Quebec’s minimum hourly wage will rise to $14.25 on May 1

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Tipped employees will see their minimum wage increase from $10.80 to $11.40.

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Lia Levesque

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January 14, 2022 • 14 minutes ago • 1 minute read • join the conversation

Quebec Minister of Labor Jean Boulet spoke at Relaunch MTL in Montreal on September 8, 2020.
Quebec Labor Minister Jean Boulet. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette Archives

The minimum hourly wage in Quebec will increase from $13.50 to $14.25 on May 1, Quebec Labor Minister Jean Boulet announced Friday.

The increase will affect 301,000 workers, 166,000 of them women, who work in areas such as retail and restaurants.

Tipped employees will see their minimum hourly wage increase from $10.80 to $11.40.

Boulet said the goal of the increase is for the minimum wage to be 50 percent of the average hourly wage paid in Quebec, which is estimated at $28.47.

The minister said he had tried to strike a balance between encouraging Quebeckers to take a job and not enticing them to drop out of school.

For years, Quebec’s major unions have called for the minimum wage to be increased to $15, and recently increased that demand to $18 an hour.

Ontario’s minimum hourly wage was set at $15 on January 1.

Reference-montrealgazette.com

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