Here’s how much money you need to make to live in these Atlantic Canadian provinces
The report says housing and transportation costs pushed living wages higher, with about half of workers in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador earning less.
- On Monday, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Atlantic released a report finding living wage rates increased across Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, updating regional benchmarks for hourly income needed to cover basic annual expenses.
- Rising costs for rent and fuel drove the increases, with the Labrador-Northern Peninsula region reaching $30.50 per hour; this surpassed Halifax's $30 hourly wage for the first time, while Northern Nova Scotia jumped nearly 10 per cent to $28 per hour.
- Data from the report shows about half of workers in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador earn less than the living wage; Nova Scotia's $17 minimum wage creates a nearly $9 gap from the living wage required for basic necessities.
- Christine Saulnier, the CCPA Atlantic director, urged provincial governments to raise minimum wages and expand income supports, stating: "We have some provincial income support programs they phase out just at the poverty line."
- Meanwhile, the Human Development Council pegged the New Brunswick living wage at $24.84 per hour; Julia Woodhall-Melnik, the Canada Research Chair in Resilient Communities, argued the living wage is a more accurate poverty measure than arbitrary definitions.
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About half of workers in N.S. and N.L. earning less than the living wage: report
A report released Monday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is calling on governments in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and P.E.I. to raise their minimum wage rates, which sit well below the living wage calculated for each province.
2026 living wage rates rise in N.L., N.S., and P.E.I., CCPA-ATL finds - NTV: Newfoundland and Labrador's Most Trusted News Source
New living wage rates released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Atlantic for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island show increases across every region, with provincial average increases of just under four per cent in Nova Scotia, to just over seven per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador and just under six […] The post 2026 living wage rates rise in N.L., N.S., and P.E.I., CCPA-ATL finds appeared first …
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