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Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours

The survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours is Canada's only source of detailed information on the total number of paid employees, payrolls, hours at detailed industrial, provincial and territorial levels.

Major topics and subtopics

Income and earnings

  • Payroll employment
  • Average weekly earnings
  • Gross payroll
  • Hours worked, overtime, normal work week
  • Hourly paid or salaried

Labour

  • Payroll employment
  • Average weekly earnings
  • Gross payroll
  • Hours worked, overtime, standard/normal work weekFootnote 1
  • Hourly paid or salaried

Secondary topics

None

Limited topics

Place of work and commuting to work

Type

Cross-sectional

Sample size

Combination of payroll deduction files from Canada Revenue Agency and data from the monthly Business Payroll Survey of 15,000 establishments

Frequency

Monthly (since 1983)
Survey break between 1990 and 1991

Lowest levels of geography

Provinces and territories

Products and services

  • Basic standard products
  • CANSIM
  • Customized tabulations
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