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Under the [[Constitution of Canada|Constitution]] of [[Canada]], the responsibility for enacting and enforcing [[labour law]]s including '''minimum wages in Canada''' rests with the ten [[Provinces of Canada|provinces]]. The three [[Territories of Canada|territories]] also having been granted this power by virtue of federal legislation. This means that each province and territory has its own minimum wage. The lowest general minimum wages in force currently is that of [[British Columbia]] and [[New Brunswick]] ([[Canadian dollar|$]]8.00/hour) and the highest is that of [[Nunavut]] ($10.00/hour). Some provinces allow lower wages to be paid to [[liquor]] servers and other [[tip]] earners, and/or to inexperienced employees. [[British Columbia]] allows employers to pay as little as $6/hour to new workers with less than 500 hours of work experience (about three months of full-time employment, six months half-time, or one year quarter-time). For those in the Yukon, the minimum wage rate applies to employees who are 17 years of age or over.
Under the [[Constitution of Canada]], the responsibility for enacting and enforcing [[labour law]]s, including the [[minimum wage]], rests primarily with the ten [[Provinces of Canada]]. The three [[Territories of Canada]] have a similar power, delegated to them by federal legislation. Some provinces allow lower wages to be paid to liquor servers and other gratuity earners or to inexperienced employees.


The [[Government of Canada|federal government]] in years past has set its own minimum wage rates for workers in [[Canadian federalism|federal jurisdiction]] industries ([[railway]]s for example). In 1996, however, the [[Canada Labour Code#Part 3: Standard Hours, Wages, Vacations and Holidays|federal minimum wage]] was re-defined to be the general adult minimum wage rate of the province or territory where the work is performed. This means, for example, that a railway company could not legally pay a worker in British Columbia less than $8.00/hour regardless of the worker's experience.
The [[Government of Canada]] has the constitutional authority to set minimum wages only for employees within [[Canadian federalism|federal jurisdiction]], such as federal public servants and workers in industries that are under federal regulatory jurisdiction, such as banks, airlines and interprovincial railways. The federal government earlier set its own minimum wage rates for workers under its jurisdiction. In 1996, however, the [[Canada Labour Code#Part 3: Employment Standards Act|federal minimum wage]] was re-defined to be the general adult minimum wage rate of the province or territory where the work is performed. Following the [[2021 Canadian federal budget|2021 budget]], the Government of Canada reestablished a federal minimum wage for federally regulated industries on December 29, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/2021/12/federal-minimum-wage-to-rise-to-15-per-hour-on-december-29.html | title=Federal minimum wage to rise to $15 per hour on December 29 | date=December 17, 2021}}</ref>


==Demographics==
This '''list of minimum wages in Canada''' collects the [[minimum wage]]s in [[Canadian dollar]]s (CAD) set by each [[Provinces and territories of Canada|province and territory]] of Canada. Assuming a 40-hour work week for 4.34 weeks a month, the monthly gross incomes of individuals earning the lowest and highest minimum wages in Canada are $1345 and $1519, respectively. Based on current exchange rates, Canadian minimum wages in every jurisdiction are comparable to the U.S. federal minimum wage rate of [[United States dollar|$]]6.55/hour (although BC's "training" wage is almost always below this level depending on exchange); however, critics of current minimum wage levels in Canada often claim that they are insufficient and advocate that they be raised to what they claim to be the [[living wage]]. The national [[New Democratic Party]] had called for a separate federal minimum wage of $10/hour (higher than any current provincial minimum),<ref>[http://www.ndp.ca/page/4995 NDP | Ordinary Canadians want a $10 federal minimum wage<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> although as mentioned above, such a change could not be enforced on any employer operating under provincial jurisdiction (unless the province voluntarily agreed to harmonize its own minimum wage).


In 2013, 50% of minimum wage workers were between the ages of 15 and 19; in 1997, it was 36%. 50.2% of workers in this age group were paid minimum wage in 2013, an increase from 31.5% in 1997. Statistics Canada notes that "youth, women and persons with a low level of education were the groups most likely to be paid at minimum wage."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Galarneau|first1=Diane|last2=Fecteau|first2=Eric|title=The ups and downs of minimum wage|date=June 5, 2014|url=http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-006-x/2014001/article/14035-eng.htm#a7|publisher=Statistics Canada|access-date=July 17, 2014}}</ref>
The following table is a list of hourly minimum wages for adult workers in Canada. The provinces which have their minimum wages in ''italics'' allow for lower wages under circumstances which are described under the "Comments" heading.


