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Living Wage Report 2025: Calculating what it takes to live in Metro Vancouver
The Living Wage for communities in BC:
|
Community |
2025 Wage |
% Change from 2024 |
|
Campbell River |
$25.30 |
New |
|
Columbia Valley |
$23.35 |
+2.0% |
|
Comox Valley |
$25.35 |
+4.1% |
|
Cowichan Valley |
$25.75 |
+0.2% |
|
Daajing Giids |
$25.30 |
-5.9% |
|
Fraser Valley |
$24.25 |
+4.4% |
|
Golden |
$27.80 |
+3.1% |
|
Grand Forks |
$21.55 |
+3.6% |
|
Greater Victoria |
$27.40 |
+2.3% |
|
Kamloops |
$24.45 |
+3.2% |
|
Kelowna |
$25.95 |
+0.7% |
|
Kitimat |
$27.25 |
New |
|
Metro Vancouver |
$27.85 |
+3.0% |
|
Nanaimo |
$24.40 |
+2.6% |
|
Nelson* |
$24.45 |
+12.1% |
|
Pemberton |
$25.90 |
New |
|
Penticton |
$25.10 |
+0.7% |
|
Port Alberni |
$22.60 |
New |
|
Powell River |
$26.65 |
+0.6% |
|
Prince George |
$23.15 |
+1.0% |
|
Prince Rupert |
$24.90 |
New |
|
Revelstoke* |
$27.80 |
+9.0% |
|
Salt Spring Island |
$28.45 |
+8.0% |
|
Squamish |
$28.00 |
+4.6% |
|
Sunshine Coast |
$26.65 |
+0.9% |
|
Trail |
$22.95 |
+0.4% |
|
Vernon |
$24.10 |
New |
|
Whistler |
$29.60 |
+5.4% |
* Calculations for these communities have changed this year to include the cost of owning a car
Living Wages in Canada
More and more communities across Canada are taking action in response to this country’s increasingly high levels of low-wage poverty. Why? They want everyone to afford the basic necessities of life, to live with dignity and to actively participate in their community – they want a living wage.
Living Wage Canada supports this national living-wage movement through facilitated learning and information-sharing. The site’s Canadian Living Wage Framework provides a consistent living wage definition and calculation methodology, and a strategy for recognizing corporate and community leadership who commit to passing a living wage policy.