# Canada’s 1%

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2017-10-08

1-percent, 1, alberta, canada, commodities, globe-and-mail, income, newfoundland, resource, saskatchewan, uncategorized

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The Globe and Mail recently published an article about [Canada’s highest paid workers](https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/canada-1-per-cent-highest-paid-workers-compare/article36383159/). It uses census data spanning 2005 to 2015.

There’s a feature that allows you to enter your before tax income, your location, and your gender to see how you compare to “the 1 percent.”

But in case you don’t feel like doing that, here’s the minimum income required to be in the top 1 percent as of 2015 for each province/territory:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/315e7d9ca26cf42577c6118da8215fd2.png)

And here are the communities where the 1% saw the biggest pay increases:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a58bca327e1586bc221025bb7ab73f66.png)

The data certainly underscores how important commodities have been for growing individual incomes. Alberta, Newfoundland, and Saskatchewan are resource-rich provinces.

However, the above data doesn’t capture the collapse of oil prices in 2014. So it would be important to also consider what this data looks like outside of a commodities boom.

_Charts:_ [_The Globe and Mail_](https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/canada-1-per-cent-highest-paid-workers-compare/article36383159/)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/canadas-1percent)*