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Environmental Commissioner vs Ombudsman Ontario: who pays more?

Environmental Commissioner last filed 7 employees in 2018 with a median of $111,848; Ombudsman Ontario filed 122 in 2025 with a median of $127,576 — Ombudsman Ontario (2025) pays its listed staff 14% more at the median, and Ombudsman Ontario lists 17× as many people. The two are compared at their own latest filings.

Environmental Commissioner last filed in 2018, so the two sides below are each shown at their own most recent filing.

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On the list

Environmental Commissioner
7
Ombudsman Ontario
122

employees paid $100K+, each at its latest year

Median salary

Environmental Commissioner
$111,848
Ombudsman Ontario
$127,576

salary paid, each at its latest year

Average salary

Environmental Commissioner
$128,157
Ombudsman Ontario
$135,003

salary paid, each at its latest year

Listed payroll

Environmental Commissioner
$898K
Ombudsman Ontario
$16.5M

total compensation, each at its latest year

Median salary by year
1996–2025

  • Environmental Commissioner
  • Ombudsman Ontario
Environmental Commissioner and Ombudsman Ontario, 1996–2025Environmental Commissioner: $114,233 in 2014 to $111,848 in 2018. Ombudsman Ontario: $115,680 in 2001 to $127,576 in 2025.$0$50K$100K$150K$200K1996200620152025

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

Environmental Commissioner and Ombudsman Ontario by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearEnvironmental CommissionerOmbudsman Ontario
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
2025——122$127,576
2024——74$119,238
2023——71$124,575
2022——42$111,097
2021——35$116,475
2020——36$110,838
2019——27$107,771
20187$111,84824$111,475
20175$110,66821$113,202
2016<5<521$108,374
2015<5<513$128,833
20145$114,23317$111,018
2013<5<512$138,943
2012<5<515$124,664
2011<5<511$137,000
2010<5<58$169,730
2009<5<510$152,269
2008<5<59$162,504
2007<5<57$171,949
2006<5<56$166,914
2005<5<55$143,760
2004——5$143,426
2003——6$140,269
2002——5$129,208
2001——5$115,680
2000——<5<5
1999——<5<5
1998——<5<5
1997——<5<5
1996——<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: Government of Ontario – Legislative Assembly and Offices. Data runs through 2025. The 2025 figures were published here on .