N.W.T. minimum wage bumped up 65 cents, to $16.70 per hour
The minimum wage in the Northwest Territories is now $16.70 — a four per cent increase over the previous minimum wage of $16.05.
The change came into effect on Sunday.
Since 2023, the Northwest Territories has adjusted its minimum wage annually each September.
Increases are calculated using a formula based on the consumer price index for Yellowknife (the only N.W.T. community for which Statistics Canada collects inflation data) and the change in the average hourly wage in the territory over the previous year, according to the territorial government’s website.
Minimum hourly wages in Canada range from $14 per hour in Saskatchewan to $19 per hour in Nunavut.
Related links from around the North:
Canada: ‘We aren’t bad people,’ says family living in tent in front of legislature in Arctic Canada, CBC News
Finland: Finland takes thousands off streets by giving homes to homeless, Yle News
Sweden: Cold brings record numbers to Stockholm homeless shelter, Radio Sweden
United States: $1 minimum wage increase to $8.75 takes effect Tuesday in Alaska, Alaska Dispatch News
Russia: Norilsk, Russia -The inescapability of the company town on Russia’s tundra, Blog by Mia Bennett
