City of Kitchener vs City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission: who pays more?
City of Kitchener had 620 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $126,758, City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission 9,614 with a median of $114,939 — City of Kitchener pays its listed staff 10% more at the median, and City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission lists 16× as many people.
On the list
- City of Kitchener
- 620
- City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission
- 9,614
employees paid $100K+, 2025
Median salary
- City of Kitchener
- $126,758
- City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission
- $114,939
salary paid, 2025
Average salary
- City of Kitchener
- $132,307
- City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission
- $121,680
salary paid, 2025
Listed payroll
- City of Kitchener
- $82.9M
- City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission
- $1.2B
total compensation, 2025
Median salary by year
1996–2025
- City of Kitchener
- City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission
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
| Year | City of Kitchener | City of Toronto – Toronto Transit Commission | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 620 | $126,758 | 9,614 | $114,939 |
| 2024 | 513 | $125,716 | 6,842 | $113,956 |
| 2023 | 417 | $118,706 | 4,784 | $110,842 |
| 2022 | 376 | $120,838 | 4,804 | $111,732 |
| 2021 | 339 | $120,159 | 3,277 | $110,957 |
| 2020 | 353 | $117,349 | 3,171 | $110,363 |
| 2019 | 352 | $119,964 | 3,033 | $112,429 |
| 2018 | 341 | $115,443 | 2,734 | $110,737 |
| 2017 | 294 | $112,668 | 2,632 | $112,033 |
| 2016 | 273 | $108,536 | 2,307 | $111,437 |
| 2015 | 302 | $108,372 | 2,143 | $112,296 |
| 2014 | 207 | $110,848 | 2,075 | $114,158 |
| 2013 | 120 | $111,657 | 1,748 | $110,170 |
| 2012 | 105 | $109,534 | 1,395 | $109,843 |
| 2011 | 108 | $110,806 | 1,158 | $109,780 |
| 2010 | 110 | $110,732 | 1,013 | $109,733 |
| 2009 | 92 | $111,934 | 724 | $109,587 |
| 2008 | 113 | $113,248 | 548 | $107,862 |
| 2007 | 41 | $111,118 | 388 | $105,448 |
| 2006 | 24 | $108,225 | 277 | $105,749 |
| 2005 | 21 | $110,033 | 134 | $111,608 |
| 2004 | 21 | $111,983 | 95 | $108,866 |
| 2003 | 11 | $116,260 | 86 | $109,773 |
| 2002 | 9 | $107,618 | 48 | $121,025 |
| 2001 | 8 | $107,713 | 34 | $121,811 |
| 2000 | 6 | $101,655 | 36 | $115,889 |
| 1999 | <5 | <5 | 28 | $112,970 |
| 1998 | <5 | <5 | 26 | $113,847 |
| 1997 | <5 | <5 | 23 | $109,415 |
| 1996 | <5 | <5 | 24 | $103,243 |
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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.