Some key numbers culled from the 2006 census on income and earnings, released Thursday by Statistics Canada.
20.6 Percentage drop in real income between 1980 and 2005 of workers in the lowest-income brackets. Those in the top brackets saw their income rise 16.4 per cent.
3.4 Percentage decline in median earnings in British Columbia between 2000 and 2005, a surprising figure given the provinces higher-than-average employment growth during the same period.
1 Ranking of the Quebec village of Lac-Saint-Joseph, among all Canadian communities, in terms of the highest median family income. At $145,175, it is more than twice the Canadian median.
2.2 Percentage of full-time workers in Canada who earned $150,000 or more.
2.4 Percentage of workers in Prince Edward Island who made more than $100,000, the lowest proportion of any province or territory.
12.1 Percentage of workers in the Northwest Territories who made more than $100,000, the highest proportion of any province or territory.
14.5 Percentage of all children aged five or under who are part of what Statistics Canada considers a low-income family.
25.4 Percentage of full-time workers with a university degree, up from 14.9 per cent in 1980.
33.3 Percentage increase between 2000-2005 in the median earnings of a job category identified by Statistics Canada as Managers in Primary Production (Except Agriculture). This oil patch job has a median salary of $97,227 the highest among any occupational classification listed by the government.
48 Number of cents earned by the average male immigrant with a university degree compared to the dollar earned by a native-born, university-educated Canadian. The gap was actually less for non-university educated immigrants, who earned 61 cents to every dollar earned by their Canadian-born counterparts.
9,165 Difference in dollars between the Canadian median family income before taxes ($66,343) and after taxes ($57,178).
12,049 Dollar value of the average government transfer payment to families in Newfoundland and Labrador, which represent 19.1 per cent of their average total income the highest proportion in Canada.
3,484,625 Number of Canadians who live below what Statistics Canada calls the low income cut-off commonly referred to as the poverty line.
The Canadian Press
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