Toronto Metropolitan University vs University of Ottawa: who pays more?
Toronto Metropolitan University had 2,039 people on the 2025 Sunshine List with a median of $145,594, University of Ottawa 2,861 with a median of $144,819 — Toronto Metropolitan University pays its listed staff 1% more at the median, and University of Ottawa lists 1.4× as many people.
On the list
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- 2,039
- University of Ottawa
- 2,861
employees paid $100K+, 2025
Median salary
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- $145,594
- University of Ottawa
- $144,819
salary paid, 2025
Average salary
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- $163,459
- University of Ottawa
- $158,196
salary paid, 2025
Listed payroll
- Toronto Metropolitan University
- $335.3M
- University of Ottawa
- $452.7M
total compensation, 2025
Median salary by year
1996–2025
- Toronto Metropolitan 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 | Toronto Metropolitan University | University of Ottawa | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| People | Median | People | Median | |
| 2025 | 2,039 | $145,594 | 2,861 | $144,819 |
| 2024 | 1,935 | $146,700 | 2,244 | $160,342 |
| 2023 | 1,847 | $146,079 | 2,047 | $151,849 |
| 2022 | 1,641 | $147,852 | 1,949 | $153,018 |
| 2021 | 1,601 | $146,611 | 1,850 | $153,279 |
| 2020 | 1,448 | $147,387 | 1,675 | $154,271 |
| 2019 | 1,363 | $148,546 | 1,595 | $153,684 |
| 2018 | 1,280 | $144,623 | 1,530 | $150,159 |
| 2017 | 1,201 | $145,607 | 1,496 | $148,005 |
| 2016 | 1,192 | $144,405 | 1,440 | $143,194 |
| 2015 | 1,046 | $142,632 | 1,400 | $139,168 |
| 2014 | 1,022 | $139,019 | 1,279 | $136,994 |
| 2013 | 946 | $135,553 | 1,246 | $136,210 |
| 2012 | 892 | $133,485 | 1,047 | $129,308 |
| 2011 | 790 | $128,075 | 1,023 | $127,645 |
| 2010 | 756 | $125,206 | 967 | $126,911 |
| 2009 | 704 | $123,186 | 861 | $125,466 |
| 2008 | 548 | $119,637 | 685 | $118,823 |
| 2007 | 489 | $118,593 | 627 | $119,297 |
| 2006 | 393 | $116,299 | 650 | $123,727 |
| 2005 | 324 | $114,150 | 369 | $113,153 |
| 2004 | 276 | $110,542 | 341 | $112,404 |
| 2003 | 263 | $111,826 | 303 | $113,834 |
| 2002 | 76 | $111,901 | 260 | $112,565 |
| 2001 | 80 | $112,433 | 207 | $112,783 |
| 2000 | 66 | $110,433 | 148 | $110,600 |
| 1999 | 71 | $106,238 | 155 | $109,136 |
| 1998 | 30 | $106,492 | 126 | $108,154 |
| 1997 | 29 | $105,637 | 107 | $106,980 |
| 1996 | 17 | $111,128 | 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.