COTA vs ORNGE: who pays more?
COTA last filed 5 employees in 2003 with a median of $112,005; ORNGE filed 406 in 2025 with a median of $142,662 — ORNGE (2025) pays its listed staff 27% more at the median, and ORNGE lists 81× as many people. The two are compared at their own latest filings.
COTA last filed in 2003, so the two sides below are each shown at their own most recent filing.
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On the list
- COTA
- 5
- ORNGE
- 406
employees paid $100K+, each at its latest year
Median salary
- COTA
- $112,005
- ORNGE
- $142,662
salary paid, each at its latest year
Average salary
- COTA
- $120,517
- ORNGE
- $146,760
salary paid, each at its latest year
Listed payroll
- COTA
- $673K
- ORNGE
- $60.5M
total compensation, each at its latest year
Median salary by year
2002–2025
- COTA
- ORNGE
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 | COTA | ORNGE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | — | — | 406 | $142,662 |
| 2024 | — | — | 323 | $142,812 |
| 2023 | — | — | 275 | $141,393 |
| 2022 | — | — | 245 | $127,908 |
| 2021 | — | — | 236 | $127,772 |
| 2020 | — | — | 243 | $121,199 |
| 2019 | — | — | 200 | $114,892 |
| 2018 | — | — | 170 | $115,357 |
| 2017 | — | — | 166 | $116,666 |
| 2016 | — | — | 144 | $114,004 |
| 2015 | — | — | 160 | $116,299 |
| 2014 | — | — | 161 | $114,682 |
| 2013 | — | — | 148 | $113,312 |
| 2012 | — | — | 129 | $117,606 |
| 2011 | — | — | 135 | $116,061 |
| 2010 | — | — | 116 | $114,913 |
| 2009 | — | — | 95 | $110,075 |
| 2008 | — | — | 83 | $111,830 |
| 2007 | — | — | 36 | $106,675 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | $119,992 |
| 2003 | 5 | $112,005 | — | — |
| 2002 | <5 | <5 | — | — |
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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: Other Public Sector Employers. Data runs through 2025. The 2025 figures were published here on .