{"id":91,"date":"2026-10-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/09\/ontario-minimum-wage-rises-this-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:00:00","slug":"ontario-minimum-wage-rises-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/09\/ontario-minimum-wage-rises-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Minimum Wage Rises This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/sharon-51\/five-provinces-wage-remotion-videos-47f4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Ontario&#039;s general minimum wage will increase on October 1, 2026, moving from $17.60 to $17.95 per hour for workers across the province.<br \/>\nThe change was tied to a ~2% increase in Ontario&#039;s CPI, linking the new wage floor to recent inflation in the province.<br \/>\nProvincial officials said the higher wage is expected to benefit &gt;700K workers, making this one of Ontario&#039;s broadest employment standard updates currently.<br \/>\nOntario employers and HR teams have been urged to update pay rates, contracts, and job postings before October 1 to stay aligned with rules.<br \/>\nFor Ontario workplaces, the coming change means payroll planning now matters, since the updated base wage becomes mandatory provincewide on October 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario&#039;s general minimum wage will increase on October 1, 2026, moving from $17.60 to $17.95 per hour for workers across the province. The change was tied to a ~2% increase in Ontario&#039;s CPI, linking the new wage floor to recent inflation in the province. Provincial officials said the higher wage is expected to benefit &gt;700K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}