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  • 1. Upper income limit, income share and average income by economic family type and income decile
    Table: 11-10-0192-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Upper income limit, income share and average of market, total and after-tax income by economic family type and income decile, annual.
    Release date: 2025-05-01
  • 2. Upper income limit, income share and average of adjusted market, total and after-tax income by income decile
    Table: 11-10-0193-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Upper income limit, income share and average of adjusted market, total and after-tax income by income decile, annual.
    Release date: 2025-05-01
  • 3. High income tax filers in Canada
    Table: 11-10-0055-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    This table presents income shares, thresholds, tax shares, and total counts of individual Canadian tax filers, with a focus on high income individuals (95% income threshold, 99% threshold, etc.). Income thresholds are based on national threshold values, regardless of selected geography; for example, the number of Nova Scotians in the top 1% will be calculated as the number of taxfiling Nova Scotians whose total income exceeded the 99% national income threshold. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.

    Release date: 2024-10-28
  • 4. High income tax filers in Canada, specific geographic area thresholds
    Table: 11-10-0056-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    This table presents income shares, thresholds, tax shares, and total counts of individual Canadian tax filers, with a focus on high income individuals (95% income threshold, 99% threshold, etc.). Income thresholds are geography-specific; for example, the number of Nova Scotians in the top 1% will be calculated as the number of taxfiling Nova Scotians whose total income exceeded the 99% income threshold of Nova Scotian tax filers. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.

    Release date: 2024-10-28
  • 5. Trends in between-workplace earnings inequality in 14 high-income countries
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202100400001
    Description:

    International comparison is an important way to further our understanding of the trend in income inequality and its contributing factors. The article summarizes the findings of a new report, “Rising between workplace inequalities in high-income countries,” that was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Statistics Canada researchers contributed to the international collaboration that examines earnings inequality attributable to differences in average earnings across firms in 14 high-income countries including Canada.

    Release date: 2021-04-28
  • 6. Getting to know Canada's top 1%, 2018 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2020081
    Description:

    Income data for Canadian tax filers shed light on the distribution of income in 2018. This infographic illuminates selected characteristics of the top 1% of tax filers in Canada that year, including information on age, gender, and geographic location. The top 1% of tax filers is defined as the 1% of tax filers with the highest total incomes when ranked nationally. These estimates are for a pre-pandemic period and do not reflect any impacts of COVID-19. However, they do provide a baseline for analysing changes to the top of the income distribution during the pandemic period, once those data become available.

    Release date: 2020-11-18
  • 7. Study: Introducing a new integrated dataset for research on intergenerational mobility Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202007722663
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2020-03-17
  • 8. Working Women in Canada’s Top 1%: Who are they? Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019015
    Description:

    Despite notable advancements in education and labour force participation over the last half century, women continue to be less represented relative to men among top income groups, accounting for one in five workers in Canada’s top 1% in 2015. This infographic provides a gender-based analysis of key socio-demographic and employment characteristics of workers in the top 1%, based on the 2016 Census of Population.

    Release date: 2019-03-08
  • 9. Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap in Canada: The Role of Women’s Under-representation Among Top Earners Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-626-X2019002
    Description:

    This Economic Insights article examines the representation of women in top earnings groups—specifically, the top 0.1%, next 0.9% and next 9% of earners—and the extent to which their under-representation in these groups contributes to the overall gender gap in annual earnings. Trends are documented over almost forty years from 1978 to 2015.

    Release date: 2019-03-07
  • 10. Study: Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap in Canada: The Role of Women’s Under-representation Among Top Earners Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201906620084
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-03-07
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  • 1. Upper income limit, income share and average income by economic family type and income decile
    Table: 11-10-0192-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Upper income limit, income share and average of market, total and after-tax income by economic family type and income decile, annual.
    Release date: 2025-05-01
  • 2. Upper income limit, income share and average of adjusted market, total and after-tax income by income decile
    Table: 11-10-0193-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Upper income limit, income share and average of adjusted market, total and after-tax income by income decile, annual.
    Release date: 2025-05-01
  • 3. High income tax filers in Canada
    Table: 11-10-0055-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    This table presents income shares, thresholds, tax shares, and total counts of individual Canadian tax filers, with a focus on high income individuals (95% income threshold, 99% threshold, etc.). Income thresholds are based on national threshold values, regardless of selected geography; for example, the number of Nova Scotians in the top 1% will be calculated as the number of taxfiling Nova Scotians whose total income exceeded the 99% national income threshold. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.

