The province is increasing the minimum wage from $16.55 to $17.20 per hour, and $15.60 to $16.20 per hour for students under 18 years old.
The increase is calculated based on the Ontario Consumer price Index as a method to combat increased inflation rates.
Ontario’s wage increase is also the second largest in Canada and will also include liqour servers that have not seen an increase since 2021.
The Employment Standards Act reads that tips and gratuities are not considered wages and are not counted when calculating new minimum wage pay.
People who work from home will see their minimum wage increase to $18.90 per hour.
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Workers that make minimum wage hunting, fishing or as a wilderness guide are paid based on if they’ve worked more than five consecutive hours a day or less. For those workers, they will see an increase to $86 any amount of work done less than five consecutive hours and $172.05 if they’ve worked for more than five hours a day whether or not they’re consecutive.
Employees that work in federally-regulated public or private jobs will have to wait until April 1 before their minimum wages increase.
Those workers are currently seeing a minimum wage of $17.30 an hour.