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bizaro86 · 01-13-2025, 02:42 PM

I think minimum wage should be indexed to inflation so it isn't a political decision, probably with a catch up for the last few years of higher inflation.

But that's a lot of slant for one article. The other way you could write it would be:

"Alberta still has Canada's highest average wages even with lower cost of living. Other provinces starting to catch up with stronger growth"

There's no particular reason to think that the place with the highest wages should have the highest growth in wages. In fact the opposite arguably makes sense because employers will try and hire elsewhere and workers will move here, and both of those shift the balance of supply-demand. Without significant oil and gas capex Alberta won't have the best wage growth, and the regulatory climate isn't conducive to spending billions on a 30 year project.

01-13-2025, 02:42 PM	#22904
bizaro86 Franchise Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Exp:	I think minimum wage should be indexed to inflation so it isn't a political decision, probably with a catch up for the last few years of higher inflation. But that's a lot of slant for one article. The other way you could write it would be: "Alberta still has Canada's highest average wages even with lower cost of living. Other provinces starting to catch up with stronger growth" There's no particular reason to think that the place with the highest wages should have the highest growth in wages. In fact the opposite arguably makes sense because employers will try and hire elsewhere and workers will move here, and both of those shift the balance of supply-demand. Without significant oil and gas capex Alberta won't have the best wage growth, and the regulatory climate isn't conducive to spending billions on a 30 year project.