According to one study, in 2019, 62% of people on minimum wage in Quebec worked part time, and 61% were aged 15 to 24.<ref>{{cite web|last=Suburban|first=Joel Goldenberg The|title=Quebec right to avoid significant minimum wage hike: MEI|url=https://www.thesuburban.com/news/city_news/quebec-right-to-avoid-significant-minimum-wage-hike-mei/article_b58318d6-1cc8-516d-aac5-0ffffa4fafb9.html|access-date=2022-02-11|website=The Suburban Newspaper|date=January 26, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
''Note: The following table can be sorted alphabetically or numerically using the [[File:Sort none.gif]] icon.''

{| class="wikitable sortable"
== Minimum wage levels by jurisdiction ==
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! Jurisdiction || Wage (CAD) || Since ||class="unsortable"| Comments
Assuming a 40-hour workweek and 52 paid weeks per year, the annual gross employment income of an individual earning the minimum wage in Canada is between C$31,200 (in Alberta and Saskatchewan) and C$39,520 (in Nunavut).<ref name="minwage">{{cite web|url=https://minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca/en/general.html|title=Current and Forthcoming General Minimum Wage Rates in Canada|publisher=canada.ca}}</ref>

The following table lists the hourly minimum wages for adult workers in each [[Provinces and territories of Canada|province and territory]] of Canada. The provinces which have their minimum wages in '''bold''' allow for lower wages under circumstances which are described under the "Comments" heading.

