2024 Federal Government Salary Pay Scale

[BHC1]

The union for federal government lawyers (DOJ, PPSC, CBSA counsel, etc.) negotiated a new national pay scale (the Toronto scale was eliminated).

 

The new national pay rates are:

Articling Student:  $45,089 - $98,438 (top of the scale rising to $102,671 in May 2025)

Junior Counsel:  $89,418 - $123,325 (top of the scale rising to $128,628 in May 2025)

Counsel: $125,006 - $197,877 (top of the scale rising to $206,385 in May 2025)

Senior Counsel: $158,555 - $218,679 (top of the scale rising to $228,083 in May 2025)

General Counsel: $179,918 - $234,556 (top of the scale rising to $244,642 in May 2025)

Senior General Counsel: $197,021 - $241,047 (top of the scale rising to $251,413 in May 2025)

Edited March 9 by BHC1

[Jaggers]

Man, those are generous outside Toronto. 

But how does “articling student” have such a range???

Edited March 9 by Jaggers

[LMP]

Agreed that is it long overdue but agree that the range is odd. Other student positions for the feds typically have a range to account for things like experince (PhD student vs second year undergrad). But how different can articling students really be in that regard? 

[WiseGhost]

That upper range is for me, I'm just that good 😤

Edited March 9 by WiseGhost

[BHC1]

2 hours ago, Jaggers said:

Man, those are generous outside Toronto. 

But how does “articling student” have such a range???

The articling student range reflects that different offices across the country select different parts of the pay scale to offer their students. This allow New Brunswick to give their students $45k (step 1) while offices in NWT give them around $95k (step 15).

Since articling usually isn’t long enough for salary increases, the student will not meaningfully move up on the salary ladder during their tenure.

[tiktok]

the salary for the different offices can be found here: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/abt-apd/recru/sb-pa.html#s2