Income Inequality
$262,000 – average market income of the top 10% of Manitoba households with children (2014).
$4,500 – average market income of bottom 10% of Manitobans (2014).
$6,600 – average market income of bottom 10% of Canadians (2014).
$104,000 average family market income in Canada, which is $12,000 higher than the average family market income in Manitoba at $92,000 (2014).
43% increase: average Manitoba market income increased this much between 1996 – 2014.
63% increase: highest decile of the population saw their market incomes increase 63% between 1976 – 2014 in Canada.
20% decrease: lowest decile of the population saw their market incomes decrease 20% between 1976 – 2014 in Canada.
$76,000 – median market income of a family in Manitoba.
60% – decrease share of income going to the bottom 60% of population declined between 1976 – 2014.
0.5% – income share of bottom end of income spectrum in 2011 – 2014. This fell from meager 1% in 1976-1979.
$6.2 billion – annual cost to the Canadian health care system of “excess burden of disease attributable to health inequality”(Public Health Agency of Canada, 2016).
110 – number of Canadians who die prematurely every day due to income inequality (Raphael & Bryant 2014).
Manitoba Inequality Update: Low Income Families Left Behind by Ian Hudson and Benita Cohen. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/manitoba-inequali…
