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Minimum Wage in Quebec 2026: General, Tipped and Berry-Picking Rates

By Alex Francisco Updated Oct 8, 2026 Figures checked Oct 8, 2026 14 min read

What is the minimum wage in Quebec in 2026?

Quebec's general minimum wage is $16.60 an hour, the rate in effect since May 1, 2026 under the Regulation respecting labour standards. Employees who receive tips have a minimum of $13.30 an hour before tips. Strawberry pickers are paid at least $1.32 per kilogram and raspberry pickers at least $4.93 per kilogram. The CNESST has published no later rate as of October 8, 2026.

Quebec's general minimum wage is $16.60 an hour, in effect since May 1, 2026, and it covers full-time and part-time workers alike.
Employees who receive tips have a lower minimum of $13.30 an hour, and only people who usually receive tips in restaurants, bars, meal delivery and tourist accommodation qualify for it.
Strawberry pickers are paid by weight at $1.32 per kilogram and raspberry pickers at $4.93 per kilogram, with a top-up to the hourly minimum when the state of the fields or fruit lowers output.
Workers paid by the piece or on commission must still receive at least the equivalent of $16.60 for every hour worked, and the employer pays any shortfall.
Overtime starts after a 40-hour standard work week for most workers and is paid at 1.5 times the usual hourly rate; farm workers are paid a single rate.
A wage complaint to the CNESST must be filed within 1 year from the time the amounts are due, and no later rate has been published as of October 8, 2026.

— YieldMaple, figures checked against official sources on October 8, 2026. Sources

Quebec sets its minimum wages in the Regulation respecting labour standards, and the Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CNESST) enforces them and publishes the current rates. Every Quebec rate and rule on this page comes from the CNESST website and the regulation as published on LégisQuébec, checked on October 8, 2026. The Ontario and Alberta figures used for comparison come from ontario.ca and alberta.ca. This page explains the rules; it is not legal advice, and a pay slip compared with the hours actually worked is the only way to check a specific paycheque.

What is the minimum wage in Quebec right now?

The general minimum wage in Quebec is $16.60 an hour, in effect since May 1, 2026. The table lists every minimum wage rate in the regulation: the general rate, the rate for employees who receive tips, and the two piece rates for berry pickers.

Quebec minimum wage rates in 2026

How to read this table: rates as listed by the CNESST and in sections 3, 4 and 4.1 of the Regulation respecting labour standards on October 8, 2026. The CNESST gives May 1, 2026 as the start date for the general and tipped rates.

Rate	Minimum	Who it applies to	Regulation
General minimum wage	$16.60 per hour	Most employees, full time or part time, including people paid by the piece or on commission	Section 3
Minimum wage for employees who receive tips	$13.30 per hour	Employees who ordinarily receive tips and work in a restaurant (counter-service and fast-food excluded), a meal delivery or take-out business, a place serving alcohol for consumption on site, or tourist accommodation including a campground	Section 4
Raspberry pickers (piece rate)	$4.93 per kilogram	Employees assigned exclusively, during a pay period, to non-mechanized raspberry picking	Section 4.1
Strawberry pickers (piece rate)	$1.32 per kilogram	Employees assigned exclusively, during a pay period, to non-mechanized strawberry picking	Section 4.1

Three points from the CNESST frame how the general rate works:

Full time or part time makes no difference. Workers are entitled to the minimum whether they work full time or part time, and an employer cannot pay a lower hourly wage than it pays others doing the same tasks in the same establishment simply because someone works fewer hours a week.
Benefits do not replace wages. The employer must pay at least the minimum even when the worker gets benefits such as a car or accommodation.
Higher wages do not move automatically. When the minimum rises, an employer is not obliged to adjust a wage that is already above the new minimum.

How much is minimum wage per week and per year in Quebec?

At $16.60 an hour, a 40-hour week pays $664 before deductions, which works out to $34,528 a year or about $2,877.33 a month. The table covers common schedules at both hourly rates. The tipped column is the wage floor only: tips come on top of it.

Hours a week	Weekly at $16.60	Monthly at $16.60	Yearly at $16.60 (52 weeks)	Weekly at the $13.30 tipped rate, before tips
20	$332	$1,438.67	$17,264	$266
25	$415	$1,798.33	$21,580	$332.50
30	$498	$2,158	$25,896	$399
35	$581	$2,517.67	$30,212	$465.50
37.5	$622.50	$2,697.50	$32,370	$498.75
40	$664	$2,877.33	$34,528	$532

The yearly figures assume 52 paid weeks at the same hours and no overtime. They are gross amounts: federal and Quebec income tax, Quebec Pension Plan contributions and other payroll deductions come off every paycheque. The hourly to salary calculator converts any wage into weekly, monthly and yearly pay, and the Quebec income tax calculator estimates what is left after tax.

Low full-time earnings can also qualify for federal credits paid on top of wages. The Canada Workers Benefit is a refundable tax credit for people with low employment income, and the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit is paid to lower-income households based on the tax return they file. For a sense of where the minimum sits against typical pay, the average salary in Canada guide breaks earnings down by province.

