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

In 2025 City of Toronto listed 13,079 employees with a median of $128,018; Regional Municipality of Halton listed 2,135 with a median of $128,827 — Regional Municipality of Halton pays its listed staff 1% more at the median, and City of Toronto lists 6.1× as many people.

On the list

City of Toronto
13,079
Regional Municipality of Halton
2,135

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Toronto
$128,018
Regional Municipality of Halton
$128,827

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Toronto
$135,219
Regional Municipality of Halton
$135,015

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Toronto
$1.8B
Regional Municipality of Halton
$290.0M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • City of Toronto
  • Regional Municipality of Halton
City of Toronto and Regional Municipality of Halton, 1996–2025City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025. Regional Municipality of Halton: $104,401 in 1996 to $128,827 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 Halton by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of TorontoRegional Municipality of Halton
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
202513,079$128,0182,135$128,827
202410,256$125,1181,862$124,523
20239,256$123,8481,464$118,876
20228,107$122,6671,400$118,132
20217,345$119,1931,288$117,405
20207,239$115,1781,168$115,563
20196,806$113,267967$115,041
20186,188$113,493879$113,540
20175,872$114,019850$112,088
20164,400$113,699791$111,037
20154,382$113,021700$110,673
20144,901$111,860751$110,046
20134,892$111,793500$109,420
20122,375$112,127393$108,235
20112,189$110,973342$109,507
20102,137$111,128283$109,851
20092,072$113,447210$111,621
20081,552$112,478147$110,177
20071,738$110,895125$109,131
2006989$108,23974$110,047
2005732$109,81160$112,004
2004503$111,46756$109,672
2003527$114,00530$110,372
2002407$114,33421$115,337
2001198$112,43419$107,386
2000205$114,73212$106,952
1999116$107,5706$118,513
1998100$108,0555$108,010
199752$110,4378$108,068
199634$107,5758$104,401

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.