Minimum wage rate in Canada

Governments in provinces across Canada make sure that people living in their provinces live a respectable as well as comfortable life. In order to safeguard workers’ rights, provincial governments across Canada have designed a minimum wage structure. According to this plan, no employer can legally pay an employee, lower than the government prescribed minimum wage. The minimum wages are also mentioned as hourly pay.

The minimum wage rate across Canada is different for different provinces. All the provinces plan the minimum rate based on several factors, such as cost of living, environmental conditions, etc. Also, all the provinces have their own timelines to revise the pay rates, so some provinces may do it annually, while other might do it randomly.

Minimum wage rate structure guarantees that when someone works at a particular location or province, so no employer can pay them less than the minimum wage. The pay rate keeps on changing as per growing prices in Canadian markets.

Provincial Governments decide what rate to give to their workers in their province.

As of end of 2020 and starting of 2021, the province of Nunavut pays the highest rate of $16 per hour and the province of Saskatchewan pays lowest rate of $11.45 per hour. However, low pay rate does not mean that people save less money and neither do highest pay rate means that people earn more money.

For example, if Saskatchewan has a low pay rate then it is possible that cost of living and day to day expenses might be low over there, so even with a lower pay rate people might save more over there.

Province wise Map

The province wise pay rate map is given below for your reference. (The map has been taken from Retail council of Canada website )

More details about updated pay rates can be have at this link