Who gets the tipped minimum wage in Quebec?

The minimum wage for employees who receive tips is $13.30 an hour, which is $3.30 an hour below the general rate, or about 80.12% of it. The CNESST is explicit that only people considered tipped workers can be paid this rate. A tipped worker is someone who usually receives tips and who works, full time or part time, in one of four settings:

a restaurant, except fast-food restaurants or those where customers choose the products and pay before eating;
an enterprise that sells, delivers or serves meals to be eaten off the premises;
a room where alcoholic beverages sold and consumed on site are served;
an establishment that offers tourist accommodations, including a campground.

A counter-service worker who occasionally gets a tip does not meet that test, and neither does a tipped worker in an industry outside the list. Those employees are owed the general rate of $16.60.

The tipped rate is a wage floor, not a total. Tipped workers must receive an hourly wage at or above the minimum they are entitled to, not including tips. Several protections apply to the tips themselves:

Tips belong to the worker who provided the service, whatever their salary.
The employer cannot keep any part of the tips, even as a disciplinary measure, for example when the cash register does not balance or a plate gets broken.
Tips collected by the employer, by card terminal or as a service fee added to the bill, must be handed over in full.
Tip sharing is the workers’ decision. An employer cannot impose a tip-sharing arrangement or intervene in setting one up, although it must respect an arrangement the workers have made.

For a hypothetical server working 30 hours a week, the wage floor is $399 a week before tips, against $498 at the general rate. The gap of $99 is what tips would need to cover for that server to match a general-rate worker on the same hours.

How are strawberry and raspberry pickers paid in Quebec?

Strawberry and raspberry pickers are paid on a piece work basis: at least $1.32 per kilogram of strawberries and $4.93 per kilogram of raspberries. The regulation applies these rates to employees assigned exclusively, during a pay period, to non-mechanized picking. Because pay follows weight, the CNESST says the employer weighs the containers each picker fills. A producer cannot choose to pay the hourly minimum instead of the piece rate.

At those rates, a picker reaches the equivalent of the general hourly minimum at roughly 12.58 kilograms of strawberries an hour or 3.37 kilograms of raspberries an hour. Faster pickers earn more than the hourly minimum.

There is a floor. When the state of the fields or the fruit, or another reason beyond the worker’s control such as a drought, lowers output, the picker must be paid at least the minimum hourly rate, and the employer pays the difference. The test is a comparison with other pickers: if most of them reach the minimum, the fields cannot explain one picker’s lower output, and that picker is paid the piece rate only.

The CNESST gives a worked example for each fruit:

Strawberries, with a top-up. A picker works 7 hours and picks 80 kilograms at $1.32, which is $105.60. The minimum for 7 hours is $116.20, and most coworkers are in the same position, so the employer adds $10.60.
Raspberries, no top-up. Two pickers each pick 35 kilograms at $4.93, which is $172.55. One took 7 hours ($24.65 an hour) and the other 9 hours ($19.17 an hour). Both are above the hourly minimum, so the piece rate stands.

Other farm workers are paid at least the general hourly rate. Their hours are paid at a single rate even after 40 hours in a week, because farm workers are excluded from the overtime premium.

Does minimum wage apply to piece work, commission and salaried jobs?

Yes. People paid by the piece or on commission must receive at least the equivalent of the minimum hourly rate for the time worked, and the employer makes up any shortfall. The CNESST’s examples show the calculation:

Piece work. A clothing presser paid $1 a piece presses 80 items in 8 hours, which is $80, or $10 an hour. The employer must make up $6.60 for each hour worked.
Commission only. A salesperson works 40 hours and earns $250 in commissions. The minimum for the week is $664, so the employer owes the $414 shortfall.
Car sales. Because sales swing from week to week in automotive sales, the minimum is evaluated every 4 weeks. Four weeks at $664 is $2,656; a salesperson with $1,000 in commissions is owed the other $1,656.
Flat-rate pay with variable hours. The weekly pay must at least equal the minimum wage for the hours worked, with any overtime hours counted at one and a half times the minimum.

Domestic workers are covered too: the CNESST says their basic working conditions are the same as those of all workers, including a wage equal to or higher than the minimum wage, and an employer cannot charge room and board to a domestic who lives or eats in the employer’s home.

Who is not covered by Quebec’s minimum wage?

The CNESST lists five groups the minimum wage rules do not apply to. The first four are set out in section 2 of the regulation:

students employed by a social or community non-profit organization, such as a summer camp or day camp (the minimum wage is mandatory if the camp is for profit);
trainees in a vocational training program recognized by a law;
trainees in a workplace integration program under the Act to secure handicapped persons in the exercise of their rights;
workers paid entirely on commission who carry out a commercial activity outside the workplace and whose working hours cannot be controlled;
athletes whose membership in a sports team is conditional on continued participation in an academic program.

