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City of Toronto vs Regional Municipality of Durham: who pays more?

In 2025 City of Toronto listed 13,079 employees with a median of $128,018; Regional Municipality of Durham listed 2,933 with a median of $126,414 — that is 1% more at the median for City of Toronto, and City of Toronto lists 4.5× as many people.

On the list

City of Toronto
13,079
Regional Municipality of Durham
2,933

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Toronto
$128,018
Regional Municipality of Durham
$126,414

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Toronto
$135,219
Regional Municipality of Durham
$132,068

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Toronto
$1.8B
Regional Municipality of Durham
$390.3M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • City of Toronto
  • Regional Municipality of Durham
City of Toronto and Regional Municipality of Durham, 1996–2025City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025. Regional Municipality of Durham: $106,290 in 1996 to $126,414 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 Regional Municipality of Durham by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of TorontoRegional Municipality of Durham
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
202513,079$128,0182,933$126,414
202410,256$125,1182,465$122,523
20239,256$123,8482,099$121,511
20228,107$122,6672,041$118,537
20217,345$119,1931,763$119,304
20207,239$115,1781,768$117,723
20196,806$113,2671,529$114,857
20186,188$113,4931,388$114,000
20175,872$114,0191,285$113,629
20164,400$113,6991,297$112,534
20154,382$113,0211,090$111,415
20144,901$111,860993$110,642
20134,892$111,793805$110,018
20122,375$112,127679$110,200
20112,189$110,973579$108,411
20102,137$111,128525$108,896
20092,072$113,447611$110,620
20081,552$112,478276$109,257
20071,738$110,895319$109,653
2006989$108,239184$111,690
2005732$109,811198$112,157
2004503$111,467141$109,529
2003527$114,00589$109,972
2002407$114,33464$109,672
2001198$112,43455$107,729
2000205$114,73217$115,176
1999116$107,57015$112,310
1998100$108,05510$118,419
199752$110,43710$110,588
199634$107,57511$106,290

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.