08-16-2018, 03:47 PM
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...iles-1.4740923
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A driver for a furnace-cleaning business. An aide at a fertility clinic. A greeter at a laser-tag arena.
These are some current job openings in Alberta that are offering minimum wage: $13.60 per hour.
The successful applicants would join the roughly 133,000 other Albertans being paid the lowest legal rate for hourly work. Together, they represent about seven per cent of employees in this province.
But it wasn't always like this.
Not long ago, minimum-wage work was much more of a rarity. Just 34,000 people — or roughly 1.8 per cent of Alberta employees — earned the legal minimum of $9.75 an hour in 2013.
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There's a stereotype that minimum-wage jobs are typically for teenagers and students in their early 20s who are still living with their parents. But, according to data compiled by Statistics Canada for CBC News, this accounted for only about 31 per cent of people earning minimum wage in Alberta last year.
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