2024 Minimum Wage Increases Confirmed

Increases to the upcoming minimum wage rates for 2024 have been confirmed following legislative changes that ensure wages keep pace with inflation.

On June 1st, BC’s lowest-paid workers will get a pay raise, when the general minimum wage increases from $16.75 to $17.40 per hour.

That represents a 3.9% increase, consistent with B.C.’s average rate of inflation in 2023.

The alternate minimum rates, for residential caretakers, live-in home-support workers, and camp leaders, will receive the same 3.9% increase June 1st, while  minimum piece rates for 15 hand-harvested crops will also increase by the same percentage in December.

In February, the government introduced changes to the Employment Standards Act to guarantee that future increases to all minimum rates will be automatically determined by the previous year’s average inflation rate for B.C.

Most minimum wage rates will increase on June 1 of each year, except for the minimum agricultural piece rates that will increase on Dec. 31 of each year to ensure crop producers will not have to adjust wages in the middle of the harvesting season.

To learn more, visit Government of British Columbia.