- Nurse Salary in Canada - Payscale for Registered Nursing Jobs in Canada
Registered nurse salary information for nursing jobs in each of the provinces in
Canada shows that registered nurse salaries have not achieved parity across the country.
Registered nurse salaries are usually expressed on the union payscale in dollars per hour, and across the thirteen provinces and territories there is variation in the number of hours of work for full time nursing employment.
The registered nurse salary information listed here was taken from the latest contract comparison
of pay scale compiled by Canadian Federation of
Nurses Unions.
The data is current up to April 1 2010 and shows that registered nurse salaries in Quebec and
Newfoundland/Labrador have not kept up with the other provinces.
Labor union contracts
express salary in dollars per hour. Annual salary can be calculated using either the number of hours per week or the number of hours per year as defined in
collective agreement language.
It should also be noted that these wages are specifically for the pay scale of nursing labor unions and are
for positions that are classified as a general duty registered nurse at the basic level of
responsibility.
Here are the registered nurse salaries paid to nurses who provide patient care at the bedside.
The nine step salary payscale for Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario
was achieved through bargaining efforts in the last few rounds of negotiations.
The addition of higher
steps on the payscale was an attempt to provide incentive for older
more experienced nurses to stay in the workforce and delay retirement.
Some nursing labor unions have been able to negotiate "long service nursing employment recognition" rates for nurses who
continue to work in the Canadian health care system
with more than two decades of service. These incentives may provide for as much as 2% added to the base pay after
20 years of service.
In Nova Scotia, for example, after 25 years of service 3% is added to the base
pay rate which would increase the top level annual registered nurse salary in that province by $1990.90.
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