New numbers show Indigenous people get paid less in the workforce – CHEK

May 1, 2024

A new report by Statistics Canada shows that Indigenous people earn significantly less per hour than non-Indigenous people.

The data collected in 2022 shows that First Nations people made an average of $28.78 per hour, and Métis people made $30.38 per hour. These numbers were then compared to non-Indigenous people earning nine per cent more, totalling $32.58 an hour.

Leslie Varley, executive director of the British Columbia Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, is from the Killer Whale clan of the Nisga’a Nation. She has experienced a lack of equal pay in the workplace.

“It happens a lot, and I have certainly been in those kinds of positions where I was, and Indigenous women paid less than my counterpart who’s a non-Indigenous woman or man,” said Farley.

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