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On the 2025 Sunshine List · 8 years

Joshua Basseches

Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général · Royal Ontario Museum
2025 Total Compensation Paid
$522,690.21
▲ 26.4% since 2016

Joshua Basseches was paid $522,690.21 in total compensation as Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général at Royal Ontario Museum in 2025, 423% above Ontario's $100,000.00 Sunshine List threshold.

Joshua Basseches has appeared on the Ontario Sunshine List 8 times since 2016, earning $4.1M in combined disclosed pay — an average of $507,935.00 a year, up 26% over that span.

That is 285% above the average disclosed pay of $135,610.67 across 200 listed Royal Ontario Museum employees.

$522,690.21
Latest compensation
in 2025
$4.1M
Total compensation
across 8 years
$507,935.00
Average / year
while on Sunshine List
+26.4%
Career growth
since 2016
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FIG. 01

8 years on the list

Annual total compensation (CAD) — hover to inspect.

$391K$431K$471K$511K$551K20162018201920202021202220242025
FIG. 02

The career in numbers

Totals, averages, and the biggest moves — all total compensation.

A career, year by year.

How Joshua Basseches's total compensation has moved across 8 years on the Ontario Sunshine List.

Highest year2022 · $536,171.49
Lifetime total compensation$4.1M
Annual average$507,935.00
Total growth since 2016+26.4%
Biggest raise+25.2% (2018)
Biggest drop-11.4% (2020)
FIG. 03

Year-by-year history

8 years on the Sunshine List.

YearPositionTotal CompensationChange
2025Latest
Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général$522,690.21▼ 2.5%
2024
Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général$536,076.33▼ 0.0%
2022★ Best
Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général$536,171.49▲ 1.4%
2021
Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général$528,529.78▲ 11.5%
2020
Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général↑ role changed$473,833.80▼ 11.4%
2019
Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur g�n�ral↑ role changed$534,725.54▲ 3.2%
2018
Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général↑ role changed$517,913.57▲ 25.2%
2016First
Director and Chief Executive Officer$413,542.66
8 years total$4.1M total$507,935.00 avg
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Employee details

Position
Director and Chief Executive Officer/Directeur général
Sector
Province
Ontario
First appeared
2016
Latest disclosure
2025
Years on list
8

Data source

Salary data is published annually by the Ontario government under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act. Only employees earning $100,000+ are disclosed.

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