Education vs Solicitor General: who pays more?
Education had 756 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $127,198, Solicitor General 5,958 with a median of $122,057 — that is 4% more at the median for Education, and Solicitor General lists 7.9× as many people.
On the list
- Education
- 756
- Solicitor General
- 5,958
employees paid $100K+, 2025
Median salary
- Education
- $127,198
- Solicitor General
- $122,057
salary paid, 2025
Average salary
- Education
- $132,926
- Solicitor General
- $131,360
salary paid, 2025
Listed payroll
- Education
- $100.6M
- Solicitor General
- $783.6M
total compensation, 2025
Median salary by year
1999–2025
- Education
- Solicitor General
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 | Education | Solicitor General | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 756 | $127,198 | 5,958 | $122,057 |
| 2024 | 895 | $125,991 | 6,319 | $118,361 |
| 2023 | 733 | $112,603 | 3,313 | $115,193 |
| 2022 | 671 | $113,259 | 2,911 | $114,089 |
| 2021 | 637 | $114,616 | 2,788 | $113,934 |
| 2020 | 575 | $115,181 | 2,552 | $113,122 |
| 2019 | 609 | $112,575 | 1,830 | $111,856 |
| 2018 | 567 | $113,996 | — | — |
| 2017 | 517 | $112,557 | — | — |
| 2016 | 474 | $111,685 | — | — |
| 2015 | 423 | $111,370 | — | — |
| 2014 | 480 | $112,208 | — | — |
| 2013 | 405 | $114,630 | — | — |
| 2012 | 396 | $115,128 | — | — |
| 2011 | 385 | $113,215 | — | — |
| 2010 | 346 | $113,826 | — | — |
| 2009 | 296 | $113,239 | — | — |
| 2008 | 220 | $110,621 | — | — |
| 2007 | 151 | $109,528 | — | — |
| 2006 | 120 | $104,575 | — | — |
| 2005 | 79 | $106,917 | — | — |
| 2004 | 59 | $106,035 | — | — |
| 2003 | 59 | $108,311 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | $112,629 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | $110,957 | 103 | $107,689 |
| 2000 | 17 | $104,270 | 69 | $106,418 |
| 1999 | 16 | $107,179 | 50 | $113,956 |
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: Government of Ontario – Ministries. Data runs through 2025.