In 2024, each MPP receives a base salary of $116,550. Additional responsibilities come with more money, ranging from $16,000 to $50,000.
- Premier: $208,974.00
- Cabinet Minister: $165,850.65
- Associate Minister: $138,927.60
- Parliamentary assistant: $133,216.65
Base salaries were last increased on on April 1, 2008 and frozen by premier Dalton McGuinty in 2008 in the face of the financial crisis.
Additional responsibilities
- Parliamentary assistants – MPPs appointed have their pay increased to roughly $140,000
- Committee chairs – Additional $16,000
Premier Doug Ford has given additional duties to all but one of his MPPs, increasing their pay without having to break the base salary freeze.
When Ford was first elected in 2018, his cabinet had 20 members. In 2024, he increased the size of his cabinet to 37 members (46% of all PC MPPs) breaking his own record for the province’s largest cabinet.
Pension
MPPs in Ontario don’t get a pension since Mike Harris’ government got rid of the pension program after the 1995 provincial election in Bill 42, MPPs Pension and Compensation Reform Act, 1996.
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