or constable earning salaries in excess of $350,000.<\/p>\n

The seven per cent jump in the size of the Ontario sunshine list comes after a 25 per cent increase in 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a statement, President of the Treasury Board Caroline Mulroney said that \u201cretroactive payments, collective bargaining outcomes and an additional pay period for multiple organizations were all unique factors contributing to salary increases in 2025\u2033 and that more than 50 per cent of the growth in the list was \u201cdriven by municipalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Ken Hartwick Ken Hartwick is shown in this undated photo (LinkedIn) <\/p>\n

Mulroney also pointed out that more than 50 per cent of list is \u201ccomprised of public service organizations like school boards, hospitals and public boards of health, which in large part is comprised of nurses and teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ontario has been releasing the names, positions and salaries of all public sector employees earning at least $100,000 in the previous calendar year since 1996.<\/p>\n

The cutoff has not been adjusted for inflation. A worker earning $100,000 in 1996 would earn approximately $185,000 today, according to the Bank of Canada\u2019s inflation calculator. <\/p>\n

In 1996, only 4,502 public servants in Ontario earned enough to qualify for the sunshine list. Today, it is nearly 400 times that many.<\/p>\n

In a statement provided to CP24, the President and CEO of the Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO) Dave Bulmer said that failure to adjust the list for inflation over the years has resulted in its \u201coriginal intent and its enduring relevancy\u201d being \u201ccompletely lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cClearly, the list\u2019s threshold needs to be adjusted to $185,000 \u2013 otherwise it will continue to capture salaries of workers who by 1996 standards would have been making $54,000. Its value barometer has literally been cut in half,\u201c he said. \u201dLikewise, given its objective was to cast sunshine on the province\u2019s highest earning executives, save for those who fit that description, the List should otherwise be anonymized to protect the privacy of those in less senior roles.”<\/p>\n

Other names on the list:<\/p>\n

Ontario Premier Doug Ford – $269,567Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow – $240,349Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw – $445,366University Health Network President and CEO Kevin Smith – $939,603Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay – $327,439Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan Duraiappah – $604,449Opposition Leader Marit Stiles – $233,334University of Toronto President Melanie Woodin – $440,866Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca – $218,544Hospital for Sick Children President and CEO Ronald Cohn – $880,013Hamilton Health Sciences President and CEO Tracey MacArthur – $773,658Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown – $154,248Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish – $156,170TMU President and Vice-Chancellor Mohamed Lachemi – $471,070Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre President and CEO Andy Smith – $757,366Toronto City Manager Paul Johnson – $523,925\"\"Myron Demkiw Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw speaks to media during a press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Cole Burston <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 400,000 people have been included on this year\u2019s \u201cSunshine List,\u201d representing a seven per cent increase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-564836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}