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BC & Ontario bypass Alberta for highest wages

On average, employers in BC are offering the highest wages for new hires. Ontario is right behind them in second place.

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Alberta workers had worst increase in real wages

Although Alberta workers enjoy the highest average wages in the country, they haven’t been keeping up with inflation. And it’s worsened over the last 4 years.

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Alberta bumped from top spot in 2021 & 2022 for worker pay

For a long time, Alberta workers have been able to enjoy higher wages than those in the rest of the country. It seems as though that’s changing.

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Alberta worker wages not keeping up with inflation

Since December 2012, Alberta has seen the largest discrepancy in the country between increases to worker wages and increases to the cost of living.

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Non-union AHS employees getting 3.25% wage increase

These employees have received raises after years of wage freezes.

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Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs were paid $1.4B in 2021

Alberta saw 13 CEOs make the top 100 list, compared to just 11 in 2020. And most of them were in the energy sector.

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Single-income families on the rise in Alberta

Single parent families in Alberta saw the lowest increase in wages, compared to similar families in the other provinces.

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Alberta wage growth among the worst since 2019

Since July 2019, the month when the UCP implemented their so-called Job Creation Tax Cut, Alberta was one of only 2 provinces that saw its average wage increase by less than $100 a week.

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AB job offers see lowest increases in offered pay since 2019

We were the only province to see how much new hires were offered increase by less than $1 over the last 3 years.

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Opinion

Tax cuts don’t create jobs. Higher worker wages creates jobs.

Conservative politicians cut taxes so they can give their rich donors more money. After all, taxes are applied to profits, not revenue, and lower taxes means more profits. But that doesn’t sell well with the public, so they tell us that low taxes creates jobs. Except tax cuts don’t create jobs. Let me explain. Companies […]