Alberta was the only province to see median hourly wages for part-time workers decline since May 2025.
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Alberta median wages declined in May 2026
Tag: economy
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Profit does not create jobs. Workers do.
Someone recently told me that profit creates jobs. This is a myth.
Our unemployment rate also increased.
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AB full-time wages fell in Mar 2026
The median hourly wage for full-time wages in Alberta is now in third place, behind BC and Ontario. In January, we were ahead of everyone.
It was over 25,000 if you count just the men.
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Alberta had worst unionization rate in 2025
This shouldn’t surprise anyone though. It’s been like this for at least a decade.
We also went from having the fourth highest unemployment to the sixth highest.
We also went from having the sixth highest unemployment to the fourth highest.
It also had the highest increase in food bank usage in the last year and in the last 6 years.
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AB gained nearly 29,000 jobs in Nov 2025
Most of them were full-time jobs; although full-time jobs, as a percentage of total jobs, are still lower than they were in June 2019.