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City of Toronto vs Municipality of Brighton: who pays more?

In 2025 City of Toronto listed 13,079 employees with a median of $128,018; Municipality of Brighton listed 24 with a median of $128,335 — Municipality of Brighton pays its listed staff slightly more at the median, and City of Toronto lists 545× as many people.

On the list

City of Toronto
13,079
Municipality of Brighton
24

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Toronto
$128,018
Municipality of Brighton
$128,335

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Toronto
$135,219
Municipality of Brighton
$129,355

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Toronto
$1.8B
Municipality of Brighton
$3.1M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • City of Toronto
  • Municipality of Brighton
City of Toronto and Municipality of Brighton, 1996–2025City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025. Municipality of Brighton: $106,115 in 2017 to $128,335 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 Municipality of Brighton by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of TorontoMunicipality of Brighton
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
202513,079$128,01824$128,335
202410,256$125,11822$118,585
20239,256$123,84814$115,728
20228,107$122,6677$115,250
20217,345$119,1936$118,388
20207,239$115,178<5<5
20196,806$113,2675$112,295
20186,188$113,493<5<5
20175,872$114,0195$106,115
20164,400$113,699<5<5
20154,382$113,021<5<5
20144,901$111,860<5<5
20134,892$111,793<5<5
20122,375$112,127<5<5
20112,189$110,973<5<5
20102,137$111,128<5<5
20092,072$113,447<5<5
20081,552$112,478
20071,738$110,895
2006989$108,239
2005732$109,811
2004503$111,467
2003527$114,005
2002407$114,334
2001198$112,434
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.