Nova Scotia Compensation Disclosure
Healthcare

Nova Scotia Health & IWK Salaries (FY 2024-25)

Based on the FY 2024-25 Public Sector Compensation Disclosure · 7,653 people paid $100,000 or more across 13 health bodies

In FY 2024-25, 7,653 people in Nova Scotia's health sector were paid $100,000 or more, for a combined $935.4M in total compensation. The average disclosed figure was $122,228 and the median $116,781. “Health” here means the bodies this site groups under that heading: the provincial health authority, the IWK, and a handful of nursing homes and community health bodies that file their own statements. Provincial Department of Health staff do not file under the Act.

Nova Scotia Health Authority alone accounts for 6,715 of those people — 88% of the sector — at an average of $122,332. The Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre adds another 809 at an average of $121,175.

The highest disclosed figure in the sector belongs to Nicole Boutilier at Nova Scotia Health Authority, at $448,252. Nova Scotia publishes no job titles, so the disclosure does not say what role a figure attaches to; the largest amounts are typically senior executives and physicians paid on salary rather than fee-for-service.

Top 25 Highest-Paid in Nova Scotia's Health Sector (FY 2024-25)

Ranked by total compensation paid during the fiscal year. Click a name for that person's disclosure history.

Nova Scotia Health — Top Earners

Nova Scotia Health (formerly the Nova Scotia Health Authority) runs every hospital and most community health services outside the IWK, and is the province's largest employer. Its statement is by far the biggest single filing under the Act.

#NameTotal compensation
1Nicole Boutilier$448,252
2Donald Robichaud$437,979
3Rodger M. MacKenzie$385,439
4Andrew Bourgeois$373,040
5Chris Browner$367,783
6Todd Howlett$341,971
7Aaron Smith$332,180
8Donald Brien$322,144
9Cheryl Pugh$317,835
10Darren Blackadar$311,495

IWK Health Centre — Top Earners

The IWK Health Centre in Halifax is the Maritimes' tertiary women's and children's hospital and files its own statement, separate from Nova Scotia Health.

#NameTotal compensation
1Kathryn McFadden$426,762
2Craig Midgen$421,448
3Krista Jangaard$364,425
4Douglas Sinclair$328,556
5Steven Ashton$257,810
6Francis MacMaster$239,731
7Helena Arts$226,590
8Leeann Larocque$220,155
9Karen Bedard$216,904
10Michael Volodarsky$216,611

Every Health Body in the Disclosure (FY 2024-25)

Beyond the two big institutions, the health sector in this disclosure is made up of 11 smaller bodies — long-term care homes and community health organisations that receive public funding and therefore file under the Act.

EmployerEmployeesAverageHighest
Nova Scotia Health Authority6,715$122,332$448,252
Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre809$121,175$426,762
Northwoodcare Halifax Incorporated40$121,160$142,590
Kings Regional Rehabilitation Centre26$122,438$185,929
Northwoodcare Bedford Incorporated17$117,092$156,626
Mountain Lea Lodge10$157,632$251,037
North End Community Health Centre10$129,684$203,256
Sunset Community Incorporated8$113,950$149,901
Tidal View Manor8$120,102$155,927
Shoreham Village Senior Citizens Association5$114,393$124,198
North Queens Nursing Home Inc3$115,578$121,075
Cumberland Senior Care Corporation1$124,221$124,221
Meadows Community1$111,583$111,583

People Disclosed by Year

How many health-sector people appeared on the disclosure each fiscal year. Read this as a count of disclosed people, not a headcount: the $100,000 threshold has not moved since 2010, so ordinary wage growth pulls more people over it every year; the 2019 spike is the one-time payout of frozen service awards; and the jump between 2023 and 2024 at Nova Scotia Health and the IWK is far larger than any plausible hiring, so treat the earlier years as not comparable with the later ones.

YearPeople disclosed
FY 2016-17738
FY 2017-181,031
FY 2018-192,936
FY 2019-201,176
FY 2020-211,889
FY 2021-222,135
FY 2022-232,416
FY 2023-246,384
FY 2024-257,653

About the Disclosure

Nova Scotia's Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act (2010) requires each public-sector body to publish the name and total compensation of every person paid $100,000 or more in the fiscal year ending March 31. The figure is money actually paid — salary plus overtime, retroactive pay, lump-sum and vacation payouts, and severance — not an annual salary, so a one-time payment can lift someone onto the list for a single year. It excludes the employer-paid share of pensions and benefits. No job titles are published, and the core civil service does not file at all. Figures for FY 2024-25 cover April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025.

Data source: Nova Scotia Public Sector Compensation Disclosure (FY 2024-25), published under the Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act. This site is independent and is not affiliated with the Government of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Health, or the IWK.

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