Minimum wage for Ontario workers goes to $11.60 as of Oct. 1

Yorkregion.com
March 24, 2017
By Tim Kelly

Ontario is boosting its annual minimum wage for workers to $11.60 per hour from $11.40 effective Oct. 1.

It marks the fourth annual minimum wage increase for full-time workers since the province announced annual increases would be implemented starting in 2014.

The government said it has raised full-time minimum wage incomes by $2,782 per year over the past four years.

The general minimum wage has jumped from $6.85 in 2004 and was frozen from 1996-2003.

Minimum wage annual increases are tied to Ontario's Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of inflation in legislation that was passed in 2014. They are announced for Oct. 1 annually by April 1 each year.