Jason Rosso has been advertising higher wages for new workers ever since his Brampton-based restaurant was allowed to reopen last summer.
In search of line cooks, a position that typically earns minimum wage, the owner of J. Red & Co. Food + Drink raised signing contracts to $23 an hour. It worked.
“I’d never paid that much for a line cook before. But what else were we going to do?” said Rosso, the owner of J. Red & Co. Food + Drink. “The restaurant industry has shrunk exponentially. The talent pool has disappeared. So people can ask for that kind of money now.”
The Canadian workforce is experiencing some of the hottest wage growth in years, fuelled by employers seeking to fill job vacancies by offering competitive pay and hiring bonuses. On average, though, new hires have been the primary recipients of significant salary bumps, while established employees have faced moderate to meagre gains.
Average hourly wages were 5.2 per cent higher in November compared with two years earlier, Statistics Canada reported Friday. Across all industries, average wages grew at a rate of 10 per cent for new employees — those with job tenure of three months or less — compared to 6.4 per cent for employees that have been in their current job for 18 months or longer.
The differences are most apparent in industries where job vacancies are high. In food services, new hires welcomed wage increases of 8.5 per cent from two years earlier, while established employees saw gains of 2.3 per...
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