B.C.’s yearly increase in its minimum wage will bring the hourly pay for the province’s lowest-paid workers from $17.85 to $18.25 per hour on June 1.
The wage increase is tied to B.C.’s monthly average inflation rate, which was 2.1 per cent in 2025. The same percentage increase applies for resident caretakers, live-in home support workers, live-in camp leaders and app-based gig workers.
This also applies to piece-rate workers for hand-harvested crops, but the wage increase for that sector does not take effect until Dec. 31 to avoid forcing producers to raise pay mid-season.
This system for adjusting the minimum wage based on inflation was enacted in 2024 through changes to the Employment Standards Act.
B.C.’s minimum wage is now near the highest in Canada among the provinces, with the rate exceeded only in the Yukon and Nunavut territories, according to Statistics Canada. The federal rate is close, at $18.15 per hour, although that only applies to certain sectors, such as interprovincial transportation, telecommunication and banking.
Roughly 141,300 workers earned the minimum wage in B.C. in 2025, according to a government news release.