2021 Income Data Released

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Income Explorer, 2021 Census

This interactive chart is comprised of two visualizations to show statistics of selected income sources by various characteristics and geographies.

www12.statcan.gc.ca

Enjoy

 

[48Connor]

Damn they pay good in Alberta and NWT...

Also Oakville my god

 

[Jay Alexander]

Damn they pay good in Alberta and NWT...

Also Oakville my god

Cost of goods in NWT must be crazy high. I feel like possibly Oakville is skewed because they're a very wealthy city, and I'm not sure if people who live there all actually work there. Alberta of course, got that oil

 

[Dimitri]

When they do these it should be readjusted to $/hour.

I know far too many guys in the trades, oil patch etc who brag about making $120,000 a year but are working 60 hour weeks.

Total income is meaningless if you're just a slave to your job.

 

[Mad Mike]

... Oakville is skewed because they're a very wealthy city, and I'm not sure if people who live there all actually work there. ...

Oakville has Lumber Barons.

 

[GreyGhost]

When they do these it should be readjusted to $/hour.

I know far too many guys in the trades, oil patch etc who brag about making $120,000 a year but are working 60 hour weeks.

Total income is meaningless if you're just a slave to your job.

$/hour would be interesting but it is a lot shadier metric. Many salaried people are drastically off of their estimated hours worked. It can go either way. Either they spend time in the evening cleaning up emails and don't mentally include that in the total or they say they work far more than they do as they couldn't ask for continually increasing comp with a straight face if the light was shone on the actual hours worked (cough, many [but not all] public sector jobs). Since the vast majority of people would be guessing the answer to that question, I have doubt that the resulting numbers would have meaning.

Along similar lines, $/hour away from home would be interesting if accurate. FIFO or pilots are away for far more hours than people that work the same number of working hours but return home daily. That could also catch longer commutes in the GTA accounting for some of the additional comp provided.

 

[48Connor]

When they do these it should be readjusted to $/hour.

I know far too many guys in the trades, oil patch etc who brag about making $120,000 a year but are working 60 hour weeks.

Total income is meaningless if you're just a slave to your job.

For sure, lots of boilermakers where I'm at making $200k+, but when you only take off one or two days a month, is it really worth it?

For me at least, I've worked 115hrs less OT so far this year (~3.5hrs/wk). Luckily I got a pretty good raise over the winter so I've actually made more so far this year despite working a lot less.