Top Earners

The province-wide leaderboard of the highest-paid disclosed employees*, filterable by sector and exact position. Looking for one specific employer's top earners? Its profile page has its own top-10 list.

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Biggest increases total comp, 2019 → 2020

Alan Shepard — President and Vicechancellor University of Western Ontario · $235,712 → $522,683 +$286,971

Sharon Hodgson — Dean and Lawrence C Tapp Chair of Leadership University of Western Ontario · $315,604 → $587,350 +$271,747

Robert Gordon — President; Professor University of Windsor · $129,515 → $388,805 +$259,291

John Yoo — Dean and Professor and Medical Doctor University of Western Ontario · $144,681 → $375,074 +$230,393

Patrick Deane — Principal and Vicechancellor Professor Queens University · $208,165 → $416,489 +$208,324

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Sarita Verma — Dean President and Chief Executive Officer Northern Ontario School of Medicine · $184,693 → $381,982 +$197,289

Eitan Grinspun — Professor of Computer Science University of Toronto · $141,866 → $336,130 +$194,264

Sauro Camiletti — Vice Principal and Academic Dean Kings University College · $235,819 → $429,886 +$194,067

Manus Rungtusanatham — Professor and Canada Research Chair York University · $180,521 → $367,511 +$186,990

Maureen Mancuso — Senior Advisor Academic Special Projects Wilfrid Laurier University · $100,987 → $286,472 +$185,485

People disclosed in both years, at the same employer. Large jumps often reflect a partial previous year, a promotion, retroactive pay or a one-time payment, not a raise in base salary.

People earning $250,000+ total comp · +67% since 2016

507

2016

559

2017

619

2018

714

2019

846

2020

Nominal dollars: like the $100,000 disclosure line, $250,000 isn't adjusted for inflation.

