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Hourly wage in health care: Canadian provinces ranked (2025)

Measure: Average hourly wage in health care and social assistance ($). All 10 provinces and territories with data in Average hourly wages by industry by province, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0064-01. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Contains information licensed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence (Open Government Licence – Canada).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 34.81 (Canada).

Lowest: 31.89 to 32.36 $
Group 2: 32.36 to 32.57 $
Group 3: 32.57 to 34.39 $
Group 4: 34.39 to 35.93 $
Highest: 35.93 to 38.24 $

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Labour Force Survey annual averages for the ten provinces; usual hourly wages of employees at their main job.


1	British Columbia	38.24
2	Ontario	35.93
3	Alberta	35.5
4	Nova Scotia	34.39
5	Prince Edward Island	33.86
6	New Brunswick	32.57
7	Saskatchewan	32.42
8	Newfoundland and Labrador	32.36
9	Quebec	32.16
10	Manitoba	31.89

Source: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0064-01: Employee wages by industry, annual. Reference period: 2025.

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Canadian provinces and territories ranked by average hourly wage in health care and social assistance ($) (2025). Data: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0064-01; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/ca-provinces-by-average-hourly-wage-in-health-care-and-social-assistance/

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