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Metrolinx vs Ontario Arts Council: who pays more?

Metrolinx had 4,713 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $127,736, Ontario Arts Council 28 with a median of $125,405 — that is 2% more at the median for Metrolinx, and Metrolinx lists 168× as many people.

On the list

Metrolinx
4,713
Ontario Arts Council
28

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

Metrolinx
$127,736
Ontario Arts Council
$125,405

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

Metrolinx
$138,712
Ontario Arts Council
$131,592

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

Metrolinx
$656.5M
Ontario Arts Council
$3.7M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
19962025

  • Metrolinx
  • Ontario Arts Council
Metrolinx and Ontario Arts Council, 1996–2025Metrolinx: $118,119 in 2009 to $127,736 in 2025. Ontario Arts Council: $125,040 in 2012 to $125,405 in 2025.$0$50K$100K$150K1996200920172025

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

Metrolinx and Ontario Arts Council by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearMetrolinxOntario Arts Council
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
20254,713$127,73628$125,405
20244,276$127,50119$127,813
20233,037$124,02813$123,356
20222,082$121,39316$119,201
20211,494$119,82613$118,229
20201,144$117,39314$123,115
20191,015$114,66713$126,462
2018827$112,47513$121,350
2017620$114,42511$118,269
2016481$115,3948$122,126
2015411$116,37816$111,849
2014359$117,9265$117,000
2013261$119,3795$109,300
2012262$116,4995$125,040
2011176$114,945<5<5
2010116$116,328<5<5
200990$118,119<5<5
2008<5<5
2007<5<5
2006<5<5
2005<5<5
2004<5<5
2003<5<5
2002<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: Crown Agencies. Data runs through 2025.