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Top 100 matching, FY2020

Rank	Name	Employer	Position	Total comp	YoY
#19	Daren Smith	University of Toronto	President and Chief Investment Officer University of Toront…	$692,541	-13.6%
#30	Sharon Hodgson	University of Western Ontario	Dean and Lawrence C Tapp Chair of Leadership	$587,350	+70.8%
#38	William Mitchell	University of Toronto	Professor of Strategic Management	$561,336	+5.9%
#42	Dezso Horvath	York University	Professor and Dean Emeritus	$554,987	+0.8%
#49	Tina Dacin	Queens University	Professor Smith Chair Director Community Impact Research Program	$540,729	+47.4%
#52	Charles Oreilly	University of Toronto	Head of Public Equities Investments University of Toronto A…	$531,670	+39.5%
#59	Alan Shepard	University of Western Ontario	President and Vicechancellor	$522,683	+120.0%
#62	Elspeth Murray	Queens University	Associate Dean Master of Business Administration Programs a…	$517,817	-0.7%
#70	Richard Reznick	Queens University	Professor	$509,637	+2.4%
#75	Brian Golden	University of Toronto	Professor of Strategic Management	$506,800	-7.4%
#81	Meric Gertler	University of Toronto	President University of Toronto	$497,616	+0.0%
#83	Rhonda Lenton	York University	President and Vice Chancellor and Professor	$494,654	+0.0%
#89	David Saunders	Queens University	Professor	$489,818	+11.8%
#92	Glen Whyte	University of Toronto	Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Ma…	$486,996	-1.7%
#93	Joel Baum	University of Toronto	Professor of Strategic Management	$486,599	-13.2%
#94	Alexander Dyck	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance and Economic Analysis and Policy	$485,445	+12.9%
#96	Franco Vaccarino	University of Guelph	Past President and Vicechancellor	$483,597	+10.7%
#97	Salim Yusuf	McMaster University	Professor	$483,545	+2.7%
#106	Mihnea Moldoveanu	University of Toronto	Vice Dean Learning and Innovation and Professor of Economic…	$478,049	-4.2%
#111	Joanne Oxley	University of Toronto	Acting Vice Dean Research Strategy and Resources	$475,261	+25.3%
#112	Feridun Hamdullahpur	University of Waterloo	President	$474,623	+0.1%
#113	Mohamed Lachemi	Toronto Metropolitan University	President	$474,516	+4.1%
#114	Joshua Gans	University of Toronto	Professor of Strategic Management	$473,986	+12.0%
#117	John Hull	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance	$472,453	+5.2%
#127	Susan Christoffersen	University of Toronto	Vice Dean Undergraduate and Specialized Programs and Profes…	$466,048	+1.7%
#135	Paul Obyrne	McMaster University	Dean and Vicepresident Health Sciences and Professor	$460,840	+0.2%
#141	Dilip Soman	University of Toronto	Professor of Marketing	$457,169	+9.9%
#147	Partha Mohanram	University of Toronto	Professor of Accounting	$451,511	-2.0%
#153	William Strange	University of Toronto	Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy	$449,819	-2.4%
#158	Craig Doidge	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance	$446,377	+2.6%
#159	Daniel Trefler	University of Toronto	Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy	$445,591	+38.6%
#165	Yuri Levin	Queens University	Executive Director Analytics Professor Smith Chair	$442,319	+22.4%
#167	Stephen Williamson	University of Western Ontario	Professor	$442,188	+1.9%
#169	Lionel Young	University of Toronto	Professor Psychiatry and Dean	$441,510	+3.7%
#171	Davy Cheng	University of Western Ontario	Professor and Medical Doctor	$440,862	-10.8%
#173	Olekristian Hope	University of Toronto	Professor of Accounting	$438,830	+4.2%
#186	Mikhail Simutin	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance	$433,834	-7.0%
#187	Bernard Jasmin	University of Ottawa	Doyenne and Dean	$433,802	+1.8%
#191	Sauro Camiletti	Kings University College	Vice Principal and Academic Dean	$429,886	+83.3%
#193	David Goldreich	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance	$428,923	+7.6%
#194	Leonard Waverman	McMaster University	Professor and Dean	$428,552	+2.7%
#200	Joseph Milner	University of Toronto	Professor of Operations Management and Statistics	$424,982	-5.0%
#201	Varouj Aivazian	University of Toronto	Professor Department of Economics	$424,892	+1.1%
#202	Ajay Agrawal	University of Toronto	Professor of Strategic Management	$424,334	+1.2%
#208	Thomas McCurdy	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance	$422,119	+1.7%
#210	James Orbinski	York University	Professor	$421,100	+1.3%
#213	Weiyi Liao	University of Toronto	Professor of Accounting	$419,925	-1.2%
#220	Cheryl Misak	University of Toronto	Professor of Philosophy and Interim Director Munk School of…	$417,977	+2.1%
