Natural Resources and Forestry vs Ontario Provincial Police: who pays more?
Natural Resources and Forestry had 1,120 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $120,430, Ontario Provincial Police 7,684 with a median of $155,704 — Ontario Provincial Police pays its listed staff 29% more at the median, and Ontario Provincial Police lists 6.9× as many people.
On the list
- Natural Resources and Forestry
- 1,120
- Ontario Provincial Police
- 7,684
employees paid $100K+, 2025
Median salary
- Natural Resources and Forestry
- $120,430
- Ontario Provincial Police
- $155,704
salary paid, 2025
Average salary
- Natural Resources and Forestry
- $126,900
- Ontario Provincial Police
- $157,496
salary paid, 2025
Listed payroll
- Natural Resources and Forestry
- $142.3M
- Ontario Provincial Police
- $1.2B
total compensation, 2025
Median salary by year
1996–2025
- Natural Resources and Forestry
- Ontario Provincial Police
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 | Natural Resources and Forestry | Ontario Provincial Police | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 1,120 | $120,430 | 7,684 | $155,704 |
| 2024 | 1,164 | $115,836 | 5,825 | $130,907 |
| 2023 | 746 | $112,605 | 5,329 | $128,709 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5,248 | $130,677 |
| 2021 | 654 | $110,435 | 5,370 | $125,051 |
| 2020 | 556 | $108,786 | 5,055 | $123,079 |
| 2019 | 510 | $110,593 | 5,062 | $120,197 |
| 2018 | 546 | $109,110 | 5 | $106,272 |
| 2017 | 413 | $108,185 | — | — |
| 2016 | 344 | $107,503 | — | — |
| 2015 | 312 | $106,702 | — | — |
| 2014 | 351 | $106,615 | — | — |
| 2013 | 293 | $106,013 | — | — |
| 2012 | 316 | $106,612 | — | — |
| 2011 | 297 | $108,656 | — | — |
| 2010 | 249 | $109,181 | — | — |
| 2009 | 198 | $109,912 | — | — |
| 2008 | 143 | $107,813 | — | — |
| 2007 | 85 | $109,205 | — | — |
| 2006 | 72 | $109,132 | — | — |
| 2005 | 57 | $106,013 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | $107,251 | — | — |
| 2003 | 52 | $106,192 | — | — |
| 2002 | 49 | $112,291 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | $111,176 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | $110,172 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | $108,519 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | $125,212 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | $117,682 | — | — |
| 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 – Ministries. Data runs through 2025.