Every year, the Ontario Ministry of Finance releases the names, salaries, and positions of thousands of public sector employees who earn more than $100,000.
The most recent list released earlier this month covers salaries for 2009.
By far, the Ministry of the Attorney General has the most Ontario government employees earning over $100,000. Last year, there were almost 1,600 of them.
Ontario Court Chief Justice Annemarie Bonkalo’s salary for 2007 was $276,561.33 with $4,121.95 in taxable benefits.
As for provincial court judges, the majority of them earned $245,422.45 with $3,659.35 in taxable benefits (regional senior justices earned slightly more). Case management masters typically took home $189,811.44 and $327.03 of benefits, while many justices of the peace earned $115,127.53 with taxable benefits of $190.02.
In the PDF linked below,
Law Times lists, in descending order by salary, the top earners from the Ministry of the Attorney General plus a few others related to the law from other parts of government.
The rest of the Finance Ministry’s salary disclosure list can be found online at
fin.gov.on.ca/en/publications/salarydisclosure/2010.
It includes the provincial judiciary, Crown agencies, universities, municipalities, school boards, and more.
Click
here for a PDF of the list.
For commentary on the sunshine list and government remuneration to its employees, see "
Keep letting the sunshine in" and
"Wage controls and the Ontario budget." For more lists concerning the legal profession, see "
Top 20 law firms of 2010."
