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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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.
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.
Since December 2012, Alberta has seen the largest discrepancy in the country between increases to worker wages and increases to the cost of living.
These employees have received raises after years of wage freezes.
Alberta saw 13 CEOs make the top 100 list, compared to just 11 in 2020. And most of them were in the energy sector.
Single parent families in Alberta saw the lowest increase in wages, compared to similar families in the other provinces.
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.
We were the only province to see how much new hires were offered increase by less than $1 over the last 3 years.
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 […]