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2023 Minimum Wage Rates Across Canada

Minimum Wage Rates Across Canada, as of May 1, 2023

FEDERAL

General Minimum Wage: $16.65 per hour or minimum wage of province of employment, whichever is higher

Separate Minimum Wages: None

Scheduled Increases: Annual CPI increases every April 1

ALBERTA

General Minimum Wage: $15.00 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages:

  • Students ages 13-17 for work done during school breaks or first 28 hours per week of work done while not on break: $13 per hour; additional hours per week beyond 28 hours: $15 per hour
  • Salespersons: $598 per week
  • Domestics: $2,848 per month

Scheduled Increases: None

BRISTISH COLUMBIA

General Minimum Wage: $15.65 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages:

  • Liquor Servers: $15.65 per hour
  • Live-in home support workers: $116.68 per day or part day worked
  • Live-in Camp Leaders: $125.06 per day or part day worked
  • Resident Caretakers of apt. buildings with 9 to 60 suites: $937.82 per month + $37.58 per suite
  • Resident Caretakers of apt. buildings with >60 suites: $3,194.43 per month
  • Alternate Piece Rates for Harvest Workers: Depends on crop

Scheduled Increases: June 1, 2023 minimum wage increases to $16.75

MANITOBA

General Minimum Wage: $14.15 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages: None (Security Guard minimum wage eliminated in Oct. 2022)

Scheduled Increases:

  • October 1, 2023: $1.15 increase to $15.30
  • After 2023: Regular increases indexed for inflation every April 1

NEW BRUNSWICK

General Minimum Wage: $14.75 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages: Alternate rates for construction workers, camp leaders and workers whose hours can’t be verified
Scheduled Increases:

  • Annual CPI adjustments every April 1

NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR

General Minimum Wage: $14.50 per hour

Separate Minimum Wages: None
Scheduled Increases:

  • October 1, 2023: 50 cent increase to $15.00 per hour
  • April 1, 2024, and every year after that: Annual increase indexed for inflation rounded up to nearest nickel

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES

General Minimum Wage: $15.20 per hour

Separate Minimum Wages: None
Scheduled Increases:

  • Annual CPI adjustment on September of every year, starting Sept. 1, 2023

NOVA SCOTIA

General Minimum Wage: $14.50 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages:

  • Alternate rates for logging, forestry, construction workers
  • Separate minimum wage for inexperienced workers eliminated

Scheduled Increases:

  • October 1, 2023: 50 cent increase to $15.00
  • Every April 1 thereafter: CPI rounded to nearest nickel

NUNAVUT

General Minimum Wage: $16.00 per hour

Separate Minimum Wages: None

Scheduled Increases:

  • Reviewed every April 1 but increases not required

ONTARIO

General Minimum Wage: $15.50 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages:

  • Students under 18: $14.60 per hour
  • Liquor servers: Eliminated—now receive general minimum wage
  • Hunting & fishing guides: $77.60 per day (< 5 consecutive hours in a day)
  • Hunting & fishing guides: $155.25 per day (5 or more hours in a day, whether or not consecutive)
  • Homeworkers: $17.05 per hour

Scheduled Increases:

  • Annual CPI adjustments every October 1

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

General Minimum Wage: $14.50 per hour

Separate Minimum Wages: None
Scheduled Increases:

  • October 1, 2023: 50 cent increase to $15.00 per hour
  • April 1, 2024, and every April 1 after that: Annual inflation increase

QUEBEC

General Minimum Wage: $15.25 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages:

  • Tip earners: $12.20 per hour
  • Raspberry pickers: $4.53 per kg
  • Strawberry pickers: $1.21 per kg

Scheduled Increases:

  • Annual adjustments every May 1

SASKATCHEWAN

General Minimum Wage: $13.00 per hour

Separate Minimum Wages: None

Scheduled Increases:

  • October 1, 2023: $1.00 increase to $14.00 per hour
  • October 1, 2024: $1.00 increase to $15.00 per hour
  • October 1, 2025, and every October 1 after that: Annual inflation increase

YUKON

General Minimum Wage: $16.77 per hour
Separate Minimum Wages:

  • $38.90 per hour for Category A Classworkers
  • $34.87 per hour for Category B Classworkers
  • $30.93 per hour for Category C Classworkers
  • $28.07 per hour for Category D Classworkers

Scheduled Increases:

  • Annual CPI adjustments every April 1