#224	Patrick Deane	Queens University	Principal and Vicechancellor Professor	$416,489	+100.0%
#224	Daniel Woolf	Queens University	Principal Emeritus Professor	$416,489	+0.0%
#225	Kenneth Corts	University of Toronto	Interim Dean Rotman Faculty of Management	$416,386	+1.5%
#226	Brian Silverman	University of Toronto	Professor of Strategic Management	$416,324	+2.1%
#232	Jacques Fremont	University of Ottawa	Recteurrice and President	$414,016	n/a
#233	Wendy Rotenberg	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance	$413,474	+0.3%
#235	Bing Han	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance	$412,813	+7.8%
#242	Richard Florida	University of Toronto	Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy	$409,257	+1.2%
#247	Cristina Amon	University of Toronto	Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	$406,395	-1.3%
#260	David Zweig	University of Toronto	Professor of Management	$401,975	+1.2%
#261	Raymond Kan	University of Toronto	Professor of Finance	$401,740	+0.0%
#263	Moon Wong	University of Toronto	Professor of Accounting	$401,436	-1.2%
#264	David Sylvester	University of St Michaels College	President and Vice Chancellor	$400,853	+3.8%
#266	Benoitantoine Bacon	Carleton University	President and Vicechancellor	$400,443	+0.0%
#267	Janet Dancey	Queens University	Director Professor Eisenhauer Chair Clinical Cancer Research	$400,292	+0.0%
#268	Alan Aspuruguzik	University of Toronto	Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science	$400,277	+4.5%
#269	David Farrar	McMaster University	President and Vicechancellor	$400,040	+11.7%
#281	Jeffrey Callen	University of Toronto	Professor of Accounting	$395,784	+1.3%
#284	Anita McGahan	University of Toronto	Professor of Strategic Management	$395,368	+1.9%
#288	Stephen Thomas	Queens University	Director Master of Management Analytics and Master of Manag…	$394,306	-2.1%
#293	Barry Craig	Huron University College	President	$393,740	-7.7%
#294	Hai Lu	University of Toronto	Professor of Accounting	$393,401	-0.6%
#297	Steven Hoffman	York University	Canada Research Chair and Professor	$392,062	-2.0%
#300	Manfred Schneider	University of Toronto	Associate Professor Teaching Stream Department of Management	$391,477	+0.9%
#301	Edward Sargent	University of Toronto	Vicepresident Research and Innovation and Strategic Initiatives	$391,313	+0.9%
#307	Robert Gordon	University of Windsor	President; Professor	$388,805	+200.0%
#309	Russell Belk	York University	Professor	$388,262	+1.3%
#310	Avi Goldfarb	University of Toronto	Professor of Marketing	$387,909	+1.6%
#312	Matthias Kipping	York University	Professor	$387,466	+19.4%
#314	Zeliang Lu	University of Toronto	Head of Fixed Income Investments University of Toronto Asse…	$386,703	-7.6%
#327	Richard Culham	University of Waterloo	Professor	$384,210	+21.8%
#328	Moren Levesque	York University	Professor and Endowed Chair	$384,096	+13.8%
#330	Angelo Mikrogianakis	McMaster University	Professor	$382,919	-1.3%
#335	Keehong Bae	York University	Professor and Endowed Chair	$382,044	+1.3%
#336	Sarita Verma	Northern Ontario School of Medicine	Dean President and Chief Executive Officer	$381,982	+100.0%
#337	David Soberman	University of Toronto	Professor of Marketing	$381,768	-2.8%
#339	David Naylor	University of Toronto	Professor Medicine	$381,247	+0.0%
#346	Roger Strasser	Northern Ontario School of Medicine	Founding Dean Emeritus	$379,297	+0.0%
#349	Yeheskel Barisaac	University of Toronto	Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy	$378,597	+13.6%
#350	Mick Bhatia	McMaster University	Professor	$378,395	+2.7%
#352	Akbar Panju	McMaster University	Professor	$377,936	+0.6%
#354	Gerard Wright	McMaster University	Professor	$377,810	+2.8%
#357	Vivek Goel	University of Toronto	Professor	$377,523	+1.6%
#358	Syed Ahmed	University of Toronto	Professor Teaching Stream of Management	$377,071	+18.7%
#359	Jim Clayton	York University	Professor and Endowed Chair	$376,572	-2.0%
#361	Deborah Maclatchy	Wilfrid Laurier University	President	$376,443	+6.4%
#367	John Yoo	University of Western Ontario	Dean and Professor and Medical Doctor	$375,074	+159.2%
#371	David Palmer	University of Toronto	Vice President Advancement	$374,515	-0.6%
#374	Lisa Becker	University of Toronto	Chief Operating Officer Chief Compliance Officer University…	$374,097	-14.7%
#380	Cheryl Regehr	University of Toronto	Vice President and Provost	$373,066	+0.0%
#381	Lilian Ng	York University	Professor	$373,049	+1.4%
#383	Edward Iacobucci	University of Toronto	Professor of Law and Dean Faculty of Law	$372,987	+1.4%