City of Toronto vs Regional Municipality of York: who pays more?
City of Toronto had 13,079 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $128,018, Regional Municipality of York 2,400 with a median of $118,058 — that is 8% more at the median for City of Toronto, and City of Toronto lists 5.4× as many people.
On the list
- City of Toronto
- 13,079
- Regional Municipality of York
- 2,400
employees paid $100K+, 2025
Median salary
- City of Toronto
- $128,018
- Regional Municipality of York
- $118,058
salary paid, 2025
Average salary
- City of Toronto
- $135,219
- Regional Municipality of York
- $126,411
salary paid, 2025
Listed payroll
- City of Toronto
- $1.8B
- Regional Municipality of York
- $304.4M
total compensation, 2025
Median salary by year
1996–2025
- City of Toronto
- Regional Municipality of York
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 York | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 13,079 | $128,018 | 2,400 | $118,058 |
| 2024 | 10,256 | $125,118 | 2,040 | $117,502 |
| 2023 | 9,256 | $123,848 | 1,807 | $116,299 |
| 2022 | 8,107 | $122,667 | 1,817 | $116,758 |
| 2021 | 7,345 | $119,193 | 1,445 | $119,682 |
| 2020 | 7,239 | $115,178 | 1,437 | $117,431 |
| 2019 | 6,806 | $113,267 | 1,166 | $116,121 |
| 2018 | 6,188 | $113,493 | 1,033 | $115,481 |
| 2017 | 5,872 | $114,019 | 958 | $114,927 |
| 2016 | 4,400 | $113,699 | 727 | $116,027 |
| 2015 | 4,382 | $113,021 | 661 | $116,293 |
| 2014 | 4,901 | $111,860 | 691 | $117,561 |
| 2013 | 4,892 | $111,793 | 491 | $118,513 |
| 2012 | 2,375 | $112,127 | 441 | $117,555 |
| 2011 | 2,189 | $110,973 | 823 | $110,771 |
| 2010 | 2,137 | $111,128 | 686 | $110,418 |
| 2009 | 2,072 | $113,447 | 249 | $113,071 |
| 2008 | 1,552 | $112,478 | 236 | $111,302 |
| 2007 | 1,738 | $110,895 | 165 | $111,494 |
| 2006 | 989 | $108,239 | 146 | $111,338 |
| 2005 | 732 | $109,811 | 93 | $118,339 |
| 2004 | 503 | $111,467 | 74 | $116,138 |
| 2003 | 527 | $114,005 | 116 | $112,896 |
| 2002 | 407 | $114,334 | 50 | $113,134 |
| 2001 | 198 | $112,434 | 39 | $113,057 |
| 2000 | 205 | $114,732 | 22 | $109,769 |
| 1999 | 116 | $107,570 | 11 | $111,828 |
| 1998 | 100 | $108,055 | — | — |
| 1997 | 52 | $110,437 | 9 | $104,818 |
| 1996 | 34 | $107,575 | 8 | $116,521 |
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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.