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City of Toronto vs Town of Collingwood: who pays more?

City of Toronto had 13,079 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $128,018, Town of Collingwood 79 with a median of $124,779 — City of Toronto pays its listed staff 3% more at the median, and City of Toronto lists 166× as many people.

On the list

City of Toronto
13,079
Town of Collingwood
79

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

City of Toronto
$128,018
Town of Collingwood
$124,779

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

City of Toronto
$135,219
Town of Collingwood
$128,025

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

City of Toronto
$1.8B
Town of Collingwood
$10.2M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • City of Toronto
  • Town of Collingwood
City of Toronto and Town of Collingwood, 1996–2025City of Toronto: $107,575 in 1996 to $128,018 in 2025. Town of Collingwood: $106,782 in 2008 to $124,779 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 Town of Collingwood by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearCity of TorontoTown of Collingwood
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
202513,079$128,01879$124,779
202410,256$125,11871$121,820
20239,256$123,84863$119,241
20228,107$122,66761$115,930
20217,345$119,19347$115,205
20207,239$115,17850$117,208
20196,806$113,26748$118,543
20186,188$113,49342$112,848
20175,872$114,01931$119,113
20164,400$113,69941$112,151
20154,382$113,02125$114,059
20144,901$111,86022$113,126
20134,892$111,79316$110,470
20122,375$112,12714$110,876
20112,189$110,97313$111,728
20102,137$111,12819$110,171
20092,072$113,44724$113,079
20081,552$112,4787$106,782
20071,738$110,895<5<5
2006989$108,239<5<5
2005732$109,811<5<5
2004503$111,467<5<5
2003527$114,005<5<5
2002407$114,334<5<5
2001198$112,434<5<5
2000205$114,732
1999116$107,570
1998100$108,055
199752$110,437
199634$107,575

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.