4 calculators · 14 jurisdictions

Employment Standards Calculators

What Canadian employers must pay: minimum wage, vacation pay, statutory holiday pay and overtime, for every province and territory and for federally regulated work. Every figure is sourced to the employment standards authority that sets it and stamped with the date it was last verified.

Why there are 14 answers and not one

Employment standards in Canada are provincial, not national. Each province and territory writes its own rules on minimum wage, vacation, statutory holidays and overtime, and a separate federal regime under the Canada Labour Code covers banks, airlines and airports, interprovincial road and rail transport, marine shipping, telecommunications and broadcasting, and federal Crown corporations.

The differences are not cosmetic. Minimum wage ranges from $15.00 to $20.17 an hour. The statutory holiday count runs from six to eleven. Overtime starts at 40 hours a week in some places and 48 in others, and eight jurisdictions add a daily threshold on top. Two provinces price overtime off the minimum wage rather than off your own rate. Vacation pay steps up from 4% to 6% at anywhere between three and fifteen years of service, and one territory never steps up at all.

These calculators keep every jurisdiction’s rules in one table with the source and the verification date attached, which is the only way a set of pages like this stays honest as rates change. Every one of them was last verified on 2 September 2026.

What these calculators do not do

They compute the statutory minimum. A contract or collective agreement can be better than the minimum and can never be worse, so a real pay stub is often higher than what you see here. They also do not model the exemptions — managers, many licensed professionals, farm workers, commission salespeople and a long list of specific industries fall outside some or all of these rules in most jurisdictions, and each page names the exemptions its jurisdiction applies.

For a binding answer, contact the employment standards office named on the jurisdiction page, or a lawyer.

When a job ends

Unpaid vacation pay and unpaid statutory holiday pay are both owed on termination, so these calculators are often the first half of a bigger question. The second half is notice, severance and income support: Ontario severance pay, EI benefits and the paycheck calculator for what any of it nets after tax, CPP and EI.

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