Alberta hasn’t had the highest wages in the country at any point in 2024 yet.
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AB FT wages dropped $1.84/hr since May 2024
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No new full-time workers were women.
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AB lost over 33,000 FT jobs in May 2024
Alberta’s net loss in full-time and part-time jobs was the largest it has seen since September 2023 and the second largest since April 2020.
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AB has second highest jobless rate in Canada
And the jobs we did get were all part-time jobs.
Nearly 5,000 Alberta women working full-time in February lost their jobs last month.
We went from first place to second place, and now we’re in third place.
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AB lost 9,400 private sector jobs in January
Public sector jobs, however, increased by 11,300.
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AB lost 28,700 full-time jobs in December
The unemployment rate also increased to its highest level in nearly two years.
Even though Alberta has seen a gain of tens of thousands of full-time jobs in each of the last two months, it’s still 7,500 short of August’s levels.
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AB’s avg hourly wage drops to 3rd place
British Columbia wages had been slowly gaining on Alberta throughout 2023, coming within just 2¢ in September. Last month, they were 55¢ higher.