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In May, the average weekly earnings of payroll employees (seasonally adjusted) increased $1.47 to $766.32 from April. The year-to-date growth, calculated as the average of the first five months of 2007 compared with the average of the same five months in 2006, was 2.9%.
Among Canada's largest industrial sectors, earnings grew for the first five months of 2007 in manufacturing (+3.5%), health and social assistance (+2.9%), and educational services (+0.4%), while they declined in retail trade (-0.6%).
Nationally, there was little change in the number of payroll jobs in May, as the total estimated number increased only 6,900 to 14,258,800. Growth among the provinces varied, with Newfoundland and Labrador showing the largest increase (+1.3%), followed by Nova Scotia (+0.5%). Nationally, year-to-date employment growth was 0.3%. Payroll employment has increased by 41,100 since the beginning of 2007.
The average hourly earnings for hourly paid employees edged up $0.14 in May to $19.04. The average weekly hours for hourly paid employees decreased 1.0% to 31.2 hours.
Available on CANSIM: tables 281-0023 to 281-0046.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2612.
Detailed industry data, data by size of enterprise based on employment, and other labour market indicators will be available soon in the monthly publication Employment, Earnings and Hours (72-002-XIB, free).
Data on payroll employment, earnings and hours for June will be released on August 28.
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