Canada: employment income by gender and sexual orientation

While not being heterosexual tends to have a negative impact on the median employment income of Canadian men, the same is not true for women. Over the 2015-2018 period, gay men earned an average of 10,000 Canadian dollars less than straight men, and bisexual men earned 22,000 dollars less. Conversely, lesbian women earned more than straight women, but also more than bisexual men. Regardless of gender, bisexuals earned less than all other groups.

Median employment income before taxes of full-time workers aged 25 to 64 in Canada between 2015 and 2018, by sexual orientation and gender (in Canadian dollars)

Characteristic	Heterosexual	Lesbian or gay	Bisexual
Men	61,400	51,400	39,400
Women	47,300	48,600	38,500

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October 2022

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

2015 to 2018

Age group

25-64 years

Special properties

Full-time workers; income before taxes

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Sample includes people aged 25 to 64 who were employed full-time at a job or business in the week preceding the survey, with earnings from wages or self-employment over $1,000 in the previous year. Employment income data from the previous year was used in the analysis. Income amounts were averaged over the 2015-to-2018 period and adjusted to 2015 dollars and rounded to the nearest 100."

"Sexual orientation in research has been assessed on the basis of sexual behaviour, sexual attraction, or self-identity—each of these three concepts yielding slightly different prevalence estimates. In this table, estimates of sexual orientation are based on the survey question which targeted the concept of identity and provided behaviour-based definitions." Adapted from Statistics Canada, statcan.gc.ca, 2015 to 2018. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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