Wages

Hourly wage rate.

This indicator is measured in the Labour Force Survey (LFS).

Survey respondents are asked to report their wage/salary before taxes and other deductions, and include tips, commissions and bonuses. Hourly wages/salaries are calculated in conjunction with usual paid hours per week. Data on hourly wages are available on a monthly and annual basis through the LFS as well as by occupation and industry.

Data are based on employees only, and therefore earnings from self-employed workers are omitted.

For more information on measurement of this indicator in the LFS, please refer to Guide to the Labour Force Survey.

• Labour Force Survey (LFS)
  • Table 14-10-0134-01 – Average weekly earnings, average hourly wage rate and average usual weekly hours by union status, annual
  • Table 14-10-0063-01 – Employee wages by industry, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
  • Table 14-10-0065-01 – Employee wages by job permanency and union coverage, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
  • Table 14-10-0306-01 – Employee wages by occupation, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
  • Table 14-10-0064-01 – Employee wages by industry, annual
  • Table 14-10-0066-01 – Employee wages by job permanency and union coverage, annual
  • Table 14-10-0340-01 – Employee wages by occupation, annual
  • Table 14-10-0370-01 – Average hourly and weekly wages and average usual weekly hours by Indigenous group
  • Table 14-10-0307-01 – Employee wages by occupation, annual, inactive
  • Table 14-10-0061-01 – Labour force survey estimates (LFS), wages of employees by type of work, National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S), sex and age group, unadjusted for seasonality
  • Table 14-10-0062-01 – Labour force survey estimates (LFS), wages of employee by type of work, National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S), sex and age group, annual
  • Table 14-10-0340-02 – Average and median gender wage ratio, annual

• Intersectional perspective on the gender wage gap in Canada, 2007 to 2022 (Statistics Canada - Infographics, September 21, 2023)
• Canada's Official Poverty Dashboard of Indicators: Trends, March 2022 (Statistics Canada – Infographics, March 23, 2022)
• Portrait of youth in Canada: Employment (Statistics Canada – Infographics, July 26, 2021)
• Does pay transparency close the gender wage gap? (Statistics Canada – Infographics, March 6, 2020)
• Labour Market Indicators, by province, territory and economic region, unadjusted for seasonality (Statistics Canada – Data Visualization Products, March 9, 2018)

• Gender Equality Week: Examining the intersectional gender wage gap in Canada (StatsCAN Plus, September 22, 2023)
• Intersectional perspective on the Canadian gender wage gap (Studies on Gender and Intersecting Identities, September 21, 2023)
• Disaggregating wage growth: Trends and considerations (A Presentation Series from Statistics Canada About the Economy, Environment and Society, August 8, 2022)
• Employees with low pay, 1998 to 2021 (Quality of Employment in Canada, May 30, 2022)
• The gender wage gap in Canada: 1998 to 2018 (Labour Statistics: Research Papers, October 7, 2019)
• Changing Characteristics of Canadian Jobs, 1981 to 2018 (Economic Insights, November 30, 2018)
• Fertility rates and labour force participation among women in Quebec and Ontario (Insights on Canadian Society, July 18, 2018)
• Employment Rates and Wages of Core-aged Workers in Canada and the United States, 2000 to 2017 (Economic Insights, June 4, 2018)
• Women and Paid Work (Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report, March 8, 2017)