Ontario Sunshine List · 2025
Social Worker salary in Ontario
Social workers and child protection workers employed by provincial governments and health authorities.
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This is salary disclosure for public-sector employees earning $100,000+ (threshold not inflation-adjusted). It is not a general wage survey. Reported amounts may include overtime or expenses; these figures are not typical base salaries. Role matching uses published title keywords and can include related roles.
Highest: $505,175 · Lowest: $100,015 · Reporting year: 2025
Highest disclosed records
| Name | Job title / employer | Disclosed compensation |
|---|---|---|
| Cheryl Regehr | Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work University Of Toronto | $505,175 |
| Charmaine Williams | Dean, Faculty of Social Work University Of Toronto | $328,307 |
| Barbara Fallon | Associate Vice-President, Research; Professor, Social Work University Of Toronto | $266,430 |
| Esme Fuller-Thomson | Professor of Social Work and Director, Institute for Life Course and Aging University Of Toronto | $259,866 |
| Ka Tat Tsang | Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $251,267 |
| Ramona Alaggia | Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $250,829 |
| Peter Newman | Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $247,380 |
| June Yee | Director School of Social Work Toronto Metropolitan University | $245,473 |
| Amanda Grenier | Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $245,267 |
| Tanya Sharpe | Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $236,768 |
| Marc Molgat | Chaire de recherche, École de travail social / Chair, School of Social Work University Of Ottawa | $231,878 |
| David Brennan | Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $229,925 |
| Eunjung Lee | Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $228,100 |
| Izumi Sakamoto | Associate Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $225,359 |
| Shelley Craig | Professor of Social Work University Of Toronto | $221,493 |
Public-sector social worker — base salary grid
Front-line degree-qualified/registered (MSW-tier) staff social worker (entry step to top step); excludes supervisory/management. BC and Alberta are health-authority union grids; Ontario has no province-wide grid, so a representative hospital is used. Manitoba omitted — no confirmable current published scale.
Previously published benchmark snapshot; effective dates and agreement scope are shown below. These base-pay ranges differ from annual disclosure totals.
| Province / agreement | Base-pay range | Basis / source |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario Ontario Shores (OPSEU) | $87,204 – $110,335 | Social Worker (MSW), 37.5h/wk; effective Jan 2025 Source |
Title matching rules: %social worker%, %social work%, %child protection%. Counts describe disclosure records, not unique people.