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Income statistics by census metropolitan area (CMA) are published: every 5 years for households (data from the Census of Population) annually for economic families, for select CMAs (data from the Canadian Income Survey) annually for census families (data from the T1 Family File) The income concept for this article is total income. [4]
The 2020 Canadian Income Survey (CIS) released in March 2022 by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) said that there was a substantial decrease in the poverty rate from 14.5% in 2015 to 6.4% in 2020. This represents the largest 5-year decrease since 1976. [9]
By 2000, the United States had established a US$8,000 lead over Canada. The situation deteriorated further after a 2014-15 shock in oil prices, with Canadian per-capita real GDP growing at just 0.4% annually, compared to the 1.4% average of surveyed advanced economies. [7]
To be eligible for the CWB, the applicant or their spouse must be a Canadian resident for income tax purposes of at least 19 years of age as of December 31, and cannot be a full-time student. [9] [10] The WITB can be claimed on line 453 (45300 since the 2019 tax year [11]) of the income tax return if their income exceeds $3,000 for the calendar ...
This calculation effectively allows seven years to be dropped from the benefit calculation (for an individual who begins contributing at age 18 and ends at age 65). In October 2018, the average monthly benefits for a new retirement pension (taken at age 65) was just over $664.00 per month, and the maximum amount in 2019 was $1,154.58 per month.
In 2013, 50% of minimum wage workers were between the ages of 15 and 19; in 1997, it was 36%. 50.2% of workers in this age group were paid minimum wage in 2013, an increase from 31.5% in 1997. Statistics Canada notes that "youth, women and persons with a low level of education were the groups most likely to be paid at minimum wage."
In Ontario's Basic Income Pilot Project had a budget of $150,000,000, [16] the 4,000 participants received up to $16,989 per year for a single person, less 50% of any earned income; or up to $24,027 per year for a couple, less 50% of any earned income, [17] in monthly installments.
Based on the OECD average in this 2018 report, it takes an estimated 4 generations for a low-income family in Canada to earn the Canadian average income; the OECD average is an estimated 4.5 generations and in the United States it takes 5 generations or 150 years to earn the American average income.