Income and Financial data of T1 tax filers, 2022
Released: 2024-03-06
Canadian tax filers earned on average $38,290 (+6.4%) in wages, salaries and commissions in 2022. When including other private incomes and government transfers, the average total income was $56,560 (+2.8%) in 2022. Charitable donations (average $400, -4.8%) and RRSP contributions (average $1,870, -6.5%) reported by T1 tax filers fell in 2022.
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Note to readers
Data in this release are based on a preliminary version of the T1 Family File (tax filer data).
Statistics on changes in amounts between years do not take inflation into account, which was 6.8% in 2022 based on the annual Consumer Price Index available on table 11-10-0018-01. Changes smaller than +6.8% would represent a decrease in constant dollars.
Changes in the T1 Family File processing introduced in 2022 have resulted in improved estimates for some government transfers. Analysis indicates that this has increased total income by 0.1% for reference year 2021.
Canadians contribute in many ways to charitable organizations. This release reports only on donations to charities and approved organizations for which official tax receipts were provided and claimed on tax returns.
Wages, salaries and commissions reported by tax filers on their T1s are based on the employment income recorded on their T4 Statement of Remuneration Paid. Wages, salaries and commissions also include tax-exempt employment income of tax filers reported on the T90 tax form. In addition to employment income, wages, salaries and commissions include training allowances, tips, gratuities and royalties received from employers during the tax year. Self-employment income is excluded.
All data associated with this release have been tabulated according to the 2021 Standard Geographical Classification used for the 2021 Census.
Products
The document "Technical Reference Guide for the Preliminary Estimates from the T1 Family File (T1FF)" (11260001) presents information about the methodology, concepts and quality for the data available in this release.
Additional data on Canadian tax filers (17C0010, various prices), on charitable donors (13C0014, various prices), on registered retirement savings plan contributors (17C0006, various prices) and on wages, salaries and commissions (11230001, various prices) are also now available for Canada, the provinces and territories, economic regions, census divisions, census subdivisions, census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, census tracts, and postal-based geographies. These custom services are available upon request.
The Income, pensions, spending and wealth statistics portal, which is accessible from the Subjects module of the Statistics Canada website, provides users with a single point of access to a wide variety of information related to income, pensions, spending and wealth.
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