New Brunswick Employee Salaries
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Horizon & Vitalité Health Network Salaries (2025)

Based on the 2025 Employee Salaries disclosure in New Brunswick's Public Accounts · 8,027 health-authority employees paid $80,000 or more

New Brunswick's hospitals are run by two regional health authorities — the anglophone Horizon Health Network and the francophone Réseau de santé Vitalité — with ambulance and home care delivered by EM/ANB Inc.. Together they are the largest block on the province's salary disclosure: in 2025, 8,027 health-authority employees were paid $80,000 or more, 4,380 of them at Horizon and 2,630 at Vitalité, plus 1,008 at EM/ANB (the remaining 9 are at New Brunswick Health Council).

This is a list dominated by front-line staff — nurses above all — not executives. At Horizon, 87% of disclosed employees are in the two lowest bands ($80,000–$124,999), and at Vitalité 86%; only 39 people across both networks are in bands starting at $200,000 or more. Those upper bands hold the two presidents and CEOs, the vice-presidents, and salaried physician leaders; most physicians bill Medicare on a fee-for-service basis and are not employees, so they do not appear here.

The highest band in the sector belongs to Margaret Melanson at Horizon Health Network, disclosed in the $575,000–$599,999 band. New Brunswick discloses each salary as a $25,000 band, not an exact amount, and publishes no job titles; every table on this page shows the disclosed band and groups people by band rather than ranking them.

Highest Salary Bands Across New Brunswick's Health Authorities (2025)

The 42 people in the sector's highest bands. Every band shown is shown in full; the order within a band is alphabetical, not by pay.

NameEmployerSalary band
Margaret MelansonHorizon Health Network$575,000–$599,999
Dragana KellyHorizon Health Network$425,000–$449,999
France DesrosiersRéseau de santé Vitalité$375,000–$399,999
Natalie Dre BanvilleRéseau de santé Vitalité$325,000–$349,999
Susan Ellen BrienHorizon Health Network$325,000–$349,999
Maryse LanteigneRéseau de santé Vitalité$300,000–$324,999
Anick PelletierRéseau de santé Vitalité$300,000–$324,999
Martin RobichaudRéseau de santé Vitalité$275,000–$299,999
Annie Elizabeth BernardRéseau de santé Vitalité$250,000–$274,999
Mathieu ChamberlainRéseau de santé Vitalité$250,000–$274,999
Sylvain NadeauRéseau de santé Vitalité$250,000–$274,999
Patrick ParentRéseau de santé Vitalité$250,000–$274,999
Tarik ZaaitarRéseau de santé Vitalité$250,000–$274,999
Lise BrousseauRéseau de santé Vitalité$225,000–$249,999
Natacha CormierRéseau de santé Vitalité$225,000–$249,999
Jonathan S. DysartHorizon Health Network$225,000–$249,999
Rhonda Nason-GillisRéseau de santé Vitalité$225,000–$249,999
Zineb AbdelhadiRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Oluwaseyi A. AransiolaHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Ghislaine ArsenaultRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Gisèle BeaulieuRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Kimberly BoucherRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Jeffery J. CarterHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Gregory J. DoironHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Frédéric FinnRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Jennifer Carolyn GirardHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Alexandre GrondinEM/ANB Inc.$200,000–$224,999
Dawn T. HalvorsenHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Janet HoganHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Nimmy JosephHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Amila Landry-DarismeRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Chantal LavoieHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Gail Anne LebelHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Marie-Alexandra LereboursRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Amanda G.F. McCoyHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Fatou NdiayeRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Maurice PoirierEM/ANB Inc.$200,000–$224,999
Jennifer Joan SheilsHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Brigitte Sonier FergusonRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999
Arthur TealeEM/ANB Inc.$200,000–$224,999
Peter TriantafillouHorizon Health Network$200,000–$224,999
Nadia ValcourtRéseau de santé Vitalité$200,000–$224,999

Horizon Health Network — Salary Bands and Top Earners

Horizon runs the anglophone hospitals — the Saint John Regional, the Moncton Hospital, Fredericton's Dr. Everett Chalmers and the Miramichi Regional among them — and is the larger of the two networks. In 2025 it disclosed 4,380 employees at $80,000 or more; the most common band is $80,000–$99,999 and the highest is $575,000–$599,999.

