Insights

The $100,000 line was set in 1996 and never indexed. Carried forward with inflation it would be $187,755 in 2025, and only 7% of today's list would still qualify.

Also: universities rise from 8% to 33% of an indexed list, and 6 of the 12 most common jobs have lost ground to prices since 2015.

Ontario's 12 largest municipal areas, home to 76% of Ontarians, each counted with every municipal employer, so Toronto, where one city runs everything, compares fairly with Peel, where a region and three municipalities split the work.

Also: 13 benchmark jobs compared across the areas, and 9 leadership roles plotted against the population they serve.

Most public-sector jobs pay about the same anywhere in Ontario; a few pay noticeably more in one region. Each job is compared with itself, so a region full of high-paid specialists doesn't skew the result.

Paid the same everywhere (within 3%): Teacher, Registered Nurse, Firefighter, and more.