Alberta’s minimum wage will rise to $9.75 per hour from $9.40 on Sept. 1, an increase of 35 cents per hour.
The provincial government made the announcement today, noting the increase is based on a new formula that links possible increases to an average of the annual increases in the Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) report and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Alberta.
“In the past year, AWE rose 4.56 percent in Alberta while the CPI rose 2.44 percent. The average of 3.5 percent equates to a suggested increase of 33 cents per hour. For simpler calculations the increase has been rounded up to 35 cents per hour,” said the news release.
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The minimum wage for liquor servers, at $9.05 per hour, will not be changed until the general minimum wage reaches $10.05 per hour, the government said. Then the two rates will increase in tandem but will retain a $1 per hour difference.
Minimum wage in Saskatchewan is now $9.50, in Manitoba $10 and in British Columbia $10.25.
The highest minimum wage in Canada is $11 in Nunavut and the lowest is in Yukon at $9.27. Alberta’s current minimum wage is the second lowest, although the province said in the news release that after the Sept. 1 increase, it will be the second highest in Canada after taxes.
