{"id":424514,"date":"2026-01-21T22:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424514\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:07","slug":"average-salary-increase-projected-at-three-per-cent-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424514\/","title":{"rendered":"Average salary increase projected at three per cent for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A new report says businesses are projecting salary increases of three per cent this year, excluding salary freezes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The forecast was based on consulting firm Normandin Beaudry\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normandin-beaudry.ca\/en\/salary-forecast\/salary-increases-for-2026-canadian-budget-forecasts-remain-tightly-aligned-with-summer-projections\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.normandin-beaudry.ca\/en\/salary-forecast\/salary-increases-for-2026-canadian-budget-forecasts-remain-tightly-aligned-with-summer-projections\/\">salary increase pulse survey<\/a> of nearly 400 Canadian organizations in the fourth quarter of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It compared with earlier expectations for 3.1 per cent for non-unionized employees based on survey results from the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Darcy Clark, senior principal, compensation, at Normandin Beaudry says as economic and trade uncertainty continues to shape Canada\u2019s market, organizations are taking a cautious, gradual approach to salary increase budgets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report noted that nearly three-quarters of organizations are not planning any changes to their initial salary increase budget projections from last summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sixteen per cent of participating organizations are making reductions, while 10 per cent are intending to increase their initial budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report says businesses are projecting salary increases of three per cent this year, excluding salary freezes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,3717],"class_list":{"0":"post-424514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-labour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}