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Median hourly wage · ages 25–54 · 2025 dollars
Canada excluding territories · annual · 2025 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. Calculated as nominal median hourly wage × annual all-items Canada CPI for 2025 ÷ annual CPI for the same wage year. The 2025 CPI is 164.2 on a 2002=100 reference base. Each year uses its annual average, with no monthly substitution. The common CPI is not a youth-specific living-cost or housing-affordability index. Matched annual CPI values: 2015: 126.6; 2016: 128.4; 2017: 130.4; 2018: 133.4; 2019: 136.0; 2020: 137.0; 2021: 141.6; 2022: 151.2; 2023: 157.1; 2024: 160.9; 2025: 164.2.
Countability page snapshot: 2026-11-11. Countability CPI adjustment from issuer hourly wages at cent precision and annual CPI at one decimal; extra calculated decimals do not add source precision.
Published Countability table. Adapted from Statistics Canada — Employee wages by industry, annual (14-10-0064-01); Statistics Canada — Consumer Price Index, annual average, not seasonally adjusted (18-10-0005-01); 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.
Statistics Canada — Consumer Price Index, annual average, not seasonally adjusted. Input captured: 2026-10-04. Table release: 2026-01-19.
Archived table metadata captured with the data; not a per-observation revision date.
| Reference period | Value (2025 Canadian dollars per hour) |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 32.42496050552923 |
| 2016 | 31.970404984423677 |
| 2017 | 31.7319018404908 |
| 2018 | 31.990689655172414 |
| 2019 | 32.50194117647059 |
| 2020 | 34.57788321167883 |
| 2021 | 33.628531073446325 |
| 2022 | 32.69882275132275 |
| 2023 | 33.4462126034373 |
| 2024 | 34.01358607830951 |
| 2025 | 34.77 |