WINNIPEG – Minimum wage in Manitoba will increase to $10.70 an hour effective Oct. 1, the province announced Wednesday.
“We have increased the minimum wage every year since 2000,” Labour Minister Erna Braun said in a news release.
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The change increases minimum wage another 25 cents per hour and makes Manitoba’s minimum wage the fourth highest in the country.
Minimum wage since 2000:
- April 1, 2001 – $6.25
- April 1, 2002 – $6.50
- April 1, 2003 – $6.75
- April 1, 2004 – $7
- April 1, 2005 – $7.25
- April 1, 2006 – $7.60
- April 1, 2007 – $8
- April 1, 2008 – $8.50
- May 1, 2009 – $8.75
- Oct. 1, 2009 – $9
- Oct. 1, 2010 – $9.50
- Oct. 1, 2011 – $10
- Oct. 1, 2012 – $10.25
- Oct. 1, 2013 – $10.45
- Oct. 1, 2014 – $10.70
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