Legal Secretary Salary Canada
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 employment 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:
According to the latest figures, the highest hourly average wages are earned in Calgary, Alberta at $22.94 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Saint John, New Brunswick at $14 per hour.
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 $1229.26 in February 2011, an increase of 5.9% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1161.04. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $34.15.
Average Hourly Wages for
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 $22.94 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Saint John, New Brunswick at $14 per hour.
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 $1229.26 in February 2011, an increase of 5.9% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1161.04. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $34.15.
Average Hourly Wages for
Legal Secretaries in Canada
| Location | Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta | 15.14 | 22.94 | 31.17 | 2010 |
| Edmonton - Alberta | 14.50 | 20.95 | 31.42 | 2010 |
| 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 | 2009 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia | 11.35 | 16.90 | 23.75 | 2010 |
| Toronto - Ontario | 13.00 | 20.89 | 28.36 | 2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario | 12.00 | 18.95 | 27.35 | 2009 |
| 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 |
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