Inflation

Impact of inflation on the Ontario sunshine list

Since 1996, the $100,000 threshold has not changed. The effect of increasing the threshold is shown below:

  • Canadian consumer price index (CPI) has increased by 84.7% from 1996 to 2025 source
  • In 2025, there were 404,915 records on the sunshine list
  • If the threshold were to follow the CPI, the size of the 2025 list would have been reduced by 93%, to 30,274 records.
  • Put differently, in terms of the purchasing power of a Canadian Dollar buying Canadian goods and services, a $100,000 threshold in 2025 is equivalent to $54,136 in 1996.








The Ontario sunshine list is released annually by the Government of Ontario and is intended to shed light on some of the costs related to public sector employees.

This website makes use of this publicly available information and provides analysis in a format that is accessible to all Ontario citizens with access to the internet.

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