Based on the 2025 Compensation Disclosure · 6,023 health employees paid $100,000 or more
Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services — the single authority that replaced Eastern, Central, Western and Labrador-Grenfell Health in 2023 — is the largest employer on Newfoundland and Labrador's Compensation Disclosure. In 2025, 6,023 of its employees were paid $100,000 or more; across the health sector the disclosed total was $786.6M in compensation. The average was $130,599 and the median $115,700.
This is a nurses' list. NL discloses job titles and breaks each total into base salary, overtime, bonuses, shift premium, retroactive pay and other pay, and the split explains the list: of the ten most common titles, 7 are nursing classifications covering 2,549 people, and about half of the registered nurses on the list have a base salary below the threshold — it is mostly overtime and shift premium, with retention bonuses behind some, that carry them over $100,000. The tables below show base salary beside the total for exactly that reason.
The highest total in 2025 belongs to Matthew N Young, Medical/Radiation Oncologist, at $642,600 (base salary $166,400). The top of the list is salaried specialist physicians — oncologists, pathologists, psychiatrists — rather than executives; many NL physicians bill fee-for-service rather than drawing a salary, and those billings are not employment compensation, so they do not appear here.
Ranked by total compensation, with base salary alongside. Click a name for that person's history.
| # | Name | Base salary | Total compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew N Young Medical/Radiation Oncologist | $166,400 | $642,600 |
| 2 | Joy Greenland Medical/Radiation Oncologist | $180,300 | $625,300 |
| 3 | Stewart Rorke Medical/Radiation Oncologist | $180,300 | $614,500 |
| 4 | Oliver Holmes Medical/Radiation Oncologist | $293,600 | $576,800 |
| 5 | Jaco Dutoit Psychiatrist - Wmrh | $295,000 | $567,800 |
| 6 | Etienne Van Der Linde Casualty Officer | $0 | $563,900 |
| 7 | Amer Qureshi Medical Internist - Str | $295,000 | $557,900 |
| 8 | Gena N Bugden Vice President | $293,600 | $554,800 |
| 9 | Craig Pochini Medical/Radiation Oncologist | $293,600 | $545,200 |
| 10 | Dawn E Armstrong Medical/Radiation Oncologist | $257,100 | $538,600 |
| 11 | Ryley P Pumphrey Assistant Medical Officer | $167,400 | $536,500 |
| 12 | Elmarie Potgieter Pathologist | $295,000 | $536,400 |
| 13 | Chikezie Nwankwo Internist | $293,600 | $527,300 |
| 14 | Asim Kamran Medical/Radiation Oncologist | $293,600 | $523,300 |
| 15 | Renee E Lester Medical/Radiation Oncologist | $180,100 | $523,300 |
| 16 | Muhammad Alam Paediatrician | $293,600 | $520,800 |
| 17 | Jordan Brennan Psychiatrist - Wmrh | $295,000 | $519,300 |
| 18 | Steven Madu Gynaecologist | $293,600 | $517,700 |
| 19 | Visweswara Pullela Anaesthetist | $293,600 | $517,700 |
| 20 | Fayyaz Khan Anaesthetist - Str | $295,000 | $517,400 |
| 21 | Wafik Ishak General Practitioner | $191,800 | $503,000 |
| 22 | Kathryn Whelan Pathologist | $293,600 | $500,100 |
| 23 | Christy Joseph General Practitioner | $220,600 | $499,500 |
| 24 | Sarada Sri Paladugu Obstetrician | $293,600 | $496,800 |
| 25 | Keon Hughes General Practitioner | $192,500 | $492,700 |
The ten most common titles among NL Health Services employees over $100,000, with the average total compensation for each. Nursing classifications (I, IB, IC, IIC) are the province's pay grades; the average includes overtime.
For the province-wide picture by role, see the nurses and paramedics pages.
How many health-sector employees reached the threshold each year in the disclosures this site holds. The four regional health authorities were amalgamated into NL Health Services in April 2023, and the $100,000 threshold is fixed while nursing pay and overtime have risen, so the step-ups are a mix of reporting scope and wage settlements — read them as counts of people disclosed, not headcount.
| Year | People disclosed |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2,504 |
| 2023 | 3,354 |
| 2024 | 5,139 |
| 2025 | 6,023 |
Newfoundland and Labrador's Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act requires public bodies to publish the name, position and compensation of every employee paid $100,000 or more, broken into base salary, overtime, bonuses, shift premium, retroactive pay, severance and other compensation. The figure ranked here is the total actually paid in the year, so a retroactive settlement or a severance can lift someone for a single year. Employer pension contributions are not included.
Data source: NL Public Sector Compensation Disclosure (2025). This site is independent and is not affiliated with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador or NL Health Services.
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