BC Pay Transparency Law Goes into Effect Today
BC Pay Transparency Law Goes into Effect Today
The goal is to help address the pay gap between men and women
This is the best summary I could come up with:
employers must include pay information on public job postings starting Wednesday.
Raji Mangat, executive director of West Coast Leaf, said requiring employers to include wage and salary information on job postings is a first step in B.C.
Since June 2022, Canada’s federally regulated private companies have been required to report the wage gap.
Last year, Prince Edward Island started including salary rates in publicly advertised job postings.
In her statement, Paddon pointed to the government’s other efforts to help women in the workforce, including new investments in child-care supports and increases to the minimum wage.
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While the average hourly wage for men was $35.50 last year, Indigenous women earned an average of $26.74 an hour. Indigenous men earned an average wage of $31.03 an hour. Immigrant women earned an average of $28.78 an hour compared with immigrant men, who earned an average of $36.42 an hour.
In "Freedom" money:
- 35.50 CAD = 25.63 USD
- 26.74 CAD = 19.30 USD
- 31.03 CAD = 22.40 USD
- 28.78 CAD = 20.77 USD
- 36.42 CAD = 26.29 USD
Meanwhile here in the "land of the free" where those conversions are relevant, my hourly isn't even close to that 19.30 USD.
Not that pay equity isn't an issue... but the averages don't account well for geographical cost-of-living... including Vancouver and Victoria, possibly the least affordable places to rent or live. These places are orders of magnitude larger in population than other lower-cost areas in the province such as Prince Rupert or Prince George and where Indigenous people might live (though treaty and traditional lands are all over the place in B.C.).
Keep in mind these averages are across all age groups - I'm assuming that (like me) you're relatively young and still early in your working career where pay is generally lower.
50% of people earn less than the average hourly wage
Actually, because the highly paid people tend to be REALLY highly paid, a LOT more than 50% of people earn less.