Canada: Average Wage is $821

Canadian average weekly earnings, including overtime, of payroll employees was $821 in February 2009, up 1.8% from February 2008.

In the largest industrial sectors, from February 2008 to February 2009, average weekly earnings were up by 5.6% in retail trade, 2.0% in health care and social assistance, 1.5% in accommodation and food services, 0.7% in educational services and 0.6% in public administration.

During the same period, earnings declined by 4.3% for employees in manufacturing as a whole.

Earnings declined for employees in most of the biggest manufacturing industries, that is, food; transportation equipment; fabricated metal products; machinery; and wood products.

Provincially, the strongest year-over-year earnings growth among the provinces occurred in Alberta (+5.4%), Newfoundland and Labrador (+4.5%) and Saskatchewan (+3.5%).

Canadian Average Weekly Earnings By Province
February 2009

Province	Average Weekly Earnings $ (£)
Newfoundland and Labrador	786 (£443)
Prince Edward Island	681 (£394)
Nova Scotia	728 (£411)
New Brunswick	739 (£417)
Quebec	753 (£425)
Ontario	852 (£481)
Manitoba	775 (£437)
Saskatchewan	808 (£437)
Alberta	974 (£549)
British Columbia	794 (£459)

Canadian Average Weekly Earnings By Industry
February 2009

Industry	Average Weekly Earnings $ (£)
Forestry & logging	853 (£481)
Mining, oil & gas	1646 (£928)
Utilities	1529 (£862)
Construction	1059 (£597)
Manufacturing	928 (£523)
Wholesale trade	1046 (£590)
Retail trade	477 (£269)
Transportation & warehousing	897 (£518)
Information & cultural industries	1117 (£630)
Finance & insurance	1027 (£579)
Real estate, rental & leasing	760 (£429)
Professional, scientific & technical services	1151 (£649)
Management of companies & enterprises	1171 (£660)
Health care & social assistance	754 (£452)
Arts, entertainment & recreation	499 (£281)
Accommodation & food services	334 (£188)
Educational services	839 (£473)
Public administration	1060 (£598)

exchange rate £1 = $1.773
Data from Statistics Canada