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The Ontario Sunshine List - Public Sector Salary Disclosure

The names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of public sector employees paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year.

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25
years of data
2,831,625
employee records of 25 years (since 2001)
377,666
employees in 2025
2,291
employers in 2025
31%
paid raised in 2025
$50.28
billion paid in 2025
OntarioSunshineList.ca processes and presents data on public sector employees from the Ontario Sunshine List, introduced in 1996. The website uses publicly available data from the Government of Ontario, supplemented with additional files to ensure completeness. Specific algorithms clean and standardize the data, with manual checks for accuracy. Year-over-year salary increases, average and median salaries, and employee gender are calculated and presented. The information is categorized by Years, Sectors, Job Titles, Employers, and Employees, allowing users to explore over 6,000 employers, 100,000 unique position titles, and half a million employees from the past 25 years through searchable tables and charts.

25 Years

Years # of Sectors # of Employees
2025 18 404,922
2024 19 377,666
2023 19 300,570
2022 17 266,903
2021 17 244,456
2020 18 205,855
2019 17 167,098
2018 17 151,375
2017 18 131,909
2016 17 124,445
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Popular Job Titles in 2025

Top 10 Highest Paying Employers in 2025

Employers # of Employees Total Paid
Ontario Power Generation 10,346 $1,798,932,290
Toronto District School Board 14,069 $1,784,702,460
City of Toronto 13,078 $1,783,418,883
University of Toronto 7,392 $1,278,231,545
Ontario Provincial Police 7,684 $1,212,501,561
City of Toronto - Toronto Transit Commission 9,614 $1,180,247,184
City of Toronto - Police Service 7,080 $1,066,903,589
Peel District School Board 8,451 $1,034,954,217
York Region District School Board 6,562 $786,701,231
Solicitor General 5,958 $783,631,452
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