''Note: The following table can be sorted by Jurisdiction, Wage, or Effective date using the [[File:Sort both.gif]] icon.''
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! | Jurisdiction
| [[Alberta]] || align=center | 8.80 || [[April 1]], [[2009]] || Will be adjusted annually every April.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/06/15/min-wage.html Wage will be adjusted annually]</ref><ref>[http://employment.alberta.ca/cps/rde/xchg/hre/hs.xsl/998.html Alberta's Minimum Wage]</ref>
! | Wage (C$/h) <ref name="minwage"/>
! style="width:100px;"| Effective date
! class="unsortable"|Comments
! class="unsortable"|Indexation Formula
("CPI" refers to Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index — All-items)
|-
|-
| [[Canada|Federal]] || align=center | 17.30
| [[British Columbia]] || align=center | ''8.00'' || [[November 1]], [[2001]] || This wage applies only once a person has worked for more than 500 hours with one or more employers; the "First Job/Entry Level" minimum wage is $6.00/hour.
|| April 1, 2024
|| For workers under federal jurisdiction only. The provincial or territorial minimum wage applies if it is higher.
|| Each April 1, based on Canada CPI for the previous calendar year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/L-2/page-25.html|title=Canada Labour Code|website=laws-lois.justice.gc.ca|date=July 9, 2023 }}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Alberta]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alberta.ca/minimum-wage.aspx|title=Minimum wage|publisher=alberta.ca|access-date=February 7, 2020}}</ref> || align=center | '''15.00'''
| [[Manitoba]] || align=center | 8.75 || [[May 1]], [[2009]] || Increasing to $9.00 from 1 October 2009. Workers involved in Construction have a minimum wage starting at $12.60. <ref>[http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/regs/2008/056.pdf Construction Industry Minimum Wage Regulation, amendment]</ref>
|| October 1, 2018
||
* [[Student]]s under age 18 (working during a school break, summer holidays, or 28 hours or less per week while school is in session): $13.00
||
|-
|-
| [[British Columbia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/employment-standards-advice/employment-standards/wages/minimum-wage|title=Minimum wage - Province of British Columbia|date=June 1, 2024|website=www2.gov.bc.ca}}</ref> || align=center | 17.40
| [[New Brunswick]] || align=center | 8.00 || [[April 15]], [[2009]] || Increasing to $8.25 on 1 September 2009. <ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/01/21/nb-minimum-wage.html?ref=rss N.B. plans 2 increases to 'embarrassing' minimum wage]</ref>
|| June 1, 2024
||
|| Each June 1 (started in 2022{{efn|Indexation officially started in 2024. However, the actual increases in 2022 and 2023 correspond to applying the indexation formula.}}), based on British Columbia CPI for the previous calendar year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leg.bc.ca/content/data%20-%20ldp/Pages/42nd5th/1st_read/gov02-1.htm|title=BILL 2 – 2024: EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS AMENDMENT ACT, 2024|website=leg.bc.ca}}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Manitoba]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/labour/standards/index.html|title=Employment Standards - Employment Standards|website=gov.mb.ca}}</ref> || align=center | 15.80
| [[Newfoundland and Labrador]] || align=center | 9.00 || [[July 1]], [[2009]] || Increasing to $9.50 on January 2, 2010 and $10.00 on July 1, 2010.<ref>[http://www.crfa.ca/news/2008/minimum_wage_to_rise_in_newfoundland_and_labrador.asp NFL rate increases]</ref>
|| October 1, 2024
||
* Workers in the construction industry (industrial, commercial, institutional, or heavy construction sectors): rates based on occupational classification
|| Each October 1, based on Manitoba CPI for the previous calendar year, unless the government decrees a freeze due to economic conditions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/e110.php?lang=en#7|title=C.C.S.M. c. E110|website=gov.mb.ca}}</ref> There were additional increases of $1.15 on October 1, 2022,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/regs/current/_pdf-regs.php?reg=115/2022|title=Minimum Wage Additional Adjustment Regulation|website=gov.mb.ca}}</ref> and $0.65 on April 1, 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/e110.php?lang=en#6(3)|title=C.C.S.M. c. E110|website=gov.mb.ca}}</ref>
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| [[Northwest Territories]] || align=center | 8.25 || [[December 28]], [[2003]] ||
| [[New Brunswick]] || align=center | 15.30
|| April 1, 2024
||
|| Each April 1, based on New Brunswick CPI for the previous calendar year. The minimum wage was lifted to $12.75 on April 1, 2022, and there was an additional increase of $1.00 on October 1, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://laws.gnb.ca/en/showfulldoc/cr/2022-15//20221012|title=Minimum Wage Employment Standards Act|website=gnb.ca}}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Newfoundland and Labrador]] || align=center | 15.60
| [[Nova Scotia]] || align=center | ''8.60'' || [[April 1]], [[2009]] || $8.10 for inexperienced workers (less than three months employed in the type of work they are hired to do).<ref>[http://www.crfa.ca/news/2008/nova_scotia_minimum_wage_to_rise_in_may.asp CRFA - News - Nova Scotia minimum wage to rise May 1<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> This is the first of three increases in the minimum wage over the next year and a half. By the fall of 2010, the minimum wage will be $9.65 an hour.<ref>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/04/01/ns-minimum-wage.html</ref>
|| April 1, 2024
||
|| Each April 1 (resumed in 2024), based on Canada CPI for the previous calendar year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assembly.nl.ca/Legislation/sr/regulations/rc960781.htm#8_|title=CNLR 781/96 - Labour Standards Regulations under the Labour Standards Act|website=www.assembly.nl.ca}}</ref> There were additional increases of $0.50 on October 1, 2020, $0.25 on April 1, 2021, $0.25 on October 1, 2021,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2020/aesl/0221n01/|title=Provincial Government Announces Increases to Minimum Wage|date=February 21, 2020|website=www.gov.nl.ca}}</ref> $0.50 on October 1, 2022 and $0.50 on October 1, 2023. On April 1, 2023, the minimum wage was increased by $0.80 in lieu of indexation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2022/ecc/0526n05/|title=Provincial Government Releases Minimum Wage Review Committee Report}}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Nunavut]] || align=center | 10.00 || [[September 5]], [[2008]] || The highest in Canada.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/09/02/minimum-wage.html Nunavut gets top minimum wage in Canada]</ref>
| [[Northwest Territories]] || align=center | 16.70<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.nt.ca/en/newsroom/gnwt-announces-increase-minimum-wage-releases-survey-results|title=GNWT announces increase to minimum wage, releases survey results|website=gov.nt.ca}}</ref>
|| September 1, 2024

