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While researching data for my recent story on labour productivity in Lethbridge, I came across a dataset regarding wages in Alberta. I found some of it interesting and thought I’d share some of it with you.

First, did you know that the average compensation in Alberta is $40.60?

That’s nearly 3 times the minimum wage. And while that does seem to be a good thing, let’s remember that 1 in 8 Albertans made minimum wage or less as of last year. And 1 in 7 made $16/hour or less.

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In 2015, average compensation in Alberta was $41.43 and $41.24 the year before. It dropped to $38.83 in 2016, following the recession, and has yet to fully recover. Given the economic fallout of the oil price crash and the pandemic, there’s a pretty good chance it won’t fully recover this year either.
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Last year, Alberta’s average compensation per hour was the highest of all the Canadian provinces.



The 2015–2016 recession really took a chunk out of the wages in Alberta, while the other provinces came out relatively unscathed. They either all appear to have been unaffected by the recession or they full recovered from it.

This has allowed the next highest compensated provinces—Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Québec—to start to close the gap with Alberta.

How close did you come to the Province average last year?