Vancouver Drops Living Wage Policy for City Workers

The downtown Vancouver skyline is seen on Dec. 21, 2022. The city council is dropping the living wage policy for workers that it initiated in 2017. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

The City of Vancouver has ended its living wage policy that had been in place for the past six years.

Following a closed-door meeting on Jan. 31, councillors approved the action and will direct staff to revise the program, implementing a five-year rolling average living wage to be used as “the standard to pay fair wages to direct employees and contracted service providers.”