Median hourly wage · ages 15–24 · 2025 dollars data tables

Canada excluding territories · annual · 2025 Canadian dollars per hour · Annual; not seasonally adjusted

Annual median usual hourly wages at the main job before taxes and other deductions, including tips, commissions and bonuses. Both full-time and part-time employees; self-employed people and the territories are excluded. Age groups describe changing employee populations, not first jobs, entry-level vacancies or the same workers followed through time. Hours, occupation, industry and employee composition can change; this is not a causal wage comparison. Calculated as nominal median hourly wage × annual all-items Canada CPI for 2025 ÷ annual CPI for the same wage year. The 2025 CPI is 164.2 on a 2002=100 reference base. Each year uses its annual average, with no monthly substitution. The common CPI is not a youth-specific living-cost or housing-affordability index. Matched annual CPI values: 2015: 126.6; 2016: 128.4; 2017: 130.4; 2018: 133.4; 2019: 136.0; 2020: 137.0; 2021: 141.6; 2022: 151.2; 2023: 157.1; 2024: 160.9; 2025: 164.2.

Countability page snapshot: 2026-11-11. Countability CPI adjustment from issuer hourly wages at cent precision and annual CPI at one decimal; extra calculated decimals do not add source precision.

Published Countability table. Adapted from Statistics Canada — Employee wages by industry, annual (14-10-0064-01); Statistics Canada — Consumer Price Index, annual average, not seasonally adjusted (18-10-0005-01); reference periods 2015 to 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Statistics Canada — Employee wages by industry, annual. Input captured: 2026-10-05. Table release: 2026-01-09.

Archived table metadata captured with the data; not a per-observation revision date.

Statistics Canada — Consumer Price Index, annual average, not seasonally adjusted. Input captured: 2026-10-04. Table release: 2026-01-19.

Archived table metadata captured with the data; not a per-observation revision date.