City of Chatham vs City of Toronto: who pays more?

City of Chatham last filed fewer than five employees in 1997 (too few to publish a median); City of Toronto filed 13,079 in 2025 with a median of $128,018 — too few people at City of Chatham to compare medians. The two are compared at their own latest filings.

City of Chatham last filed in 1997, so the two sides below are each shown at their own most recent filing.

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On the list

City of Chatham
<5
City of Toronto
13,079

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

Median salary

City of Chatham
<5
City of Toronto
$128,018

salary paid, each at its latest year

Average salary

City of Chatham
<5
City of Toronto
$135,219

salary paid, each at its latest year

Listed payroll

City of Chatham
<5
City of Toronto
$1.8B

total compensation, each at its latest year

Median salary by year
1996–2025

  • City of Chatham
  • City of Toronto
City of Chatham and City of Toronto, 1996–2025City of Chatham: no data. City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025.$0$50K$100K$150K1996200620152025

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

City of Chatham and City of Toronto by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of ChathamCity of Toronto
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
2025——13,079$128,018
2024——10,256$125,118
2023——9,256$123,848
2022——8,107$122,667
2021——7,345$119,193
2020——7,239$115,178
2019——6,806$113,267
2018——6,188$113,493
2017——5,872$114,019
2016——4,400$113,699
2015——4,382$113,021
2014——4,901$111,860
2013——4,892$111,793
2012——2,375$112,127
2011——2,189$110,973
2010——2,137$111,128
2009——2,072$113,447
2008——1,552$112,478
2007——1,738$110,895
2006——989$108,239
2005——732$109,811
2004——503$111,467
2003——527$114,005
2002——407$114,334
2001——198$112,434
2000——205$114,732
1999——116$107,570
1998——100$108,055
1997<5<552$110,437
1996——34$107,575

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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: Municipalities & Services. Data runs through 2025. The 2025 figures were published here on .