Salary and step adjustments

The ability to collectively negotiate the terms and conditions of your employment, including your compensation, is an important advantage of being a unionized professional.

When employees negotiate together, they achieve better results and in turn, promote fairness and consistency at work. Collective bargaining of compensation also reduces the wage gap for women and for racialized and young workers.

Your Collective Agreement defines the parameters of your salary in Articles 44, 45, & 50.

Your salary

Your salary is based on your position’s classification as laid out in Appendix A of your Collective Agreement. Each classification has a minimum and maximum, in accordance with a four-year step system. 

Your union may be able to negotiate future increases to your individual salary as a part of collective bargaining with the Employer—this is called an across-the-board increase.

We may also be able to negotiate increases to salary range minimums and maximums as part of the contract.

Your current Collective Agreement

Your 2022–2028 Collective Agreement between AMAPCEO and the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman sets across-the-board increases to both individual salaries and to all salary ranges of:

• 3.6% effective April 1, 2023 (retroactive);
• 3.5% effective April 1, 2024 (retroactive);
• 3.25% effective April 1, 2025
• 2.75% effective April 1, 2026
• 2.75% on October 1, 2027;

See Article 44 (page 66) and Appendix A of your Collective Agreement for details.

Step system increases

In addition to any across-the-board increases negotiated with the Employer, you may also be eligible for annual increases to your salary according to the four-year step system corresponding with your position.

Eligibility

You are eligible for a step system increase if you have not yet reached the salary maximum.  

Each year, your salary will increase according to a four-year step system, as negotiated with the employer, until you reach the salary maximum associated with your position.

If you are at the maximum of your salary range, you are not eligible for step adjustment increases. However, you will continue to receive across-the-board increases as the union negotiates them in future agreements. 

See Appendix A of your Collective Agreement for details.

If you have questions or need assistance

Please contact an AMAPCEO Workplace Representative at the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman, and get in touch by email.

Workplace Representatives are trained union members who have volunteered to confidentially assist members like you in the workplace. They should be your first point of contact in seeking information and representation with an issue at work.