The 2025 Sunshine List is out

By Gazette Staff

March 27th, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

The Ontario government released the salaries of Ontario Public Service and broader public sector employees who were paid $100,000 or more in 2025.

There are 908 organizations in Ontario that do not have any employees earning more than $100,000.

There is a reason for calling the civil servant salary listing the Sunshine List. It was created by the Mike Harris government in 2006 and is read by every municipal employee in the province. 

There are thousands in the province that are paying that kind of money – the dollars that come out of your pocket.

What used to be called the Sunshine list is a phrase the province didn’t use in its media release.

The Gazette will need a day or two to download the data and format it to make it readable.

People can go to the list where the data is searchable.

Link to that location is HERE.

The Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996 requires organizations that receive public funding from the Province of Ontario to make public, by March 31 each year, the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $100,000 or more in the previous calendar year.

Over 50 per cent of this year’s growth was driven by municipalities, which includes local police and fire services whose work continues to protect Ontario communities. Of the total list, more than half is comprised of public service organizations like school boards, hospitals and public boards of health, which in large part is comprised of nurses and teachers.