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Real Wage Growth: Canada, U.S. and UK

Pay growth after inflation, year over year.

Canada: −0.8 pp in Sep 2026−3.8 pp since Sep 2024

0 of 3 series are above their level a year earlier

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

What this chart reads

Sources

Canada Real Wage Growth. Source: Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0063-01 and 18-10-0004-01 (vector v2132579), "Average hourly wage rate (12-month change) minus CPI all-items (12-month change)". Palanor pulls it from Statistics Canada's Web Data Service every day and rewrites recent periods so revisions carry through. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Statistics Canada Open Licence.

U.S. Real Wage Growth. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, series CES0500000003 and CPIAUCSL ("Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private; Consumer Price Index"). Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. Bureau of Labor Statistics data are in the public domain. Palanor subtracts the two 12-month changes.

UK Real Wage Growth. Source: Office for National Statistics, series A3WW (dataset LMS), "Average Weekly Earnings, total pay, real terms: % change, 3 month average on same period a year earlier". Palanor reads it from the ONS website's time-series data every day. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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