||
|| Each September 1 (started in 2023), based on the changes in the Yellowknife CPI and in the average hourly wage in the Northwest Territories as measured by Statistics Canada for the previous calendar year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ece.gov.nt.ca/en/services/employment-standards/minimum-wage|title=Minimum Wage - Education, Culture and Employment|website=ece.gov.nt.ca}}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Ontario]] || align=center | ''9.50'' || [[March 31]], [[2009]]
| [[Nova Scotia]] || align=center | 15.20
|| April 1, 2024
|| * Will increase by $0.75 per hour to reach $10.25 on [[March 31]], [[2010]].<ref>[http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/news/2009/09-33.html Ontario Minimum Wage Increases<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|| Expected indexation based on formula: $15.70 on April 1, 2025
* [[Student]]s (those under age 18 working under 28 hours per week during the school year [September to June]) is $8.90
|| Each April 1, based on Canada CPI for January through November of the previous calendar year plus, starting in 2023, 1%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://novascotia.ca/just/regulations/regs/lscmwgen.htm|title=Minimum Wage Order (General) - Labour Standards Code (Nova Scotia)|website=novascotia.ca}}</ref>{{efn|The additional 1% officially started in 2024. However, the ad hoc increases in October 2022 and April 2023 combined for the same increase as applying the new formula in 2023.}} In 2019 and 2021, an extra $0.30 was added before applying indexation. In 2020, the minimum wage was increased by $1.00 in lieu of indexation. There were early increases of $0.25 on October 1, 2022 and $0.50 on October 1, 2023.
** Will be $9.60 on March 31, 2010
* [[hospitality industry|Liquor server]]s $8.25.
** Will be $8.90 on March 31, 2010
* [[Homeworker]]s (includes students and overrides the student wage) $10.45
** Will be $11.28 on March 31, 2010<ref>[http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=ae88093f-4253-4930-90be-c39792d48061 Ont. minimum wage to rise]</ref>
|-
|-
| [[Nunavut]] || align=center | 19.00
| [[Prince Edward Island]] || align=center | 8.20 || [[June 1]], [[2009]] || Increasing to $8.40 on 1 October 2009.<ref>http://www.gov.pe.ca/cca/index.php3?number=49717&lang=E</ref>
|| January 1, 2024
||
||
|-
|-
| [[Ontario]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/minimum-wage | title=Minimum wage}}</ref> || align=center | '''17.20'''
| [[Quebec]] || align=center | ''9.00'' || [[May 1]], [[2009]] || Workers receiving [[tip|gratuities]] receive $8.00.<ref>[http://www.cnt.gouv.qc.ca/salaire-paie-et-travail/salaire/index.html#c4642 Quebec rates]</ref>
|| October 1, 2024
||
* [[Student]]s under age 18 (working during a school break, summer holidays, or 28 hours or less per week while school is in session): $16.20
* [[Remote work|Homeworker]]s (employees who do paid work in their own homes - includes students and supersedes the student wage): $18.90
|| Each October 1 (resumed in 2020), based on Ontario CPI for the previous calendar year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/00e41|title=Employment Standards Act, 2000, S.O. 2000, c. 41|date=January 1, 2019|website=ontario.ca}}</ref> There was an additional increase of $0.65 on January 1, 2022.
|-
|-
| [[Prince Edward Island]] || align=center | 16.00
| [[Saskatchewan]] || align=center | 9.25 || [[May 1]], [[2009]] ||[http://www.labour.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=2a7ee6fc-36aa-4dcb-8d65-7d1d9d93eb20 Minimum Wage Increase Announced - Advanced Education, Employment and Labour - Government of Saskatchewan<!-- Bot generated title -->]
|| October 1, 2024
||
||
|-
|-
| [[Québec]]<ref name="cnt.gouv.qc.ca">{{cite web|url=https://www.cnesst.gouv.qc.ca/en/working-conditions/wage-and-pay/wages/wages-employees-receiving-tips|title=Wages - Employees receiving tips - CNESST|website=www.cnesst.gouv.qc.ca}}</ref> || align=center | '''15.75'''
| [[Yukon]] || align=center | 8.89 || [[April 1]], [[2009]] || Yukon is currently the only jurisdiction in Canada to peg annual increases (every April 1st) in its minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/economy/min_wage.html CBC News In Depth: Economy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.community.gov.yk.ca/labour/minwage.html Minimum Wage and Minimum Wage Regulation - Department of Community Services- Government of Yukon<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
|| May 1, 2024
||
* Workers receiving [[tip (gratuity)|gratuities]]: $12.60
||
|-
| [[Saskatchewan]] || align=center | 15.00
|| October 1, 2024
||
|| Each October 1 (resuming in 2025), based on the average of the changes in the Saskatchewan CPI and in the average hourly wage in Saskatchewan as measured by Statistics Canada for the previous calendar year, subject to Cabinet approval.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publications.gov.sk.ca/freelaw/documents/English/Regulations/Regulations/S15-1R3.pdf|title=The Minimum Wage Regulations, 2014|website=gov.sk.ca}}</ref> The minimum wage was lifted to $13.00 on October 1, 2022, and there were increases of $1.00 in lieu of indexation in 2023 and 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2022/may/03/saskatchewan-minimum-wage-to-receive-market-adjustment|title=Minimum Wage Will Increase to $13 Per Hour This Year, $15 by 2024|website=saskatchewan.ca}}</ref>
|-
| [[Yukon]] || align=center | 17.59
|| April 1, 2024
||
|| Each April 1, based on Whitehorse CPI for the previous calendar year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://laws.yukon.ca/cms/images/LEGISLATION/SUBORDINATE/2021/2021-0103/2021-0103_1.pdf|title=Order-in-Council 2021/103, Employment Standards Act|date=2021-07-28|access-date=2021-08-01|website=laws.yukon.ca}}</ref> In 2019, an extra $0.90 was added before applying indexation. In 2020, an extra $0.75 was added after applying indexation. In 2021, an extra $1.35 was added on August 1.
|}
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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Minimum wage]]
* [[List of minimum wages by country]]


