Registered Nurse. When it comes to the most-needed jobs in Canada, nursing may very well top the list. …
Truck Driver. …
College or Vocational Instructor. …
Business Management Consultant. …
Welder. …
Licensed Practical Nurse. …
Occupational or Physiotherapy Assistant. …
Software Engineer or Designer.
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Under the Canadian Constitution, the responsibility for enacting and enforcing labour laws, including the minimum wage, rests with the ten provinces as well as the three territories which have been granted this power by federal legislation. Some provinces allow lower wages to be paid to liquor servers and other gratuity earners or to inexperienced employees.
The federal government in past years set its own minimum wage rates for workers in federal jurisdiction industries (railways for example). 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.[1] This means, for example, that a railway company could not legally pay a worker in British Columbia less than C$13.85 per hour regardless of the worker’s experience.
Demographics Edit
In 2013, 39.8% 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]
Minimum wage levels by jurisdiction Edit
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$23,545.60 (in Saskatchewan) and C$31,200 (in Alberta).[1]
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 Sort both.gif icon.
