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

City of Pickering had 227 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $123,584, City of Toronto 13,079 with a median of $128,018 — City of Toronto pays its listed staff 4% more at the median, and City of Toronto lists 58× as many people.

On the list

City of Pickering
227
City of Toronto
13,079

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Pickering
$123,584
City of Toronto
$128,018

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Pickering
$130,843
City of Toronto
$135,219

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Pickering
$30.0M
City of Toronto
$1.8B

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • City of Pickering
  • City of Toronto
City of Pickering and City of Toronto, 1996–2025City of Pickering: $108,957 in 2003 to $123,584 in 2025. 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 Pickering and City of Toronto by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of PickeringCity of Toronto
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
2025227$123,58413,079$128,018
2024208$124,70610,256$125,118
2023190$125,8919,256$123,848
2022173$130,5268,107$122,667
2021149$114,5637,345$119,193
2020143$113,7577,239$115,178
2019135$113,5216,806$113,267
2018133$112,6646,188$113,493
2017120$113,6525,872$114,019
2016122$113,4564,400$113,699
2015125$110,6944,382$113,021
2014102$114,0654,901$111,860
201385$111,6904,892$111,793
2012104$111,8922,375$112,127
201159$111,6442,189$110,973
201048$111,7522,137$111,128
200954$110,0722,072$113,447
200864$114,2701,552$112,478
200731$107,3131,738$110,895
200611$115,611989$108,239
20059$107,547732$109,811
20049$111,351503$111,467
20035$108,957527$114,005
2002<5<5407$114,334
2001<5<5198$112,434
2000<5<5205$114,732
1999116$107,570
1998100$108,055
199752$110,437
199634$107,575

Related questions

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.