Highest-Paid Engineers in Ontario (2025)

In 2025, 6,159 engineer roles appeared on the Ontario Sunshine List, earning an average of $144,126 and a median of $134,471. The highest-paid was Mark Knutson (Chief Enterprise Engineering and Chief Nuclear Engineer at Ontario Power Generation) at $856,947. Professional, power, and stationary engineers across the public sector.

Figures cover disclosed public-sector employees only (those above Ontario’s $100,000 disclosure threshold). Records span 1996–2025.

Engineers disclosed (2025)

6,159

Average

$144,126

Median

$134,471

Highest

$856,947

Top 25 highest-paid engineers (2025)

#	Name	Job title	Employer	Total
1	Mark Knutson	Chief Enterprise Engineering and Chief Nuclear Engineer	Ontario Power Generation	$856,947
2	Cristina Amon	Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	University Of Toronto	$447,725
3	Gregg Mccabe	Vice President Design and Project Engineering	Ontario Power Generation	$416,580
4	Dave Burger	Vice President Station Engineering	Ontario Power Generation	$413,454
5	Kenneth Coley	Dean, Faculty of Engineering/Professor	University Of Western Ontario	$396,192
6	Eric Miller	Professor of Civil and Mineral Engineering	University Of Toronto	$393,315
7	George Eleftheriades	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University Of Toronto	$386,130
8	Christopher Yip	Professor of Chemical Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering	University Of Toronto	$380,601
9	Molly Shoichet	Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry	University Of Toronto	$379,306
10	David Sinton	Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	University Of Toronto	$363,510
11	Kamran Behdinan	Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	University Of Toronto	$355,623
12	Javad Mostaghimi	Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	University Of Toronto	$355,340
13	Stephen Harrington	Director Station Engineering	Ontario Power Generation	$353,178
14	Fay W. L. Pittman	Chief Engineer / Ingénieur en chef	Metrolinx	$351,234
15	Deval Pandya	Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Engineering	Vector Institute	$349,123
16	Moncef Nehdi	Dean, College of Engineering	University Of Guelph	$348,246
17	Ali Sheikholeslami	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University Of Toronto	$339,974
18	Frank Kschischang	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University Of Toronto	$337,394
19	Roy Kwon	Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	University Of Toronto	$335,574
20	Mohini Sain	Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	University Of Toronto	$334,118
21	Farid Najm	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University Of Toronto	$330,983
22	Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University Of Toronto	$330,765
23	Glenn Gulak	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University Of Toronto	$330,467
24	Douglas Mctaggart	Leader, Service: Medical Engineering	University Health Network	$330,337
25	Doug Perovic	Professor of Materials Science and Engineering	University Of Toronto	$329,749

Employers with the most engineers (2025)

Ontario Power Generation1,406 · $153,788 avg City Of Toronto525 · $136,584 avg City Of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission491 · $135,028 avg University Of Toronto358 · $209,476 avg Transportation289 · $146,113 avg Ontario Health202 · $120,267 avg City Of Ottawa164 · $122,221 avg Metrolinx130 · $150,721 avg Independent Electricity System Operator124 · $143,625 avg Environment, Conservation and Parks119 · $151,973 avg Regional Municipality Of York87 · $134,151 avg Atura85 · $199,219 avg

Job titles included

Senior Technical Engineer/Officer464Senior Engineer229Engineer201Assistant Technical Engineer/Officer197Senior Project Engineer143Technical Engineer/Officer105Project and Control Engineer/Officer101Senior Engineer/Scientist/Technical Officer83Senior Engineer/Scientist – Specialist78Engineering Technologist78

Highest-Paid Engineers in Ontario (2025)

Top 25 highest-paid engineers (2025)

Employers with the most engineers (2025)

Job titles included

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