The annual Sunshine List of Ontario public sector employees who received more than $100,000 in compensation in 2016 featured more than 123,000 names when it was released on March 31. While there have been some calls to increase the salary level that triggers disclosure, Statistics Canada data issued last year shows that $100,000 is still more than the median family income in any Ontario city. The highest median family income for a metropolitan area was $97,760 in Ottawa-Gatineau. Meanwhile, the top one per cent of total average income for tax filers in Canada was $466,700. Of the 123,000 names on the latest Sunshine List, thousands of the individuals are lawyers working in the public sector.
On this chart,
Law Times lists, in descending order by salary, the top 10 earners from the Ministry of the Attorney General as well as law professors and other legal professionals working as counsel, general counsel, solicitors, directors of legal services and in other senior roles among various municipal and provincial bodies and regulators. The list does not include federally appointed judges. The highest level of compensation for someone practising as a lawyer went to Chris Ginther, senior vice president and general counsel at Ontario Power Generation.
Ginther, who earned $531,500 last year, was recently promoted to chief administrative officer of the public agency.
The standard salary for a judge sitting on the Ontario Court of Justice rose to just less than $289,000 last year, which is not far behind the $308,600 salary for judges on the Ontario Superior Court. In the educational sector, law professors at all universities continue to be compensated less than those in the business and medicine faculties. Professors at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, however, still earn much more on average than their colleagues at other law schools.
Seventeen law professors at U of T earned more than the highest-paid professor at any other law school in Ontario. As well, seven professors, including U of T law dean Edward Iacobucci, earned more than Patrick Monahan, deputy attorney general of Ontario, one of the most powerful public sector legal jobs in the country. The rest of the Ministry of Finance’s salary disclosure list is available online at
www.ontario.ca/page/public-sector-salary-disclosure-2016-all-sectors-and-seconded-employees. Law Times
| Deans of Law |
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| Edward Iacobucci |
University of Toronto |
$353,476 |
| W. Iain Scott |
Western |
310,000 |
| Lorne Sossin |
Osgoode (York) |
255,794 |
| Bill Flanagan |
Queen’s |
230,664 |
| Nathalie Des Rosiers |
Ottawa (common)* |
224,216 |
| Celine Levesque |
Ottawa (civil section) |
202,336 |
| Chris Waters |
Windsor |
201,056 |
| Angelique EagleWoman |
Lakehead** |
140,828 |
*Des Rosiers is on leave after winning a
by-election and is now a Liberal MPP. |
|
|
**EagleWoman joined the faculty as
Dean on May 1, 2016 |
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| Law Professors |
|
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| Arthur Ripstein |
University of Toronto |
$320,523 |
| Kent Roach |
University of Toronto |
317,841 |
| Ernest Weinrib |
University of Toronto |
315,543 |
| David Dyzenhaus |
University of Toronto |
313,808 |
| Stephen Toope |
University of Toronto |
310,954 |
| Brian Langille |
University of Toronto |
309,918 |
| Bruce Chapman |
University of Toronto |
296,690 |
| Brenda Cossman |
University of Toronto |
291,705 |
| Albert Yoon |
University of Toronto |
274,707 |
| Stephen Waddams |
University of Toronto |
267,404 |
| General (In House) Counsel |
|
|
|
| Chris Ginther |
SVP Legal/CAO |
Ontario Power Generation |
$531,500 |
| Paul Edmonds |
SVP/General Counsel |
Ontario Pension Board |
425,024 |
| Marni Dicker |
EVP/General Counsel |
Infrastructure Ontario |
350,248 |
| Mary Aldred |
General Counsel |
Ontario Energy Board |
315,723 |
| Lori Sullivan |
General counsel |
Ontario Lottery &Gaming |
299,525 |
| James Sinclair |
General counsel |
OSC |
295,238 |
| Craig Slater |
General Counsel |
AGCO |
276,870 |
| Nora Gillespie |
Senior legal counsel |
University of Toronto |
275,044 |
| John Rattray |
General Counsel |
Independent Electricity System
Operator |
267,762 |
| Julia Shin Doi |
General counsel |
Ryerson |
262,850 |
| Ontario Court of Justice |
|
|
| Lise Maisonneuve |
Chief Justice |
$323,922 |
| John Payne |
Judge |
318,939 |
| Faith Finnestad |
Assoc. Chief Justice |
318,939 |
| Peter Bishop |
Judge (Office of the Chief Judge) |
313,381 |
| Norman Glaude |
Judge |
313,381 |
| Robert Bigelow |
Judge |
312,922 |
| Timothy Culver |
Judge |
312,922 |
| Simon Armstrong |
Reg. Senior justice |
311,465 |
| Sharon Nicklas |
Reg. Senior justice |
311,465 |
| Timothy Lipson |
Reg. Senior Justice |
311,465 |
| Ministry of the Attorney General |
|
|
| Patrick Monahan |
Deputy Attorney General |
$305,603 |
| Peter Rollings |
Asst. Crown attorney |
290,630 |
| Kevin Gowdey |
Crown attorney |
272,056 |
| Lucy Cecchetto |
Senior counsel |
247,175 |
| Mary Humphrey |
Asst. Crown attorney |
238,244 |
| Marilyn Marshall |
Counsel |
237,273 |
| Dennis Brown |
General counsel |
236,408 |
| Roslyn Levine |
Executive officer, Superior Court |
234,944 |
| Michael Waby |
Director, crim. modernization strategy |
229,256 |
| Irwin Glasberg |
Asst. Deputy Attorney General |
228,409 |
| City Solicitors (Municipal legal staff) |
|
|
| Brian Haley |
Toronto (acting city solicitor) |
$229,514 |
| Rick O’Connor |
Ottawa |
224,170 |
| Edward Earle |
Toronto (director, legal services) |
216,266 |
| Patricia Simpson |
Toronto (director, legal services) |
213,751 |
| Mary Ellen Bench |
Mississauga |
209,814 |
| Kalliopi Chapman |
Toronto (director legal services) |
205,175 |
| Joy Hulton |
Regional Solicitor (York) |
204,446 |
| Catherine Conrad |
City solicitor/Markham |
201,146 |
| Wendy Walberg* |
Toronto |
200,899 |
| Kelly Matsumoto |
Toronto (director, legal services) |
195,953 |
*appointed Toronto city solicitor Feb. 2017.
Previously senior city of Toronto lawyer |
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| Legal Aid Ontario |
|
|
| David Field |
President & CEO |
$267,822 |
| Michelle Seguin |
CAO |
194,108 |
| Susan McCaffrey |
VP & general counsel |
194,108 |
| Heather Robertson |
VP (Prov. case management) |
191,624 |
| Janet Budgell |
VP (Southwestern Ontario) |
188,741 |
| Vicki Moretti |
VP (Greater Toronto) |
188,596 |
| Randall Ellsworth |
VP (North/Central) |
188,595 |
| David McKillop |
VP Policy |
188,558 |
| Charles Lafortune |
VP Prov. case management |
173,799 |
| Jawad Kassab |
Executive lead-refugee services |
171,299 |
