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Ombudsman Ontario vs Provincial Advocate: who pays more?

Ombudsman Ontario last filed 122 employees in 2025 with a median of $127,576; Provincial Advocate filed fewer than five in 2019 (too few to publish a median) — too few people at Provincial Advocate to compare medians. The two are compared at their own latest filings.

Provincial Advocate last filed in 2019, so the two sides below are each shown at their own most recent filing.

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On the list

Ombudsman Ontario
122
Provincial Advocate
<5

employees paid $100K+, each at its latest year

Median salary

Ombudsman Ontario
$127,576
Provincial Advocate
<5

salary paid, each at its latest year

Average salary

Ombudsman Ontario
$135,003
Provincial Advocate
<5

salary paid, each at its latest year

Listed payroll

Ombudsman Ontario
$16.5M
Provincial Advocate
<5

total compensation, each at its latest year

Median salary by year
1996–2025

  • Ombudsman Ontario
  • Provincial Advocate
Ombudsman Ontario and Provincial Advocate, 1996–2025Ombudsman Ontario: $115,680 in 2001 to $127,576 in 2025. Provincial Advocate: $113,858 in 2013 to $111,852 in 2018.$0$50K$100K$150K$200K1996200620152025

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

Ombudsman Ontario and Provincial Advocate by year: people on the Sunshine List and median salary
YearOmbudsman OntarioProvincial Advocate
PeopleMedianPeopleMedian
2025122$127,576——
202474$119,238——
202371$124,575——
202242$111,097——
202135$116,475——
202036$110,838——
201927$107,771<5<5
201824$111,47521$111,852
201721$113,20212$119,637
201621$108,3745$114,840
201513$128,833<5<5
201417$111,0185$112,474
201312$138,9438$113,858
201215$124,664<5<5
201111$137,000<5<5
20108$169,730<5<5
200910$152,269<5<5
20089$162,504——
20077$171,949——
20066$166,914——
20055$143,760——
20045$143,426——
20036$140,269——
20025$129,208——
20015$115,680——
2000<5<5——
1999<5<5——
1998<5<5——
1997<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: Government of Ontario – Legislative Assembly and Offices. Data runs through 2025. The 2025 figures were published here on .