Nearly a million minimum wage earners in Ontario got a pay bump today.
On Oct. 1, Ontario’s minimum wage, the lowest wage employers are permitted to pay their workers per hour, rose from $15.50 to $16.55, a 6.8 per cent increase.
For a person earning the general minimum wage and working 40 hours a week, that equates to an annual raise of about $2,200.
$16.55 per hour equals about $2,868.00 a month gross, unless my math is way wrong, (not unpossible.)
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