Mcmaster University vs Toronto Metropolitan University: who pays more?
Mcmaster University had 1,966 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $150,713, Toronto Metropolitan University 2,039 with a median of $145,594 — Mcmaster University pays its listed staff 4% more at the median, and Toronto Metropolitan University lists 1× as many people.
On the list
- Mcmaster University
- 1,966
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- 2,039
employees paid $100K+, 2025
Median salary
- Mcmaster University
- $150,713
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- $145,594
salary paid, 2025
Average salary
- Mcmaster University
- $165,955
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- $163,459
salary paid, 2025
Listed payroll
- Mcmaster University
- $330.4M
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- $335.3M
total compensation, 2025
Median salary by year
1996–2025
- Mcmaster University
- Toronto Metropolitan University
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 | Mcmaster University | Toronto Metropolitan University | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 1,966 | $150,713 | 2,039 | $145,594 |
| 2024 | 1,818 | $152,728 | 1,935 | $146,700 |
| 2023 | 1,661 | $155,260 | 1,847 | $146,079 |
| 2022 | 1,536 | $157,175 | 1,641 | $147,852 |
| 2021 | 1,437 | $158,018 | 1,601 | $146,611 |
| 2020 | 1,425 | $155,833 | 1,448 | $147,387 |
| 2019 | 1,300 | $157,352 | 1,363 | $148,546 |
| 2018 | 1,256 | $156,524 | 1,280 | $144,623 |
| 2017 | 1,203 | $154,661 | 1,201 | $145,607 |
| 2016 | 1,150 | $152,509 | 1,192 | $144,405 |
| 2015 | 1,137 | $153,513 | 1,046 | $142,632 |
| 2014 | 1,063 | $144,863 | 1,022 | $139,019 |
| 2013 | 1,032 | $145,110 | 946 | $135,553 |
| 2012 | 1,015 | $141,776 | 892 | $133,485 |
| 2011 | 967 | $137,557 | 790 | $128,075 |
| 2010 | 928 | $134,053 | 756 | $125,206 |
| 2009 | 883 | $129,185 | 704 | $123,186 |
| 2008 | 793 | $124,758 | 548 | $119,637 |
| 2007 | 733 | $123,266 | 489 | $118,593 |
| 2006 | 625 | $120,186 | 393 | $116,299 |
| 2005 | 536 | $119,440 | 324 | $114,150 |
| 2004 | 437 | $115,753 | 276 | $110,542 |
| 2003 | 359 | $112,520 | 263 | $111,826 |
| 2002 | 297 | $109,367 | 76 | $111,901 |
| 2001 | 235 | $108,629 | 80 | $112,433 |
| 2000 | 213 | $106,992 | 66 | $110,433 |
| 1999 | 142 | $106,193 | 71 | $106,238 |
| 1998 | 93 | $109,190 | 30 | $106,492 |
| 1997 | 77 | $113,746 | 29 | $105,637 |
| 1996 | 72 | $110,159 | 17 | $111,128 |
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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: Universities. Data runs through 2025.