Metrolinx vs Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority: who pays more?
Metrolinx last filed 4,713 employees in 2025 with a median of $127,736; Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority filed fewer than five in 1996 (too few to publish a median) — too few people at Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority to compare medians. The two are compared at their own latest filings.
Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority last filed in 1996, so the two sides below are each shown at their own most recent filing.
On the list
- Metrolinx
- 4,713
- Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority
- <5
employees paid $100K+, each at its latest year
Median salary
- Metrolinx
- $127,736
- Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority
- <5
salary paid, each at its latest year
Average salary
- Metrolinx
- $138,712
- Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority
- <5
salary paid, each at its latest year
Listed payroll
- Metrolinx
- $656.5M
- Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority
- <5
total compensation, each at its latest year
Median salary by year
1996–2025
- Metrolinx
- Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority
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 | Metrolinx | Toronto Area Transit Operating Authority | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 4,713 | $127,736 | — | — |
| 2024 | 4,276 | $127,501 | — | — |
| 2023 | 3,037 | $124,028 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,082 | $121,393 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,494 | $119,826 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,144 | $117,393 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,015 | $114,667 | — | — |
| 2018 | 827 | $112,475 | — | — |
| 2017 | 620 | $114,425 | — | — |
| 2016 | 481 | $115,394 | — | — |
| 2015 | 411 | $116,378 | — | — |
| 2014 | 359 | $117,926 | — | — |
| 2013 | 261 | $119,379 | — | — |
| 2012 | 262 | $116,499 | — | — |
| 2011 | 176 | $114,945 | — | — |
| 2010 | 116 | $116,328 | — | — |
| 2009 | 90 | $118,119 | — | — |
| 1996 | — | — | <5 | <5 |
Related questions
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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.