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June 25, 2015EMPLOYMENT, EARNINGS AND HOURS, APRIL 2015 Nova Scotians' average weekly earnings (including overtime, seasonally adjusted) increased $10.43 per week (1.3%) from March to $837.95 in April 2015. This is 2.1 per cent above the level in April of last year. Canadians' average weekly wages increased 0.2 per cent from March to $955.37 in April 2015, a 2.5 percent increase over April 2014.
This month, all provinces except Newfoundland and Labrador (-0.3%) showed monthly increases in average weekly wages. On a year-over-year basis, all provinces average wages increased with Quebec growing the most, at 4.5 percent year over year. On a year to date basis, New Brunswick has the highest growth (4.1%), while BC has the lowest (1.9%).
In April 2015, earnings in goods producing industries in Nova Scotia increased 3.9 percent on a month to month basis largely on manufacturing wages, and increased 3.3 percent year-over-year. Service producing industries wages increased 0.7 percent month to month, and increased 1.9 percent compared to April 2014 (all figures are seasonally adjusted).
On a year to date basis, goods industries' wages were up 2.1 per cent over the first four months of 2015 (compared to the first four months of 2014), and services wages were up 2.6 per cent. Overall, the industrial aggregate increased by 2.4 percent.
EMPLOYMENT
In April 2015, Nova Scotia had 398,511 payroll employees, a decrease of 0.4 percent compared to last month, which is 0.2 percent lower than a year ago. Canada had 15.7 million employees, 0.1 per cent higher than last month, and 1.4 percent higher than a year ago.
REFERENCE TABLES
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Employment, Payroll, and Hours. CANSIM Table 281-0063