In 2021, median employment income in Quebec saw an increase it hadn’t seen in at least 20 years.
In a portrait of employment income in the RCMs of Quebec published Thursday, the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) thus indicates that the median employment income in 2021 for workers aged 25 to 64 has jumped. 9%, “an unprecedented increase since these data have been compiled”, since 2002. More precisely, the median salary then reached $49,788.
And that was before the year 2022, when wages particularly climbed.
It is the youngest and the oldest who have benefited the most. Thus, workers aged 25 to 34 and those aged 55 to 64 experienced growth in their employment income of more than 10% that year.
And men benefited more than women. Quebecers saw their employment income grow by 9.3% in 2021; Quebec women 8.6%.
In an interview, Marie-Hélène Provençal, co-author of the study and project manager at the ISQ, points out, however, that “the situation has changed a lot in 2022” and even before, because of the pandemic which had upset the economy and employment.
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