Legal Secretary Salary Canada

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Average Canadian Legal Secretary’s Salary — Legal Secretaries’ Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Legal Secretaries.

The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this role is 1242.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: legal secretary, commercial law secretary, corporate law secretary and legal stenographer.

The pay information below has been split into rough bands as follows:

›› Low pay: The bottom 10 percent of workers earn this.
›› High pay: The top 10 percent of workers earn this.
›› Average pay: The average wage in this sector after removing the bottom 10 percent and the top 10 percent of workers. Average pay is then calculated on the remaining 80 percent of workers’ wages.

According to the latest figures, the highest hourly average wages are earned in Calgary, Alberta at $29.18 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Saint John, New Brunswick at $14 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $37,000 – $52,000.

The largest sector of employment for legal secretaries is professional, scientific and technical services. The average weekly earnings for the professional, scientific and technical services sector as a whole were $1237.65 in 2012, an increase of 0.3% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for 2012 are $34.78.

Average Hourly Wages for Legal Secretaries in Canada

Location Low Wage
$ per hr		 Average Wage
$ per hr		 High Wage
$ per hr		 Year
Calgary – Alberta* 26.03 29.18 32.05 2011
Edmonton – Alberta* 25.28 26.37 29.33 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest – British Columbia 13.60 19.61 27.00 2008/9
Winnipeg – Manitoba – – – –
Saint John / Sussex / St. Stephen – New Brunswick 10.00 14.00 17.00 2010
Halifax – Nova Scotia 11.35 16.90 23.75 2010
Toronto – Ontario 13.00 20.89 28.36 2010
Ottawa – Ontario 12.75 19.31 27.22 2010
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford – Ontario 13.00 19.57 24.75 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph – Ontario 14.00 17.61 22.52 2010
Prince Edward Island 15.85 18.50 21.15 2010
Montreal – Quebec 11.50 15.00 19.50 2007
Saskatoon and Rural West – Saskatchewan 12.50 18.55 24.28 2006


* 5th percentile, median, 95th percentile bands used.