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City of Toronto vs County of Simcoe: who pays more?

City of Toronto had 13,079 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $128,018, County of Simcoe 584 with a median of $115,219 — City of Toronto pays its listed staff 11% more at the median, and City of Toronto lists 22× as many people.

On the list

City of Toronto
13,079
County of Simcoe
584

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Toronto
$128,018
County of Simcoe
$115,219

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Toronto
$135,219
County of Simcoe
$122,077

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Toronto
$1.8B
County of Simcoe
$71.7M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • City of Toronto
  • County of Simcoe
City of Toronto and County of Simcoe, 1996–2025City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025. County of Simcoe: $115,945 in 2006 to $115,219 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 County of Simcoe by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of TorontoCounty of Simcoe
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
202513,079$128,018584$115,219
202410,256$125,118514$115,011
20239,256$123,848378$113,468
20228,107$122,667295$112,489
20217,345$119,193271$110,906
20207,239$115,178252$111,156
20196,806$113,267166$112,264
20186,188$113,493129$112,073
20175,872$114,019133$110,376
20164,400$113,699115$109,518
20154,382$113,021101$108,771
20144,901$111,86072$113,461
20134,892$111,79355$119,840
20122,375$112,12759$107,576
20112,189$110,97334$113,825
20102,137$111,12830$113,378
20092,072$113,44728$112,103
20081,552$112,47831$120,359
20071,738$110,89517$114,002
2006989$108,23912$115,945
2005732$109,811<5<5
2004503$111,467<5<5
2003527$114,005<5<5
2002407$114,334
2001198$112,434<5<5
2000205$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.