==Notes==
*[[Minimum wage]]
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*[[List of U.S. minimum wages]]
*[[List of minimum wages by country]]

==External links==
* Government of B.C., Ministry of Labour and Citizens' Services, Employment Standards, [http://www.labour.gov.bc.ca/esb/facshts/min-wage.htm Minimum Wage Fact Sheet]
*[http://canadaonline.about.com/library/bl/blminwage.htm Minimum Wages in Canada]
* {{cite book |author=Murray, Stuart; Mackenzie, Hugh |month=March |year=2007 |chapter=Appendix: Nominal and real minimum wage data for all provinces, 1968–2005 |pages=47–9 |title=Bringing minimum wages above the poverty line |location=Ottawa |publisher=[[Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives]] |isbn=978-0-88627-531-0 |url=http://www.growinggap.ca/files/Bringing%20Minimum%20Wages%20Above%20Poverty%20Line.pdf}}


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
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Under the Constitution of Canada, the responsibility for enacting and enforcing labour laws, including the minimum wage, rests primarily with the ten Provinces of Canada. The three Territories of Canada have a similar power, delegated to them by federal legislation. Some provinces allow lower wages to be paid to liquor servers and other gratuity earners or to inexperienced employees.

The Government of Canada has the constitutional authority to set minimum wages only for employees within federal jurisdiction, such as federal public servants and workers in industries that are under federal regulatory jurisdiction, such as banks, airlines and interprovincial railways. The federal government earlier set its own minimum wage rates for workers under its jurisdiction. In 1996, however, the federal minimum wage was re-defined to be the general adult minimum wage rate of the province or territory where the work is performed. Following the 2021 budget, the Government of Canada reestablished a federal minimum wage for federally regulated industries on December 29, 2021.[1]

Demographics

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In 2013, 50% of minimum wage workers were between the ages of 15 and 19; in 1997, it was 36%. 50.2% of workers in this age group were paid minimum wage in 2013, an increase from 31.5% in 1997. Statistics Canada notes that "youth, women and persons with a low level of education were the groups most likely to be paid at minimum wage."[2]

According to one study, in 2019, 62% of people on minimum wage in Quebec worked part time, and 61% were aged 15 to 24.[3]

Minimum wage levels by jurisdiction

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Assuming a 40-hour workweek and 52 paid weeks per year, the annual gross employment income of an individual earning the minimum wage in Canada is between C$31,200 (in Alberta and Saskatchewan) and C$39,520 (in Nunavut).[4]

The following table lists the hourly minimum wages for adult workers in each province and territory of Canada. The provinces which have their minimum wages in bold allow for lower wages under circumstances which are described under the "Comments" heading.