    Release date: 2024-10-28
  • 4. High income tax filers in Canada, specific geographic area thresholds
    Table: 11-10-0056-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Annual
    Description:

    This table presents income shares, thresholds, tax shares, and total counts of individual Canadian tax filers, with a focus on high income individuals (95% income threshold, 99% threshold, etc.). Income thresholds are geography-specific; for example, the number of Nova Scotians in the top 1% will be calculated as the number of taxfiling Nova Scotians whose total income exceeded the 99% income threshold of Nova Scotian tax filers. Different definitions of income are available in the table namely market, total, and after-tax income, both with and without capital gains.

    Release date: 2024-10-28
  • 5. Upper income limits and shares of total income quintiles, by major income source Archived
    Table: 11-10-0158-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Upper income limits and shares of total income quintiles.
    Release date: 2015-12-17
  • 6. Upper income limits and income shares of after-tax income quintiles Archived
    Table: 11-10-0168-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Upper income limits and income shares of after-tax income quintiles for all family units.
    Release date: 2015-12-17
  • 7. Upper income limits and income shares of adjusted after-tax income quintiles Archived
    Table: 11-10-0170-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Upper income limits and income shares of adjusted after-tax income quintiles for all economic family units.
    Release date: 2015-12-17
  • 8. Profile - Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, Aboriginal Peoples, Education and Labour, Mobility and Migration, and Income and Housing for Canada, Provinces, Territories and Federal Electoral Districts (2013 Representation Order), National Household Survey, 2011
    Profile of a community or region: 99-014-X2011020
    Description:

    Using 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) data, this profile provides a statistical overview of variables describing immigration and ethnocultural diversity, Aboriginal peoples, education, labour, mobility and migration, income and earnings, and housing and shelter costs.

    In the National Household Survey product line, groups of related variables are referred to as 'release components of profiles.' These are made available with the major releases of variables of the NHS cycle, starting with the Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, and Aboriginal Peoples releases. Together, they will form a complete NHS Profile of all the variables for each level of geography. Profile-component data are available at the Canada, province and territory, census division and census subdivision levels, at the census metropolitan area and census agglomeration levels, census tract level, and at the federal electoral district (based on the 2013 Representation Order) level.

    Release date: 2014-05-21
  • 9. Profile - Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, Aboriginal Peoples, Education and Labour, Mobility and Migration, and Income and Housing for Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, National Household Survey, 2011
    Profile of a community or region: 99-014-X2011015
    Description:

    Using 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) data, this profile provides a statistical overview of variables describing immigration and ethnocultural diversity, Aboriginal peoples, education, labour, mobility and migration, income and earnings, and housing and shelter costs.

    In the National Household Survey product line, groups of related variables are referred to as 'release components of profiles.' These are made available with the major releases of variables of the NHS cycle, starting with the Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, and Aboriginal Peoples releases. Together, they will form a complete NHS Profile of all the variables for each level of geography. Profile-component data are available at the Canada, province and territory, census division and census subdivision levels, at the census metropolitan area and census agglomeration levels, census tract level, and at the federal electoral district (based on the 2003 Representation Order) level.

    Release date: 2013-09-11
  • 10. Profile - Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, Aboriginal Peoples, Education and Labour, Mobility and Migration, and Income and Housing for Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, National Household Survey, 2011
    Profile of a community or region: 99-014-X2011016
    Description:

    Using 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) data, this profile provides a statistical overview of variables describing immigration and ethnocultural diversity, Aboriginal peoples, education, labour, mobility and migration, income and earnings, and housing and shelter costs.

