{"id":20390,"date":"2025-06-28T00:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20390\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T00:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:07:20","slug":"here-are-the-job-sectors-where-canadians-are-earning-the-most-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20390\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the job sectors where Canadians are earning the most right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for well-paying jobs, Statistics Canada has released a report that could give you insight into industries with the best average pay.<\/p>\n<p>The government agency released its April payroll employment, earnings and hours, and job vacancies\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/250626\/dq250626a-eng.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday. It revealed that Canadians earned an average of $1,297.44 per week, a 4.4 per cent increase from last April. On average, workers also earned $9.70 more in April than in March.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s inflation rate in April was up 1.7 per cent year-over-year, indicating that average wages outpaced inflation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/city\/2025\/05\/canada-high-cost-living-inheritance\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">With the high cost of living<\/a>, you may be looking for better-paying jobs in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>StatCan shared\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/250626\/t001a-eng.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a>\u00a0on the average weekly pay in different Canadian sectors, and the findings are eye-opening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jobs canada\" id=\"content-image-118573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1751027813-20250627-jobs-canada-0.jpg\" style=\"width: 1400px; height: 1529px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">StatCan<\/p>\n<p>Workers in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction earned the highest average weekly wage of $2,492.50 in April, followed closely by those working in utilities ($2,090.59) and informational and cultural industries ($1,875.15).<\/p>\n<p>The lowest-earning jobs in Canada include accommodation and food services, with an average weekly wage of $521.16 \u2014 not including tips \u2014\u00a0followed by retail ($735.52) and arts, entertainment,\u00a0and recreation ($759.63).<\/p>\n<p>Employees in informational and cultural industries experienced the largest year-over-year pay bump, with average weekly wages increasing 10 per cent. Those working in utilities saw the lowest average weekly wage increase of -2.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jobs canada\" id=\"content-image-118574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1751027991-20250627-jobs-canada.jpg\" style=\"width: 1400px; height: 597px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">StatCan<\/p>\n<p>StatCan also broke down the average weekly wages in each province. Workers in Nunavut earned the most in April, with an average weekly wage of $1,734.91. However, that may be offset by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogto.com\/eat_drink\/2023\/10\/canada-higher-grocery-prices-toronto\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sky-high food costs<\/a>\u00a0in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia were in the middle of the pack, with average weekly wages of $1,362.04, $1,329.64\u00a0and $1,310.45, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Edward Island experienced the biggest average wage increase of 5.8 per cent from last April, followed by New Brunswick (5.5 per cent) and Quebec (5.4 per cent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re looking for well-paying jobs, Statistics Canada has released a report that could give you insight into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2147,746,420,2150,159,8790,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-20390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-ontario","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114758080749252312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}