Average and Median Income in Edmonton

The median Edmonton household had $84,000 after tax in 2020, $3,000 less than Calgary’s median and $11,000 more than the national one. Below, that figure sits beside Calgary, Alberta and Canada, followed by how Alberta’s capital employs its workers, what its homes cost against local income, and how its job market has moved since 2014. For the wider picture, see the average income in Canada hub, the Alberta income page and, for the province’s other big city, average and median income in Calgary.

Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census income table (98-10-0061-01) for the Edmonton CMA is the source for household income here. Its figures are for the 2020 income year, with 2015 converted to 2020 dollars, and the census remains the latest metro-level household measure. Our Edmonton income percentile page covers what individual earners make.

Edmonton against Calgary, Alberta and Canada

Before tax, Edmonton’s 2020 median was $96,000 and its average $116,800; in 2015 the average had been $131,600. The Canadian Income Survey, which measures economic families and people living alone rather than households, reports a newer median after-tax income for Edmonton of $80,700 in 2024, $4,600 below the Alberta-wide $85,300 on the same basis.

What an Edmonton home costs relative to income

The REALTORS Association of Edmonton put the MLS HPI benchmark for the Greater Edmonton Area, the price of a typical home, at $423,100 in September 2026: about 5.0 years of the 2020 median after-tax household income. Its average sale price that month, which shifts with the mix of homes sold, was $466,080. The census income and the recent price come from different years, so the multiple is only a rough guide; the Edmonton housing market page breaks prices down by property type, and the housing section of our city income comparison lines up other metros the same way.

Edmonton renters paid an average of $1,302 a month for a one-bedroom in a purpose-built building in CMHC’s October 2025 Rental Market Survey, with 3.9% of units vacant (3.1% the year before). Other unit sizes are covered on the Edmonton rental market page.

Where Edmonton’s jobs are

In 2025, according to Labour Force Survey estimates for the Edmonton CMA:

• Construction employed 98,700 people, 11.5% of all jobs, against a 7.1% share across Canadian CMAs combined.
• Public-sector employees numbered 191,600, or 22.3% of everyone employed (21.5% across CMAs), and public administration alone was 7.3% of jobs (6.1%).
• Forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying and oil and gas employed 22,900, 2.7% of jobs (0.8% across CMAs).

Edmonton employment and income, 2014 to 2025

• 2014 to 2016: the unemployment rate went from 5.1% to 7.4%, manufacturing employment from 57,300 to 42,300, and median individual income (all residents 16 and older, the survey’s age floor before 2022, including those with no income, in 2024 dollars) from $54,400 in 2015 to $49,300 in 2016.
• 2017 to 2019: unemployment reached 8.3% in 2017 (Calgary’s 2016 rate was 9.4%) and was 7.3% in 2019. Total employment went from 748,900 to 787,300, and public-sector employment from 148,900 in 2015 to 170,400 in 2019.
• 2020: unemployment averaged 11.8% for the year.
• 2021 to 2025: employment went from 779,000 to 860,100, and the CMA added 219,983 residents between July 2021 and July 2025.

Edmonton workers pay Alberta’s provincial income tax and no provincial sales tax; the tax owed at two sample salaries is set out on our Calgary income page, and the income tax calculator works it out for any salary.

Related tools and resources

• Edmonton housing market: benchmark and average prices by property type
• Edmonton rental market: CMHC rents and vacancy by unit size
• Cost of living in Edmonton: everyday costs beyond housing
• Alberta mortgage rates: current rates from Alberta lenders
• Salary calculator: take-home pay after tax and deductions
• Income percentile calculator: where an income ranks nationally and by province