Senior executive and senior contractor salaries at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories ~ updated ATIP request

January 2026

A 2016 Access to Information request revealed that: (original post including PDFs of the ATIP documents is here)

  • Nine senior executives of CNL were paid an average of $722,000 per person per year (including travel) and most were non-Canadian.
  • Twenty-eight senior contractors were paid an average of $377,275 per year per person. 27 of the 28 senior contractors were non-Canadian.

An October 2024 follow-up ATIP request (see screen cap below) revealed that the average salary for 14 senior executives was $569,260 per person per year and the average salary for 30 non-executive senior contractors (20 non-Canadians) was $482,786 per person per year.

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