Staff Lawyer Salary in Ontario (2025)
457 disclosed records, 2001–2025 · mostly Crown Agencies (94%)
At a Glance
2025
Disclosed
40
2025 Sunshine List
Median Salary
$135,051
+10.5% vs provincial median
Typical Range
$117,522–$147,521
25th–75th percentile
Top Salary
$154,117
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Aid Ontario | 32 | $138,051 | $154,117 |
| Nishnawbe-aski Legal Services Corporation | 5 | $117,275 | $150,867 |
Highest Paid
2025
| # | Name | Employer | Title as filed | Salary | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria Boger Mull | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocate salariée | $154,117 | $154,479 |
| 2 | Kathryn Gamble Lerchner | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocate salariée | $154,117 | $154,479 |
| 3 | Heather Gillespie | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocate salariée | $154,117 | $154,479 |
| 4 | Nina Hall | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocate salariée | $154,117 | $154,479 |
| 5 | Reide Kaiser | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocat salarié | $154,117 | $154,479 |
| 6 | Trevor Leech | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocat salarié | $154,117 | $154,479 |
| 7 | Paula Mcgirr | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocate salariée | $154,117 | $154,479 |
| 8 | Annemarie Roodal | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocate salariée | $154,117 | $154,479 |
| 9 | Joan Rothwell | Legal Aid Ontario | Staff Lawyer/Avocate salariée | $154,117 | $154,234 |
| 10 | Romyn Kevin | Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services Corporation | Staff Lawyer | $150,867 | $152,586 |
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 2026-09-04.