St. Catharines Fire pay grid
170-member bargaining unit of St. Catharines Fire Services suppression and fire prevention personnel, excluding the Director of Fire Services/Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chief, Office Administrator, Administrative Coordinator, and Administrative staff.
What this step buys
An estimate, not an approval. Send it over and we will confirm it against your own stubs.
Ask Jeff and EmilyThis agreement expires within the year. The rates above keep applying past the expiry date while a new agreement is bargained, and any increase is normally backdated. If your file closes around then, it is worth flagging.
Arbitration award, Interest arbitration award (Arbitrator Brian Sheehan, issued July 28, 2025), 'Awarded Terms' item 3 'Salaries - the salary for a First-Class Firefighter will increase to...', page 10. Award states 'All other classifications are to be adjusted by the same percentage increase' but does not print dollar figures for other classes, so only First-Class Firefighter is reported. Retrieved from the Ontario provincial collective agreement library (filed under folder '2025').. Open the source. Base pay only. Premiums, overtime and paid duty are not in this table. Confirm against your own stub before relying on it.
Increases already negotiated
How first-class firefighter pay moves across the rest of this agreement. These are printed in the schedule, not a forecast.
Already have a mortgage
Rate and balance are on your renewal letter or your online banking. We will read the rest of it with you.
Have us check itWhat a lender does with this
Base pay off the grid is the easy part. On a frontline file the rest of the T4 is where approvals are won or lost.
Where this sits
Mudrick Mortgages, BRX Mortgage Inc.
Newmarket, Ontario. Serving Ontario.
Buying or renewing in Ontario?
Book a call, or send us your grid and we will come back with the number.