Table 5
Real hourly wages (2010 dollars) of men employed full-time, by age, 1981 to 2011

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Real hourly wages (2010 dollars) of men employed full-time, by age, 1981 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays median and average real hourly wages of men employed full-time, by age, for selected years of the 1981-to-2011 period. The row headers describe the measure of wages used (median hourly wages, average hourly wages), the years considered, and the periods over which growth rates in real wages are calculated. The column headers describe the age group considered as well as the ratio of the wages of men aged 25 to 34 to the wages of men aged 45 to 54.
  Age group Column 2 divided by Column 4
17 to 24  25 to 34 35 to 44  45 to 54 55 to 64
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6
  dollars ratio
Median hourly wages  
Year  
1981 15.79 22.03 23.54 22.57 20.64 0.98
1989 13.24 20.76 25.09 25.39 23.52 0.82
1998 12.12 19.63 23.61 25.56 24.30 0.77
2001 13.10 20.25 23.82 25.77 24.05 0.79
2008 14.04 20.94 24.50 25.53 24.50 0.82
2011 13.56 21.30 24.21 25.60 24.21 0.83
  percent change
Period  
1981 to 2001 -17.0 -8.1 1.2 14.2 16.5 …
2001 to 2011 3.5 5.2 1.6 -0.6 0.7 …
1981 to 2011 -14.2 -3.3 2.9 13.4 17.3 …
1981 to 1998 -23.2 -10.9 0.3 13.2 17.7 …
1998 to 2011 11.8 8.5 2.5 0.2 -0.4 …
  dollars ratio
Average hourly wages  
Year  
1981 17.19 22.95 25.33 24.25 22.63 0.95
1989 14.57 21.80 26.69 27.45 26.24 0.79
1998 13.29 21.05 24.81 27.55 25.96 0.76
2001 14.16 22.08 25.43 27.53 26.29 0.80
2008 14.96 23.17 26.52 27.97 27.06 0.83
2011 14.92 23.18 26.77 28.44 27.28 0.82
  percent change
Period  
1981 to 2001 -17.6 -3.8 0.4 13.5 16.2 …
2001 to 2011 5.3 5.0 5.3 3.3 3.7 …
1981 to 2011 -13.2 1.0 5.7 17.3 20.5 …
1981 to 1998 -22.7 -8.3 -2.1 13.6 14.7 …
1998 to 2011 12.2 10.1 7.9 3.2 5.1 …
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, 1981 Survey of Work History, 1984 Survey of Union Membership, 1986 to 1990 Labour Market Activity Survey, 1997 to 2011 Labour Force Survey, and Consumer Price Index (All-items).
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