Note: The following table can be sorted by Jurisdiction, Wage, or Effective date using the icon.

Jurisdiction Wage (C$/h) [4] Effective date Comments Indexation Formula

("CPI" refers to Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index — All-items)

Federal 17.30 April 1, 2024 For workers under federal jurisdiction only. The provincial or territorial minimum wage applies if it is higher. Each April 1, based on Canada CPI for the previous calendar year.[5]
Alberta[6] 15.00 October 1, 2018
  • Students under age 18 (working during a school break, summer holidays, or 28 hours or less per week while school is in session): $13.00
British Columbia[7] 17.40 June 1, 2024 Each June 1 (started in 2022[a]), based on British Columbia CPI for the previous calendar year.[8]
Manitoba[9] 15.80 October 1, 2024
  • Workers in the construction industry (industrial, commercial, institutional, or heavy construction sectors): rates based on occupational classification
 Each October 1, based on Manitoba CPI for the previous calendar year, unless the government decrees a freeze due to economic conditions.[10] There were additional increases of $1.15 on October 1, 2022,[11] and $0.65 on April 1, 2023.[12]
New Brunswick 15.30 April 1, 2024 Each April 1, based on New Brunswick CPI for the previous calendar year. The minimum wage was lifted to $12.75 on April 1, 2022, and there was an additional increase of $1.00 on October 1, 2022.[13]
Newfoundland and Labrador 15.60 April 1, 2024 Each April 1 (resumed in 2024), based on Canada CPI for the previous calendar year.[14] There were additional increases of $0.50 on October 1, 2020, $0.25 on April 1, 2021, $0.25 on October 1, 2021,[15] $0.50 on October 1, 2022 and $0.50 on October 1, 2023. On April 1, 2023, the minimum wage was increased by $0.80 in lieu of indexation.[16]
Northwest Territories 16.70[17] September 1, 2024 Each September 1 (started in 2023), based on the changes in the Yellowknife CPI and in the average hourly wage in the Northwest Territories as measured by Statistics Canada for the previous calendar year.[18]
Nova Scotia 15.20 April 1, 2024 Expected indexation based on formula: $15.70 on April 1, 2025 Each April 1, based on Canada CPI for January through November of the previous calendar year plus, starting in 2023, 1%.[19][b] In 2019 and 2021, an extra $0.30 was added before applying indexation. In 2020, the minimum wage was increased by $1.00 in lieu of indexation. There were early increases of $0.25 on October 1, 2022 and $0.50 on October 1, 2023.
Nunavut 19.00 January 1, 2024
Ontario[20] 17.20 October 1, 2024
  • Students under age 18 (working during a school break, summer holidays, or 28 hours or less per week while school is in session): $16.20
  • Homeworkers (employees who do paid work in their own homes - includes students and supersedes the student wage): $18.90
 Each October 1 (resumed in 2020), based on Ontario CPI for the previous calendar year.[21] There was an additional increase of $0.65 on January 1, 2022.
Prince Edward Island 16.00 October 1, 2024
Québec[22] 15.75 May 1, 2024
Saskatchewan 15.00 October 1, 2024 Each October 1 (resuming in 2025), based on the average of the changes in the Saskatchewan CPI and in the average hourly wage in Saskatchewan as measured by Statistics Canada for the previous calendar year, subject to Cabinet approval.[23] The minimum wage was lifted to $13.00 on October 1, 2022, and there were increases of $1.00 in lieu of indexation in 2023 and 2024.[24]
Yukon 17.59 April 1, 2024 Each April 1, based on Whitehorse CPI for the previous calendar year.[25] In 2019, an extra $0.90 was added before applying indexation. In 2020, an extra $0.75 was added after applying indexation. In 2021, an extra $1.35 was added on August 1.

See also

[edit]

Notes

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  1. ^ Indexation officially started in 2024. However, the actual increases in 2022 and 2023 correspond to applying the indexation formula.
  2. ^ The additional 1% officially started in 2024. However, the ad hoc increases in October 2022 and April 2023 combined for the same increase as applying the new formula in 2023.

References

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  1. ^ "Federal minimum wage to rise to $15 per hour on December 29". December 17, 2021.
  2. ^ Galarneau, Diane; Fecteau, Eric (June 5, 2014). "The ups and downs of minimum wage". Statistics Canada. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
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