Not bad work if you can get it:
Inclusive of the 3.2 per cent statutory indexing that kicked in April 1, 2008, puisne trial and appeal judges are now paid $260,000 per annum; chief justices earn $285,000; Supreme Court puisne judges earn $309,300; and the Chief Justice of Canada earns $334,100.
But not "not bad" enough, one supposes:
The judges seek cumulative salary increases of: 3.5 per cent in 2008; and 2 per cent in each of 2009, 2010, and 2011. This is in addition to the yearly statutory indexing they are automatically entitled to under the Judges Act –which boosts their salary in lock step with the prior year’s increase in the industrial aggregate, a measure of workers’ average weekly wages.
The Lawyer's Weekly provides a detailed examination of the ongoing fight between the government and the judiciary over raising judicial salaries, and the rather hallucinatory arguments being made.
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