Buy Canadian, Buy Living Wage
Letter to the Premier
Last week, we sent a letter to Premier Eby and some of his cabinet, urging them to incorporate Living Wage provisions into new procurement directives.
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Statement - Vancouver School Board
"We're incredibly disappointed to hear that the Vancouver School Board will stop being a Living Wage Employer.
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BC Budget 2025
Bailey's budget must unite, not divide
An article by Anastasia French (Living Wage BC), Rowan Burdge (Poverty Reduction Coalition) and Véronique Sioufi (BC Policy Solutions)
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Year End Wrap Up
Our achievements this year
We are a very small program (with currently only one staff member), but with a network of hundreds of very passionate employers, advocates, labour partners and community champions, we managed to achieve far more than we could on our own.
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Living Wage Rates 2024
Soaring cost of living—especially for housing—causes living wages to increase across BC
The 2024 living wage for Metro Vancouver has risen to $27.05 per hour, a 5.3% increase from last year. This significant increase highlights the region’s deepening affordability crisis fuelled by sky-high housing costs.
Living wages are also going up across the province as our new report shows.
While inflation has eased from record highs, essential costs like rent and food continue to rise faster than general inflation.
Government initiatives such as increases to key income-tested government benefits, ongoing child care affordability improvements and the roll-out of the Canadian Dental Care Plan have provided some relief. The savings, however, have been entirely consumed by soaring prices—especially for housing and food—leaving many households struggling to make ends meet.
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Rebrand
Living Wage for Families is evolving into Living Wage BC
This rebrand is a major step in our journey to ensure that every worker in British Columbia can thrive, not just survive.
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Equal Pay Day
80 Employers call on party leaders to take action to close wage gaps
On International Equal Pay Day, a coalition of 80 small business owners, non-profit directors, and senior HR leaders are urging party leaders to use their platforms to implement policies to close pay gaps. In an open letter addressed to all party leaders, the group, which employ thousands of workers in BC, provide a series of recommendations on actions the next government should take to close the wage gap, by lifting pay and lowering costs.
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Analysis on the New Poverty Reduction Strategy
People in poverty need a road map to real solutions: The new Poverty Reduction Strategy does not provide that
By Rowan Burdge, Provincial Director of the Poverty Reduction Coalition,
Anastasia French, Provincial Manager for Living Wage for Families BC
Véronique Sioufi, Researcher for Racial & Socio-economic Equity, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Thurber Engineering
We have a new Living Wage Employer!
Thurber Engineering just became a certified Living Wage Employer - committing to pay their staff and contracted workers a living wage.
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DIVERSEcity
A NEW LIVING WAGE EMPLOYER!
DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society just became a certified Living Wage Employer - committing to pay their staff and contracted workers a living wage.
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