Free series taps payroll data from 1 million workers to gauge wage growth starting on September
ADP Research will begin publishing a monthly measure of Canadian pay on September 3, drawing on payroll records from about 1m workers to track wage growth for people who stay in their jobs and those who change employers.
The series, called ADP Canada Pay Insights, will recur each month, ADP said, and the company said it will distribute the report free of charge.
Each edition will carry a national median annual pay figure for job-stayers and a year-over-year pay growth rate for Canadian workers, with breakouts by firm size, industry, gender, age and province.
The company said the report uses a matched sample of anonymized payroll transactions to follow individual workers over a 12-month period, separating job-stayers, who remain with the same employer across that span, from job-changers, who move to a new employer within it.
ADP described the report as the only Canadian labour market series to combine actual payroll transactions with individual matched employee tracking over time.
The company said the wage data could inform businesses, policy makers, academics and economists.
“As demographic change and AI advances reshape the Canadian economy, pay can serve as a barometer of labour market health,” said Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP.
She said the indicator would track pay growth and worker mobility to gauge the strength and direction of the labour market.
Jim Lord, president of ADP Canada, said the firm serves as the payroll provider for one in five employees in the Canadian markets where it operates, which he said gives it broad data on how pay is trending.
According to Lord, the analysis can help businesses prepare for shifts in the workforce.
The first edition will publish at 8:15 am ET on Thursday, September 3, with a press release available at mediacentre.adp.ca.
The company said the monthly data, a historical file and a full release schedule will appear on a dedicated ADP Canada Pay Insights page in September.
