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

In 2025 City of Toronto listed 13,079 employees with a median of $128,018; Municipality of Clarington listed 204 with a median of $135,511 — Municipality of Clarington pays its listed staff 6% more at the median, and City of Toronto lists 64× as many people.

On the list

City of Toronto
13,079
Municipality of Clarington
204

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Toronto
$128,018
Municipality of Clarington
$135,511

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Toronto
$135,219
Municipality of Clarington
$142,301

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Toronto
$1.8B
Municipality of Clarington
$29.4M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • City of Toronto
  • Municipality of Clarington
City of Toronto and Municipality of Clarington, 1996–2025City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025. Municipality of Clarington: $108,946 in 2002 to $135,511 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 Clarington by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of TorontoMunicipality of Clarington
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
202513,079$128,018204$135,511
202410,256$125,118155$123,592
20239,256$123,848133$120,148
20228,107$122,667111$120,281
20217,345$119,193101$118,703
20207,239$115,178103$116,263
20196,806$113,267110$113,662
20186,188$113,49395$112,963
20175,872$114,019100$111,609
20164,400$113,69993$111,507
20154,382$113,02170$115,162
20144,901$111,86085$112,698
20134,892$111,79357$113,578
20122,375$112,12749$113,068
20112,189$110,97345$115,811
20102,137$111,12847$114,933
20092,072$113,44723$111,652
20081,552$112,47821$109,623
20071,738$110,89517$111,809
2006989$108,23911$120,502
2005732$109,8119$119,850
2004503$111,4679$113,240
2003527$114,00512$106,477
2002407$114,3345$108,946
2001198$112,434<5<5
2000205$114,732
1999116$107,570<5<5
1998100$108,055
199752$110,437
199634$107,575<5<5

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.