Minimum wage increases, count to 2026 continues

The New Brunswick government has announced that minimum wage will increase twice in 2009, for a cumulative growth of 50 cents. One increase on April fifteenth and another on September first will bring the base wage in New Brunswick to $8.25 per hour.

"We want New Brunswickers to work in this province and be successful," Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Donald Arseneault said. "At the same time, we are seeking to attract outside investors to help New Brunswick grow and be self-sufficient by 2026."


A View of the Plundering and Burning of Grimross, 1758, by Lt. Thomas Davies. Grimross, a French village of some 300 inhabitants on the site of present-day Gagetown, was sacked and burned to the ground by British forces in October 1758 during the Seven Years War between France and England. The British were led by Colonel Robert Monckton, who later lent his name to Moncton, New Brunswick's second-largest city. Credit National Gallery of Canada/No. 6270.