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Salaries and wages paid in manufacturing industries, by province and industrial group, 1941, with total for significant years, 1917 to 1943

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Salaries and wages paid in manufacturing industries, by province and industrial group, 1941, with total for significant years, 1917 to 1943
	Wages
	Wage-earners
	Male	Female	Total wages	Average wages
	number		$
1917	511,605¹	*	412,118,177	762
1920	520,559¹	*	575,656,515	1,106
1922	381,670¹	*	359,560,399	935
1921	322,719	94,871	101,122,853	968
1926²	371,241	109,580	183,328,342	999
1929²	151,768	122,922	601,737,507	1,042
1930²	116,790	113,195	527,563,162	995
1931³	337,636	99,513	415,277,895	950
1932	288,817	92,966	322,245,926	844
1933	287,266	94,756	296,929,878	777
1934	326,598	101,119	355,090,929	830
1935	353,790	101,944	399,012,697	870
1936	379,977	109,965	438,873,377	896
1937	427,285	117,339	525,743,562	965
1938	409,172	112,255	498,282,208	956
1939	415,488	117,854	519,971,819	975
1940	491,439	135,045	679,273,104	1,084
1941	626,825	175,109	978,525,782	1,220
1942	732,319	242,585	1,347,934,049	1,383
1943	762,854	285,019	1,598,434,879	1,525
Provinces, 1944²
Prince Edward Island	956	466	1,354,028	952
Nova Scotia	28,059	5,003	51,902,378	1,570
New Brunswick	15,829	4,032	26,417,932	1,330
Quebec	254,412	106,553	531,810,973	1,473
Ontario	330,502	139,511	760,481,457	1,618
Manitoba	24,737	9,543	49,787,321	1,452
Saskatchewan	7,562	1,745	13,073,824	1,405
Alberta	13,912	4,147	25,935,326	1,436
British Columbia	68,622	14,688	150,706,043	1,809
Yukon and Northwest Territories	44	1	86,494	1,922
Canada, 1944	744,635	285,689	1,611,555,776	1,561
Industrial group, 1944⁴
Vegetable products	65,788	40,278	134,241,177	1,266
Animal products	53,797	23,784	98,196,710	1,266
Textiles and textile products	51,284	84,063	151,276,354	1,118
Wood and paper products	128,117	24,574	213,889,019	1,401
Iron and its products	308,747	49,795	695,369,371	1,939
Non-ferrous metal products	61,300	25,902	143,412,955	1,645
Non-metallic mineral products	22,964	3,226	43,671,467	1,667
Chemicals and allied products	41,045	26,064	103,342,890	1,540
Miscellaneous industries	11,593	8,003	28,155,833	1,437
* Data included in column to the left.
1. Includes data for column to the right.
2. The averages of wage-earners and earnings for the years 1931 to 1943 are strictly comparable with those for the years up to 1925 but not with those for the intervening years. The figures for the latest years—as for the earliest—represent the earnings for complete man-years of work, with no allowance for period of unemployment. The difference amounts only to about 3 % or 1 % in the total figures and affects chiefly the seasonal industries.
3. The increase in the number of salaried employees in 1931 is because of the following changes in metnou. (1) Prior to 1931 working proprietors, such as bakers, sawmill operators, small clothing manufacturers, etc., were required to report themselves as wage-earners. In 1931 and subsequent years, however, all sucn proprietors reported themselves as salaried employees. (2) In 1931 travelling salesmen who were attached to the plant, and devoted all or the greater part of their time to selling the products of that plant, were included with salaried employees. Prior to this they were not reported at all.
4. For statistics of annual earnings of wage-earners, by sex, see Table 24. p. 557.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book 1947.