The average offered hourly wage across Canada is $18.95, according to Statistic Canada’s latest survey on job vacancies and wages. The Northwest Territories has the highest average offered hourly wage, at $25.35, while Prince Edward Island has the lowest, at $14.15.
The survey, a quarterly review that collects information from all business locations in Canada, found that British Columbia has the highest job vacancy rate, at 2.8 per cent, while Quebec has the lowest job vacancy rate, at 1.6 per cent.
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According to Statistics Canada, it did not find a correlation between average offered hourly wage and job vacancy rate, with some provinces, such as the Northwest Territories offering more than the average hourly wage while still having a high job vacancy rate of 2.6 per cent. Newfoundland and Labrador, which had a two-per-cent job vacancy rate, offers an average hourly wage of $18.55.
The survey found that nearly two-thirds of job vacancies in Canada were for full-time work, with the highest rate across Canada – 79.1 per cent – in the Northwest Territories. The lowest rates were in Newfoundland and Labrador (56 per cent) and Saskatchewan (59.4 per cent).
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Additionally, Statistics Canada found that by occupation, sales and service positions had the highest number of vacancies at 142,600 – or 40.4 per cent of all vacancies nationally.
The survey noted some significant variation across sub-provincial areas, such as the average offered hourly wage in Saskatchewan, which ranged from $16.80 in the Swift Current-Moose Jaw region to $26.50 in the Northern economic region.
See the full study is here.
