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Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs vs Ontario Provincial Police: who pays more?

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs last filed 516 employees in 2024 with a median of $116,430; Ontario Provincial Police filed 7,684 in 2025 with a median of $155,704 — Ontario Provincial Police (2025) pays its listed staff 34% more at the median, and Ontario Provincial Police lists 15× as many people. The two are compared at their own latest filings.

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs last filed in 2024, so the two sides below are each shown at their own most recent filing.

On the list

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
516
Ontario Provincial Police
7,684

employees paid $100K+, each at its latest year

Median salary

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
$116,430
Ontario Provincial Police
$155,704

salary paid, each at its latest year

Average salary

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
$122,283
Ontario Provincial Police
$157,496

salary paid, each at its latest year

Listed payroll

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
$63.2M
Ontario Provincial Police
$1.2B

total compensation, each at its latest year

Median salary by year
19982025

  • Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  • Ontario Provincial Police
Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Ontario Provincial Police, 1998–2025Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs: $127,307 in 1998 to $116,430 in 2024. Ontario Provincial Police: $106,272 in 2018 to $155,704 in 2025.$0$50K$100K$150K$200K1998200720162025

Median salary paid on each employer’s Sunshine List filing. A gap is a year the employer filed nobody under this name.

Year by year

Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and Ontario Provincial Police by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearAgriculture, Food and Rural AffairsOntario Provincial Police
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
20257,684$155,704
2024516$116,4305,825$130,907
2023376$112,5935,329$128,709
2022296$114,5215,248$130,677
2021290$112,7495,370$125,051
2020269$113,2025,055$123,079
2019263$110,9885,062$120,197
2018256$109,9745$106,272
2017244$108,181
2016194$106,382
2015144$108,474
2014133$109,922
2013111$108,655
2012106$108,655
2011101$108,655
201094$109,181
200981$109,087
200852$114,441
200733$125,049
200632$118,129
200530$113,771
200426$110,417
200325$111,379
200225$112,382
200119$107,076
200016$104,257
199917$103,957
19987$127,307

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Method. Medians and averages are salary paid; listed payroll is total compensation (salary plus taxable benefits), as filed. Both sides come from the same Ontario Sunshine List, which covers only public-sector employees paid $100,000 or more — so this compares the shape of each employer’s six-figure payroll, not its whole workforce, and an employer with more low-paid staff simply lists fewer of them. A side with fewer than five people keeps its count but shows “<5” instead of a median, average or payroll figure, since any of those would be that handful of people’s own numbers. Sector: Government of Ontario – Ministries. Data runs through 2025.