Inflation-adjusted occupation pay — 2 November 2026 Default price basis: September 2026 Canadian dollars. This is the latest released CPI month as of 2 November; Statistics Canada released it on 19 October 2026. October CPI is scheduled for 16 November. These are CPI-adjusted equivalents of older pay estimates, not measured current wages or a forecast of actual wage growth. Formula: adjusted pay = original published pay × target-month CPI ÷ arithmetic mean of monthly CPI over the earnings reference period. Calculations use unrounded factors; display rounds dollars to cents. Means, medians, low/high and quartiles remain distinct statistics. Annual amounts stay annual; missing values stay missing. CPI source: Statistics Canada table 18-10-0004-01, monthly all-items CPI, not seasonally adjusted, 2002=100. Canada benchmark: Canada CPI, vector v41690973; September 2026 index 170.0. BC and both economic-region benchmarks: British Columbia CPI, vector v41692462; September 2026 index 163.5. No separate island CPI or Vancouver economic-region CPI is assumed. The choice of BC CPI for its subregions is a disclosed broad adjustment, not a measured local inflation rate. CPI indexes measure price changes through time; their levels do not measure regional differences in living costs or purchasing power. Base-period rules: - Job Bank 2023–2024: average all 24 monthly CPI values, January 2023 through December 2024. This equal-month weighting approximates the pooled source period; exact survey/observation weights were not available. It does not recreate a monthly wage distribution or newly estimate its median. - Job Bank 2024: average the 12 months of 2024. This also applies to judges whose published file reference period is 2024, regardless of the 2025 revision date. - Job Bank 2021 Census rows: source label 2021 is retained, but Census employment-income reference year is 2020. Use the 12-month 2020 CPI average. Census income includes net self-employment income. The primary guide distinguishes the 2020 income year from the May 2021 occupation reference date. - NA/unknown period: do not invent an adjustment. All positive source figures in this retained snapshot have a supported base period. Base averages and uplifts: Canada CPI mean / uplift BC CPI mean / uplift 2020 136.958333 / +24.1253% 132.425000 / +23.4661% 2023–2024 158.979167 / +6.9323% 153.200000 / +6.7232% 2024 160.850000 / +5.6885% 155.166667 / +5.3706% Examples: Vancouver Island and Coast carpenter median $32/hour becomes an estimated $34.15/hour in September 2026 dollars; Lower Mainland–Southwest $31.50 becomes $33.62. Both use BC CPI and the 2023–2024 base, so their 1.6% relative difference remains unchanged. The national carpenter figure uses Canada CPI; its change can differ because national inflation differs from BC inflation. Percentage comparisons require the same units and original earnings periods. In adjusted mode they also share the September 2026 target month. Calculate (adjusted regional pay ÷ adjusted reference pay − 1) × 100. Different dates still suppress the comparison: inflation does not make differently dated occupational surveys equivalent. Different statistical-source families remain visible and these descriptive comparisons do not adjust for experience, occupation mix within a group, hours, sampling uncertainty or regional price levels. The original source CSV download is unchanged. The adjusted CSV retains every original column and adds inflation_adjusted_* fields plus base/target CPI, vector, factor, source hash and adjustment status. The checkbox beside the pay controls switches the entire table to original published values in one click; estimate details always expose the original amount and source date. The adjustment applies only to occupation pay. Supplier schedules, Compass's $390 + $380 offer, undated quotes, historical project allowances and other customer prices are unchanged. Job Bank also periodically raises low-wage estimates to later provincial minimums. Its file does not identify a separate price-reference date for each affected value. The adjustment therefore uses the published survey period for the retained estimate, even if that value may already include a later legal-floor update; this is a transparent CPI-equivalent benchmark, not a reconstruction of raw survey pay. A CPI adjustment is also not a current legal minimum-wage calculation; no floor is silently imposed on historic observations. Primary sources: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810000401 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/tbl/csv/18100004-eng.zip https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/261019/dq261019a-eng.htm https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/ref/98-500/004/98-500-x2021004-eng.pdf (Income Reference Guide, Reference periods section, printed page 7) https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/trend-analysis/search-wages/wage-methodology Provenance: retained WUC macro archive was reviewed and ends August 2026. One bounded new official CPI archive supplies September and history together; no data series are spliced. source-receipt.json retains archive/selected-data hashes and vectors. cpi-selected-months.csv has 162 original table rows (81 months for each geography, January 2020–September 2026). build_inflation.py rebuilds the public CPI model and adjusted CSV offline. Original wage and customer-price files remain byte-for-byte unchanged.