Queen's University vs University of Ottawa: who pays more?
Queen's University had 1,469 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $173,378, University of Ottawa 2,861 with a median of $144,819 — Queen's University pays its listed staff 20% more at the median, and University of Ottawa lists 1.9× as many people.
On the list
- Queen's University
- 1,469
- University of Ottawa
- 2,861
employees paid $100K+, 2025
Median salary
- Queen's University
- $173,378
- University of Ottawa
- $144,819
salary paid, 2025
Average salary
- Queen's University
- $174,914
- University of Ottawa
- $158,196
salary paid, 2025
Listed payroll
- Queen's University
- $257.4M
- University of Ottawa
- $452.7M
total compensation, 2025
Median salary by year
1996–2025
- Queen's University
- University of Ottawa
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 | Queen's University | University of Ottawa | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 1,469 | $173,378 | 2,861 | $144,819 |
| 2024 | 1,476 | $169,746 | 2,244 | $160,342 |
| 2023 | 1,415 | $169,195 | 2,047 | $151,849 |
| 2022 | 1,314 | $157,120 | 1,949 | $153,018 |
| 2021 | 1,286 | $157,709 | 1,850 | $153,279 |
| 2020 | 1,219 | $155,774 | 1,675 | $154,271 |
| 2019 | 1,134 | $155,151 | 1,595 | $153,684 |
| 2018 | 1,070 | $158,494 | 1,530 | $150,159 |
| 2017 | 1,039 | $149,776 | 1,496 | $148,005 |
| 2016 | 1,018 | $147,459 | 1,440 | $143,194 |
| 2015 | 995 | $145,926 | 1,400 | $139,168 |
| 2014 | 961 | $145,162 | 1,279 | $136,994 |
| 2013 | 945 | $140,185 | 1,246 | $136,210 |
| 2012 | 946 | $137,127 | 1,047 | $129,308 |
| 2011 | 918 | $135,803 | 1,023 | $127,645 |
| 2010 | 884 | $132,149 | 967 | $126,911 |
| 2009 | 839 | $127,531 | 861 | $125,466 |
| 2008 | 766 | $125,006 | 685 | $118,823 |
| 2007 | 667 | $120,414 | 627 | $119,297 |
| 2006 | 572 | $117,712 | 650 | $123,727 |
| 2005 | 502 | $115,891 | 369 | $113,153 |
| 2004 | 392 | $114,835 | 341 | $112,404 |
| 2003 | 333 | $112,438 | 303 | $113,834 |
| 2002 | 258 | $112,520 | 260 | $112,565 |
| 2001 | 203 | $110,633 | 207 | $112,783 |
| 2000 | 147 | $110,190 | 148 | $110,600 |
| 1999 | 112 | $111,283 | 155 | $109,136 |
| 1998 | 91 | $109,813 | 126 | $108,154 |
| 1997 | 74 | $110,402 | 107 | $106,980 |
| 1996 | 66 | $110,051 | 76 | $104,691 |
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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: Universities. Data runs through 2025.