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City of Toronto vs Municipality of Highlands East: who pays more?

In 2025 City of Toronto listed 13,079 employees with a median of $128,018; Municipality of Highlands East listed 8 with a median of $112,477 — that is 14% more at the median for City of Toronto, and City of Toronto lists 1635× as many people.

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On the list

City of Toronto
13,079
Municipality of Highlands East
8

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Toronto
$128,018
Municipality of Highlands East
$112,477

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Toronto
$135,219
Municipality of Highlands East
$116,146

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Toronto
$1.8B
Municipality of Highlands East
$940K

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
1996–2025

  • City of Toronto
  • Municipality of Highlands East
City of Toronto and Municipality of Highlands East, 1996–2025City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025. Municipality of Highlands East: $107,435 in 2024 to $112,477 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 Highlands East by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of TorontoMunicipality of Highlands East
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
202513,079$128,0188$112,477
202410,256$125,1186$107,435
20239,256$123,848<5<5
20228,107$122,667<5<5
20217,345$119,193<5<5
20207,239$115,178<5<5
20196,806$113,267<5<5
20186,188$113,493<5<5
20175,872$114,019<5<5
20164,400$113,699<5<5
20154,382$113,021——
20144,901$111,860——
20134,892$111,793——
20122,375$112,127——
20112,189$110,973——
20102,137$111,128——
20092,072$113,447——
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——

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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. The 2025 figures were published here on .