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
1996–2025
- City of Toronto
- Regional Municipality of Durham
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
| Year | City of Toronto | Regional Municipality of Durham | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 13,079 | $128,018 | 2,933 | $126,414 |
| 2024 | 10,256 | $125,118 | 2,465 | $122,523 |
| 2023 | 9,256 | $123,848 | 2,099 | $121,511 |
| 2022 | 8,107 | $122,667 | 2,041 | $118,537 |
| 2021 | 7,345 | $119,193 | 1,763 | $119,304 |
| 2020 | 7,239 | $115,178 | 1,768 | $117,723 |
| 2019 | 6,806 | $113,267 | 1,529 | $114,857 |
| 2018 | 6,188 | $113,493 | 1,388 | $114,000 |
| 2017 | 5,872 | $114,019 | 1,285 | $113,629 |
| 2016 | 4,400 | $113,699 | 1,297 | $112,534 |
| 2015 | 4,382 | $113,021 | 1,090 | $111,415 |
| 2014 | 4,901 | $111,860 | 993 | $110,642 |
| 2013 | 4,892 | $111,793 | 805 | $110,018 |
| 2012 | 2,375 | $112,127 | 679 | $110,200 |
| 2011 | 2,189 | $110,973 | 579 | $108,411 |
| 2010 | 2,137 | $111,128 | 525 | $108,896 |
| 2009 | 2,072 | $113,447 | 611 | $110,620 |
| 2008 | 1,552 | $112,478 | 276 | $109,257 |
| 2007 | 1,738 | $110,895 | 319 | $109,653 |
| 2006 | 989 | $108,239 | 184 | $111,690 |
| 2005 | 732 | $109,811 | 198 | $112,157 |
| 2004 | 503 | $111,467 | 141 | $109,529 |
| 2003 | 527 | $114,005 | 89 | $109,972 |
| 2002 | 407 | $114,334 | 64 | $109,672 |
| 2001 | 198 | $112,434 | 55 | $107,729 |
| 2000 | 205 | $114,732 | 17 | $115,176 |
| 1999 | 116 | $107,570 | 15 | $112,310 |
| 1998 | 100 | $108,055 | 10 | $118,419 |
| 1997 | 52 | $110,437 | 10 | $110,588 |
| 1996 | 34 | $107,575 | 11 | $106,290 |
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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.