Median hourly wage · ages 25–54 · current dollars data tables
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Median hourly wage · ages 25–54 · current dollars
Canada excluding territories · annual · current Canadian dollars per hour · Annual; not seasonally adjusted
Annual median usual hourly wages at the main job before taxes and other deductions, including tips, commissions and bonuses. Both full-time and part-time employees; self-employed people and the territories are excluded. Age groups describe changing employee populations, not first jobs, entry-level vacancies or the same workers followed through time. Hours, occupation, industry and employee composition can change; this is not a causal wage comparison. Current dollars; no adjustment for changes in purchasing power.
Countability page snapshot: 2026-11-11. Issuer median hourly wages at cent precision; no interpolation or filling.
Published Countability table. Adapted from Statistics Canada — Employee wages by industry, annual (14-10-0064-01); reference periods 2015 to 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Statistics Canada — Employee wages by industry, annual. Input captured: 2026-10-05. Table release: 2026-01-09.
Archived table metadata captured with the data; not a per-observation revision date.
| Reference period | Value (current Canadian dollars per hour) |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 25.0 |
| 2016 | 25.0 |
| 2017 | 25.2 |
| 2018 | 25.99 |
| 2019 | 26.92 |
| 2020 | 28.85 |
| 2021 | 29.0 |
| 2022 | 30.11 |
| 2023 | 32.0 |
| 2024 | 33.33 |
| 2025 | 34.77 |