This section covers what people in Canada earn and how pay works: income across the population, what each profession pays, where an income ranks, converting and calculating pay, negotiating it, and earning on the side. Each part below has its own hub with every guide in it.
Average and median income
The average income in Canada was $59,400 and the median $44,400 in 2024, before tax, counting everyone aged 15 and over, from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey. The average income hub breaks those figures down by province, city, age and household, and explains why the median is usually the better guide to a typical income.
Individual income for Canada and every province, with links to each province and city.
Employee earnings by province, age and education.
Household income by province and family type.
The middle household income in Canada and each province.
Major metro areas compared side by side.
The current minimum wage in each province and territory, and the federal rate.
Salaries by profession
The salary by profession hub has one guide per occupation, built on Job Bank wages (low, median and high for each province) and 2021 Census employment income, from health care and law to the skilled trades and public service.
Every profession guide, with wage tables comparing them side by side.
Teacher salary grids by province.
Accountant wages and the CPA path.
Lawyer wages, Census income and federal pay scales.
Engineering wages by discipline.
Wages across the skilled trades.
Income percentiles
A percentile shows what share of people earn less than a given income. On tax returns for 2023, 14.8% of people with income had $100,000 or more. The income percentile hub has the cut-offs for Canada, each province and territory, and large cities, and the income percentile calculator ranks a single income.
Where an income ranks in Canada, by province or age group.
Percentile tables for every province, territory and large city.
Combined household income for couples and families.
Each salary level placed in the distribution, and what decides whether it is enough.
Pay calculators
The income calculators hub has converters between hourly and annual pay, per-paycheque calculators for each pay schedule, and province-by-province hourly converters; for pay after tax, CPP and EI, see the salary after tax calculator. The federal minimum wage, for federally regulated jobs, is $18.15 an hour from April 1, 2026; each province’s rate is on the minimum wage page.
Hourly to salary or salary to hourly, with every pay period.
Gross pay on each of the year's biweekly paycheques.
CPP, EI and income tax: what comes off each paycheque.
Ontario's converter with take-home pay; the hub lists BC, Alberta and Quebec.
Salary negotiation
The salary negotiation hub takes one situation per guide: answering a job offer, asking for a raise, deciding on an employer’s counter-offer after you resign, and the parts of the package around the salary, such as a signing bonus, benefits and remote work.
Researching your market rate, setting your numbers, and scripts.
Building the case, timing and the conversation.
Valuing benefits, pension and bonus alongside base pay.
Salary ranges in job postings, province by province.
Side hustles
The side hustles hub compares ways of earning beside a main income, from delivery and rideshare apps to freelancing, selling online and renting out space, and explains how that income is taxed, including when you have to register for the GST/HST.
Options compared by cost, skills and tax.
Rideshare, delivery and task apps and their requirements.
Setting up, getting paid and handling taxes.
What each option pays and how it is taxed.
How income is taxed
Employment, self-employment, investment, rental and benefit income are each reported and taxed differently. How income works in Canada sets them side by side, and the taxes section covers tax brackets and take-home pay by province.
Where the figures come from
The figures in this section come from public sources rather than salary surveys:
- Canadian Income Survey: Statistics Canada’s annual income survey, used for average and median income by person and family.
- Tax returns: Statistics Canada’s tax-filer tables, used for the income percentiles and the share of people at each income level.
- Census of Population: the 2021 Census, used for household income and for employment income by occupation.
- Job Bank: wages by occupation and province from Employment and Social Development Canada, used for the profession guides.
Other topics
- Personal finance: budgeting, cost of living and workplace rights
- Taxes: income tax, deductions, benefits and the CRA
- Investing guides: TFSA, RRSP, FHSA, ETFs and brokers
- Retirement: CPP, OAS, pensions and retirement income
- Debt: payoff strategies, personal loans and student loans
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Sources
The figures and rules on this page come from these sources, last checked against them between September 30, 2026 and October 4, 2026. How we check facts.
- Government of Canada: Current and Forthcoming General Minimum Wage Rates in Canada
- Statistics Canada: Distribution of market, total and after-tax income of individuals, Canada, provincesโฆ
- Statistics Canada: Market income, government transfers, total income, income tax and after-tax income byโฆ
- Statistics Canada: Tax filers and dependants with income by total income, sex and age