Canada: gender pay gap ratio in income by province 2021

Canadian women earned an average of 0.73 Canadian dollars for every dollar earned by men in 2021, slightly under three quarters of the average annual employment income for men. The people among whom this ratio was least unequal were Canadians living in the Prince Edward Island province (0.77). In contrast, women living in Alberta earned on average less than two-thirds of what men earned in the same province.

Average female to male pay ratio in annual employment income in Canada in 2021, by province

Characteristic	Gender pay ratio
Canada	0.73
Prince Edward Island	0.77
Quebec	0.76
Ontario	0.76
New Brunswick	0.75
Manitoba	0.74
Nova Scotia	0.74
British Columbia	0.71
Saskatchewan	0.7
Newfoundland and Labrador	0.7
Alberta	0.64

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May 2023

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Canada

Survey time period

2021

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The source adds the following information: "The average gender pay ratio in employment income is the average annual employment income for females divided by the average annual employment income for males. The gender pay ratio can be interpreted as the proportion of a dollar that women earn for every dollar earned by men. Alternatively, the gender pay ratio can be subtracted from one and then multiplied by 100, such that it represents how much less women earn than men in percentage terms." Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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