Legal Counsel Salary in Ontario (2025)
3,544 disclosed records, 1996–2025 · mostly Crown Agencies (31%)
Records filed simply as “Legal Counsel”, without a level or specialty. For level-specific figures see Senior Legal Counsel.
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
292
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$142,655
+16.7% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$123,545–$162,442
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$326,508
Median by Year
2005–2025
Median salary paid among disclosed records. 2023 is absent: job titles were not disclosed that year. Years with fewer than five people are omitted.
Where They Work
2025 · employers with 5+
| Employer | People | Median | Top |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario Securities Commission | 30 | $133,045 | $169,089 |
| Ontario Infrastructure and Lands Corporation (infrastructure Ontario) | 15 | $145,779 | $157,884 |
| City of Mississauga | 14 | $169,809 | $190,751 |
| Children's Aid Society of Toronto | 13 | $149,240 | $149,890 |
| Hospital for Sick Children | 11 | $141,379 | $150,773 |
| Information and Privacy Commissioner | 10 | $277,756 | $302,434 |
| City of Ottawa | 10 | $148,855 | $169,089 |
| City of Vaughan | 9 | $182,756 | $188,274 |
| University of Toronto | 9 | $180,738 | $206,791 |
| Attorney General | 8 | $251,456 | $326,508 |
| Regional Municipality of Peel | 7 | $162,619 | $202,082 |
| Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | 6 | $141,587 | $158,644 |
| Legal Aid Ontario | 6 | $137,478 | $154,117 |
| Children's Aid Society of London and Middlesex | 6 | $126,784 | $127,362 |
| Children's Aid Society of the Niagara Region | 6 | $121,437 | $121,438 |
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew Biderman | Attorney General | Legal Counsel | $326,508 | $326,834 |
| 2 | Lisa Stein | Ontario Financing Authority | Legal Counsel | $326,501 | $326,827 |
| 3 | Mindy Noble | Tribunals Ontario | Legal Counsel | $306,715 | $306,715 |
| 4 | William Challis | Information And Privacy Commissioner | Legal Counsel / Avocat | $302,434 | $302,799 |
| 5 | Sheila Ritson-Bennett | Attorney General | Legal Counsel | $294,470 | $294,470 |
| 6 | Andrew Ahonen | Attorney General | Legal Counsel | $284,917 | $284,917 |
| 7 | Brendan Gray | Information And Privacy Commissioner | Legal Counsel / Avocat | $282,740 | $283,075 |
| 8 | Dara Lambie | Information And Privacy Commissioner | Legal Counsel / Avocate | $282,740 | $283,075 |
| 9 | Jenna Rucas | Attorney General | Legal Counsel | $282,681 | $282,980 |
| 10 | Linda Chen | Information And Privacy Commissioner | Legal Counsel / Avocate | $277,756 | $278,091 |
By Year
Related Positions
About these figures
Source: Ontario’s Public Sector Salary Disclosure (the “Sunshine List”), which names every public-sector employee paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year. Figures are disclosed salaries, not market compensation: anyone in this position earning under $100,000 does not appear, so medians here sit above the true median for the job.
Medians and percentiles use salary paid (benefits excluded), computed over records whose filed job title was normalized into this position. Titles are as each employer filed them; spellings, word order and bilingual forms are merged. Employers and years with fewer than five people show counts only. 2023: job titles were not disclosed, so that year has no position data. Titles before 2005 were abbreviated at source; the chart starts at 2005.
Data through 2025. Last updated 2026-09-06.