Methodology

How the analysis works.

This site starts with published Ontario public-sector salary disclosure rows and adds normalization, aggregation, and transparent role-family classification for public-interest analysis. “Sunshine List” is a common public term, while this site uses “public sector salary disclosure” and “public compensation intelligence” for analytical precision.

For a plain-language overview of the common term, read the Ontario Sunshine List explainer.

1. Source normalization

Disclosure records are standardized around common fields: year, sector, employer, first name, last name, position, salary paid, and taxable benefits.

2. Role-family classification

Job titles are classified into broad role families using transparent keyword rules. This is a heuristic, not an official designation.

3. Inferred place

Ontario disclosure does not consistently provide a work location. The platform infers a place from employer names where possible and marks unresolved cases as not location-specific.

Data caveats

Salary paid and taxable benefits are the disclosed fields. The data can include retroactive payments, partial-year service, overtime, one-time payments, and multiple records for the same person across employers or roles. Median and average values should be interpreted as disclosed-record metrics, not full labour-market compensation statistics.