OTTAWA--Human-resources company ADP plans to launch a Canadian wage tracker that promises to offer insights into payrolls and the health of the country's labor market.
ADP's research arm will begin publishing a Canada pay insights report beginning Sept. 3, providing what it said will be an independent labor market indicator of wage trends based on anonymized payroll data representing about 1 million workers in the country.
The recurring data series would sit alongside official monthly labor force survey and payroll indicators released by the national data agency. It will be similar to ADP's U.S. private sector jobs data that offers an alternative look at the market to the Labor Department's employment report.
Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP, said the new report would complement current Canadian government data at a time when the country is confronted with a labor market that is being complicated by demographic shifts, geopolitical pressures and the emergence of artificial intelligence in the workplace.
ADP said its indicator of wage trends will be based on high-frequency data that can provide granular information and a reliable read of the workforce for businesses of all sizes, as well as policymakers, academia and economists.
The report will feature a national median annual pay level, and the on-year pay growth rate for workers in Canada. It also will analyze pay figures by company size, industry, gender, age and province. The report will track a cohort of individual workers over a one-year period and will look at both workers who have remained with the same employer and those who switched employer in the last 12 months.
Richardson said ADP's position in Canada mirrors that in the U.S. It is the payroll provider to one in five employees in the northern country, offering it the size and scope of data to provide a unique view of how pay is trending for workers in Canada, she said.
Statistics Canada each month publishes a labor force survey that samples about 65,000 households. It also releases a less timely survey of payroll employment, earnings and hours, and job vacancies and employment insurance statistics.
Ali Jaffery, chief economist at KPMG Canada, said Statistics Canada's response rates to its survey haven't fully recovered since the pandemic and the agency has had to increase its reliance on online surveys without the aid of an interviewer.
ADP said its monthly report will be released on its website and be provided free of charge.
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