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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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24
years of data
2,831,625
employee records of 24 years (since 2001)
377,666
employees in 2024
2,291
employers in 2024
31%
paid raised in 2024
$50.28
billion paid in 2024
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 24 years through searchable tables and charts.

24 Years

Years # of Sectors # of Employees
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
2015 18 115,920
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Popular Job Titles in 2024

Top 10 Highest Paying Employers in 2024

Employers # of Employees Total Paid
Toronto District School Board 14,032 $1,744,852,167
Ontario Power Generation 10,007 $1,715,852,880
City of Toronto 10,256 $1,362,973,280
Peel District School Board 9,004 $1,177,152,529
University of Toronto 6,872 $1,128,059,155
York Region District School Board 7,314 $946,014,220
City of Toronto - Police Service 6,114 $882,558,510
City of Toronto - Toronto Transit Commission 6,842 $824,014,452
Solicitor General 6,319 $803,807,291
Ontario Provincial Police 5,825 $791,533,548
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