Ontario’s minimum wage will increase next month to become the second-highest of all the Canadian provinces, Doug Ford's government says.
The minimum wage will boost to $17.20 an hour on Oct. 1, up 3.9 per cent from the current rate of $16.55 per hour, the province said. Under theThe government said a worker making the general minimum wage and working 40 hours per week would see an annual pay increase of roughly $1,355. It added 935,600 workers were earning at or below $17.20 per hour in 2023.
When the new wage kicks in, the government said Ontario’s new minimum wage rate will be the second highest of the provinces, behindThe Ontario Living Wage Network, a coalition of employers, employees, non-profits and researchers, said in 2023 that at a minimum, a living wage in southwest Ontario was $18.65 per hour. That figure varies across the province, with the highest living wage being in the Greater Toronto Area at $25.05 an hour.
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