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

In 2025 City of Toronto listed 13,079 employees with a median of $128,018; City of Vaughan listed 1,028 with a median of $130,165 — City of Vaughan pays its listed staff 2% more at the median, and City of Toronto lists 13× as many people.

On the list

City of Toronto
13,079
City of Vaughan
1,028

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Toronto
$128,018
City of Vaughan
$130,165

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Toronto
$135,219
City of Vaughan
$137,103

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Toronto
$1.8B
City of Vaughan
$141.6M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • City of Toronto
  • City of Vaughan
City of Toronto and City of Vaughan, 1996–2025City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025. City of Vaughan: $111,339 in 1998 to $130,165 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 Toronto and City of Vaughan by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of TorontoCity of Vaughan
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
202513,079$128,0181,028$130,165
202410,256$125,118828$125,313
20239,256$123,848743$122,756
20228,107$122,667696$124,214
20217,345$119,193636$120,214
20207,239$115,178601$117,847
20196,806$113,267573$114,211
20186,188$113,493506$115,183
20175,872$114,019435$113,537
20164,400$113,699359$113,587
20154,382$113,021358$115,769
20144,901$111,860236$115,456
20134,892$111,793258$117,079
20122,375$112,127189$114,701
20112,189$110,973138$111,095
20102,137$111,128173$116,070
20092,072$113,44780$116,300
20081,552$112,47863$117,223
20071,738$110,89546$123,585
2006989$108,23948$119,641
2005732$109,81135$119,504
2004503$111,46744$122,123
2003527$114,00522$111,142
2002407$114,33423$109,326
2001198$112,4348$121,668
2000205$114,7328$125,770
1999116$107,5705$113,321
1998100$108,0555$111,339
199752$110,437<5<5
199634$107,575<5<5

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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.