Tag: employment

Alberta was the only province to see median hourly wages for part-time workers decline since May 2025.

Our unemployment rate also increased.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They were all men, and all in the private sector.