{"id":424750,"date":"2026-01-22T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424750\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:59:08","slug":"average-salary-increases-projected-at-three-per-cent-for-2026-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424750\/","title":{"rendered":"Average salary increases projected at three per cent for 2026, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">TORONTO \u2014 A new report says businesses are projecting salary increases of three per cent this year, excluding salary freezes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The forecast was based on consulting firm Normandin Beaudry&#8217;s salary increase pulse survey of nearly 400 Canadian organizations in the fourth quarter of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">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=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Darcy Clark, senior principal, compensation, at Normandin Beaudry says as economic and trade uncertainty continues to shape Canada&#8217;s market, organizations are taking a cautious, gradual approach to salary increase budgets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">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=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Sixteen per cent of participating organizations are making reductions, while 10 per cent are intending to increase their initial budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 A new report says businesses are projecting salary increases of three per cent this year, excluding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,177611,177610,139186,143736],"class_list":{"0":"post-424750","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-initial-salary-increase","13":"tag-normandin-beaudry","14":"tag-salary-increase","15":"tag-salary-increases"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424750","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=424750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}