    In the National Household Survey product line, groups of related variables are referred to as 'release components of profiles.' These are made available with the major releases of variables of the NHS cycle, starting with the Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, and Aboriginal Peoples releases. Together, they will form a complete NHS Profile of all the variables for each level of geography. Profile-component data are available at the Canada, province and territory, census division and census subdivision levels, at the census metropolitan area and census agglomeration levels, census tract level, and at the federal electoral district (based on the 2003 Representation Order) level.

    Release date: 2013-09-11
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  • 1. Trends in between-workplace earnings inequality in 14 high-income countries
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202100400001
    Description:

    International comparison is an important way to further our understanding of the trend in income inequality and its contributing factors. The article summarizes the findings of a new report, “Rising between workplace inequalities in high-income countries,” that was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Statistics Canada researchers contributed to the international collaboration that examines earnings inequality attributable to differences in average earnings across firms in 14 high-income countries including Canada.

    Release date: 2021-04-28
  • 2. Getting to know Canada's top 1%, 2018 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2020081
    Description:

    Income data for Canadian tax filers shed light on the distribution of income in 2018. This infographic illuminates selected characteristics of the top 1% of tax filers in Canada that year, including information on age, gender, and geographic location. The top 1% of tax filers is defined as the 1% of tax filers with the highest total incomes when ranked nationally. These estimates are for a pre-pandemic period and do not reflect any impacts of COVID-19. However, they do provide a baseline for analysing changes to the top of the income distribution during the pandemic period, once those data become available.

    Release date: 2020-11-18
  • 3. Study: Introducing a new integrated dataset for research on intergenerational mobility Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202007722663
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2020-03-17
  • 4. Working Women in Canada’s Top 1%: Who are they? Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019015
    Description:

    Despite notable advancements in education and labour force participation over the last half century, women continue to be less represented relative to men among top income groups, accounting for one in five workers in Canada’s top 1% in 2015. This infographic provides a gender-based analysis of key socio-demographic and employment characteristics of workers in the top 1%, based on the 2016 Census of Population.

    Release date: 2019-03-08
  • 5. Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap in Canada: The Role of Women’s Under-representation Among Top Earners Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-626-X2019002
    Description:

    This Economic Insights article examines the representation of women in top earnings groups—specifically, the top 0.1%, next 0.9% and next 9% of earners—and the extent to which their under-representation in these groups contributes to the overall gender gap in annual earnings. Trends are documented over almost forty years from 1978 to 2015.

    Release date: 2019-03-07
  • 6. Study: Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap in Canada: The Role of Women’s Under-representation Among Top Earners Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201906620084
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-03-07
  • 7. StatCan Research Beat: Who are the working women in the top 1%? Archived
    Stats in brief: 89-20-00042019001
    Description: In this edition of StatCan’s Research Beat, we’ll go over some key findings from a recent study – a first gender-based analysis of workers in the top 1% in Canada. Essentially, based on 2016 Census data, there were some key differences between working women and men with a total income of about $270,000 or more.
    Release date: 2019-01-28
  • 8. Who are the Working Women in Canada’s Top 1%? Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2019002
    Description:

    Rising income inequality in industrialized nations has motivated research on high-income Canadians and how they differ from the general population. Despite notable advancements in education and labour force participation over the last half century, women continue to be less represented relative to men among top income groups, accounting for one in five workers in Canada’s top 1% in 2015. This paper fills an important information gap by providing a gender-based analysis of key socio-demographic and employment characteristics of working women and men in the top 1%, based on the 2016 Census of Population.

    Release date: 2019-01-21
  • 9. Who are the working women in Canada's top 1%? Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201902119226
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-01-21
  • 10. The fall and rise of Canada’s top income earners Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-630-X2016009
    Description:

    This issue of Canadian Megatrends describes the share of market income earned by the highest earners in society and how that portion has changed from 1920 to 2014.

    Release date: 2016-12-16
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