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Metrolinx vs Skilled Trades Ontario: who pays more?

In 2025 Metrolinx listed 4,713 employees with a median of $127,736; Skilled Trades Ontario listed 42 with a median of $121,595 — that is 5% more at the median for Metrolinx, and Metrolinx lists 112× as many people.

On the list

Metrolinx
4,713
Skilled Trades Ontario
42

employees paid $100K+, 2025

Median salary

Metrolinx
$127,736
Skilled Trades Ontario
$121,595

salary paid, 2025

Average salary

Metrolinx
$138,712
Skilled Trades Ontario
$136,592

salary paid, 2025

Listed payroll

Metrolinx
$656.5M
Skilled Trades Ontario
$6.0M

total compensation, 2025

Median salary by year
20092025

  • Metrolinx
  • Skilled Trades Ontario
Metrolinx and Skilled Trades Ontario, 2009–2025Metrolinx: $118,119 in 2009 to $127,736 in 2025. Skilled Trades Ontario: $149,007 in 2022 to $121,595 in 2025.$0$50K$100K$150K2009201420202025

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 Skilled Trades Ontario by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearMetrolinxSkilled Trades Ontario
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
20254,713$127,73642$121,595
20244,276$127,50142$117,056
20233,037$124,02822$125,569
20222,082$121,39322$149,007
20211,494$119,826
20201,144$117,393
20191,015$114,667
2018827$112,475
2017620$114,425
2016481$115,394
2015411$116,378
2014359$117,926
2013261$119,379
2012262$116,499
2011176$114,945
2010116$116,328
200990$118,119

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: Crown Agencies. Data runs through 2025.