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Old 03-21-2016, 11:15 PM   #403
RougeUnderoos
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Originally Posted by Locke View Post
But it isnt 'a dollar or two an hour' its $5.

To put it into perspective at 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year this is an extra $10,000 per year per employee, they assume theres about 400,000 minimum wage earners in Alberta.

Yup. Couple 'o bucks here and there right?
I'm sure that's just a typo, but just over 2% of the workforce in Alberta make minimum wage (or they did at this time last year), which is about 50,000 people.

https://work.alberta.ca/documents/al...ge-profile.pdf
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