Salary bandEmployeesShare
$575,000–$599,9991<0.1%
$425,000–$449,9991<0.1%
$325,000–$349,9991<0.1%
$225,000–$249,9991<0.1%
$200,000–$224,999120.3%
$175,000–$199,999340.8%
$150,000–$174,999842%
$125,000–$149,99944410%
$100,000–$124,9991,88543%
$80,000–$99,9991,91744%

The 16 employees in Horizon Health Network's highest bands (whole bands, alphabetical within a band):

NameSalary band
Margaret Melanson$575,000–$599,999
Dragana Kelly$425,000–$449,999
Susan Ellen Brien$325,000–$349,999
Jonathan S. Dysart$225,000–$249,999
Oluwaseyi A. Aransiola$200,000–$224,999
Jeffery J. Carter$200,000–$224,999
Gregory J. Doiron$200,000–$224,999
Jennifer Carolyn Girard$200,000–$224,999
Dawn T. Halvorsen$200,000–$224,999
Janet Hogan$200,000–$224,999
Nimmy Joseph$200,000–$224,999
Chantal Lavoie$200,000–$224,999
Gail Anne Lebel$200,000–$224,999
Amanda G.F. McCoy$200,000–$224,999
Jennifer Joan Sheils$200,000–$224,999
Peter Triantafillou$200,000–$224,999

Vitalité Health Network — Salary Bands and Top Earners

Réseau de santé Vitalité is the francophone network, centred on the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton, the Chaleur Regional in Bathurst and the Edmundston Regional. In 2025 it disclosed 2,630 employees at $80,000 or more; the most common band is $80,000–$99,999 and the highest is $375,000–$399,999.

Salary bandEmployeesShare
$375,000–$399,9991<0.1%
$325,000–$349,9991<0.1%
$300,000–$324,9992<0.1%
$275,000–$299,9991<0.1%
$250,000–$274,99950.2%
$225,000–$249,99930.1%
$200,000–$224,999100.4%
$175,000–$199,999120.5%
$150,000–$174,999582%
$125,000–$149,99927110%
$100,000–$124,9991,12243%
$80,000–$99,9991,14443%

The 10 employees in Vitalité Health Network's highest bands (whole bands, alphabetical within a band):

NameSalary band
France Desrosiers$375,000–$399,999
Natalie Dre Banville$325,000–$349,999
Maryse Lanteigne$300,000–$324,999
Anick Pelletier$300,000–$324,999
Martin Robichaud$275,000–$299,999
Annie Elizabeth Bernard$250,000–$274,999
Mathieu Chamberlain$250,000–$274,999
Sylvain Nadeau$250,000–$274,999
Patrick Parent$250,000–$274,999
Tarik Zaaitar$250,000–$274,999

EM/ANB (Ambulance New Brunswick & Extra-Mural) — Salary Bands and Top Earners

EM/ANB Inc. delivers the province's ambulance service and the Extra-Mural home-care program, so most of its disclosed staff sit in the lowest bands, which is where paramedics and Extra-Mural nurses fall. In 2025 it disclosed 1,008 employees at $80,000 or more; the most common band is $80,000–$99,999 and the highest is $200,000–$224,999.

Salary bandEmployeesShare
$200,000–$224,99930.3%
$175,000–$199,99930.3%
$150,000–$174,999151%
$125,000–$149,999444%
$100,000–$124,99941942%
$80,000–$99,99952452%

The 6 employees in EM/ANB's highest bands (whole bands, alphabetical within a band):

NameSalary band
Alexandre Grondin$200,000–$224,999
Maurice Poirier$200,000–$224,999
Arthur Teale$200,000–$224,999
Caleb Corbin$175,000–$199,999
Yves Doiron$175,000–$199,999
Shailer Shepherd$175,000–$199,999

Every Health Body in the Disclosure (2025)

Health bodyEmployeesMost common bandTop band
Horizon Health Network4,380$80,000–$99,999$575,000–$599,999
Réseau de santé Vitalité2,630$80,000–$99,999$375,000–$399,999
EM/ANB Inc.1,008$80,000–$99,999$200,000–$224,999
New Brunswick Health Council9$80,000–$99,999$175,000–$199,999

Employees Disclosed by Year

How many health-authority employees reached the threshold each year. This is a poor measure of hiring: 2020 used a $60,000 threshold and its $75,000–$99,999 band cannot be split at the $80,000 line that applies from 2021, so 2020 is not comparable with any later year; a fixed dollar threshold means each nursing wage settlement carries more people over it; and the 2021 and 2022 counts are lower than the surrounding years in the published source itself. Read these as counts of people disclosed, not headcounts.

YearPeople disclosed
20208,447
20213,888
20223,992
20236,937
20247,375
20258,027

About the Disclosure

Each year the Government of New Brunswick publishes an Employee Salaries list in its Public Accounts, naming public-sector employees paid at or above the threshold ($80,000 since 2021) together with their employer and a $25,000 salary band. The regional health authorities and Ambulance New Brunswick are covered alongside government departments, Crown corporations, school districts and colleges. Because bands rather than exact salaries are disclosed, averages computed from this list are approximate, and this page avoids them.

Data source: New Brunswick Public Accounts — Employee Salaries (2025). This site is independent and is not affiliated with the Government of New Brunswick, Horizon Health Network, Vitalité Health Network or EM/ANB.

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