Nursing pay rates, province by province

Shift premiums, overtime multipliers and statutory holiday rates from thirteen Canadian nursing collective agreements — each figure cited to the document it comes from.

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British Columbia BCNU / NBA Provincial Expired — job action / mediation Alberta United Nurses of Alberta Current Saskatchewan SUN – SAHO Provincial Expired — in bargaining Manitoba MNU – Shared Health Central Table Current Ontario ONA / OHA Hospital Central Current Quebec FIQ – Provincial (santé et services sociaux) Current New Brunswick NBNU – Part III Nurses (Treasury Board) Current Nova Scotia NSNU – Nova Scotia Council of Nursing Unions Expired — in bargaining Prince Edward Island PEINU – Health PEI Expired — in bargaining Newfoundland and Labrador RNUNL – Treasury Board Expired — in bargaining Northwest Territories UNW – GNWT (Appendix A10, Health & Social Services) Expired — in bargaining Nunavut NEU/PSAC – GN (Group 5, Health Care Workers) Current Yukon PIPSC – Yukon Hospital Corporation Expired — in bargaining

Why these pages exist

Nursing pay in Canada is set by a provincial collective agreement, not by an employer’s policy. The differentials, the overtime multipliers, the statutory holiday rates — all contractual, all different across provincial borders, and all quietly easy to be short-paid on. These pages record what each agreement actually says, with a link to the source document so you can check it yourself.

Where an agreement has expired, the last ratified rates are shown and labelled as expired rather than guessed forward. Announced-but-unratified increases are documented in the notes but never applied, so the figures stay consistent with what you are being paid today.

Check your own cheque against them

onWard applies your province’s rates to the shifts you actually worked, then shows deductions and net pay line by line. Enter your own base rate and it works for RNs, RPNs and LPNs alike.

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