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.
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AB full-time wages fell in Mar 2026
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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.
Also, Alberta dropped to third place for median full-time wages.
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Alberta gained 42,500 jobs in Sep 2025
But they lost nearly 31,000 jobs in July and August, so this is not as large of an increase as it first appears. And most of them were part-time.
There’s a persistent myth in Alberta that minimum wage workers are mostly teenagers. Except, this just isn’t true.