Other groups fall outside Quebec’s labour standards law altogether. Self-employed workers are not employees. Sectors governed by the Canada Labour Code, such as banks (credit unions excepted), interprovincial road and rail transport, air transport and radio or television broadcasting, follow federal labour standards instead. Workers subject to the Construction Decree and senior managers are covered by only a few of the standards, which do not include the wage rules.

Quebec has no student or youth rate. A teenager with a first job is owed the same $16.60 as an adult, or $13.30 as a tipped worker in one of the four listed settings. A first job also requires a Social Insurance Number; the SIN application guide walks through the steps.

How do overtime and short shifts affect minimum wage pay?

The minimum wage is the floor for regular hours, and several Quebec rules add to it:

Overtime after 40 hours. For most workers the standard work week is 40 hours, and hours beyond it are paid at time and a half, a 50% increase on the usual hourly rate. At the general minimum that is $24.90 an hour, and at the tipped minimum $19.95. Quebec counts overtime by the week only; there is no daily trigger.
Who is excluded from the premium. The CNESST’s list includes managerial personnel, employees who work outside the establishment with hours that cannot be controlled, farm workers, fishing and fish-processing employees, and students employed by social or community non-profit organizations.
Longer standard weeks for a few jobs. The regulation sets 44 hours for watchmen employed by a surveillance service enterprise and 60 hours for other watchmen, 47 hours in forestry operations and sawmills, and 55 hours in remote areas and on the James Bay territory.
Leave instead of pay. Overtime pay can be replaced by paid leave only at the worker’s request or under a collective agreement or decree, and the leave is also counted at 1.5 times the overtime hours.
The 3-hour indemnity. A worker who reports for a usual shift that the employer cuts short is owed an indemnity equal to 3 hours’ pay, including the estimated tips for that time. It also applies when staff are called in outside their usual schedule for less than 3 hours. It is not owed in a case of force majeure such as a fire, or for jobs hired for periods under 3 hours, such as school bus drivers.
Time that counts as work. Trial and training periods required by the employer, required travel, and being asked to arrive 10 or 15 minutes early or to stay late are all paid time. Breaks are not mandatory, but any break the employer grants is paid. After 5 consecutive hours of work, an unpaid 30-minute meal break must be granted.

For a hypothetical employee at the general minimum who works 45 hours in a week, the pay is at least $788.50, not $747. And an employee sent home by the employer after 1 hour of a scheduled shift is owed at least $49.80 at the general minimum.

What can an employer deduct from minimum wage pay in Quebec?

Meals and accommodation can be charged only when the working conditions require the employer to provide them, and only up to the maximums in section 6 of the regulation. Unlike most deductions, these do not need the worker’s written authorization.

Maximum meal and accommodation charges under Quebec labour standards

How to read this table: amounts as listed by the CNESST and in section 6 of the Regulation respecting labour standards on October 8, 2026. No other accommodation cost, such as access to a living room or an extra room, can be charged.

What the employer provides	Maximum charge
Meals	$2.73 per meal, up to $35.69 per week
A room	$34.32 per week
A dwelling where the room accommodates 4 or fewer workers	$61.75 per week
A dwelling where the room accommodates 5 or more workers	$41.19 per week

The weekly meal cap means the per-meal charge stops counting after about 13 meals in a week. Under the regulation, these amounts rise each time the general minimum wage rises, by the same percentage but no more than the change in the Consumer Price Index.

Other costs stay with the employer:

Special clothing. An employer that requires special clothing, such as black pants or a uniform, must provide it free to staff paid the minimum wage. A worker paid more can be asked to pay only down to the minimum: in the CNESST’s example, on a $17 hourly wage no more than $0.40 an hour can be deducted. Clothing with a company logo is free for everyone, whatever the wage.
Tools and materials. Material, equipment or merchandise required for the job must be supplied free to staff paid the minimum wage.
Operating costs. Deductions for the cost of running the business are prohibited. The CNESST’s examples are card-processing fees, and losses from shoplifting, accidental damage to equipment or cash register errors may also count as operating costs.

How does Quebec’s minimum wage compare with Ontario and Alberta?

Quebec’s general rate sits between the two. Ontario’s general minimum wage is $17.95 an hour from October 1, 2026, which is $1.35 an hour above Quebec. Alberta’s is $15 an hour, $1.60 below.

Rate	Quebec	Ontario (from Oct 1, 2026)	Alberta
General minimum wage	$16.60	$17.95	$15
Rate for tipped employees	$13.30	General rate applies	General rate applies
Student rate (under 18)	None	$16.90	$13
Full-time week, 40 hours at the general rate	$664	$718	$600
Full-time year, 2,080 hours at the general rate	$34,528	$37,336	$31,200

The structure differs as much as the numbers. Quebec is the only one of the three with a lower hourly rate for tipped employees: servers in Ontario and Alberta get the general rate, and tips do not count toward it in either province. Ontario and Alberta both have student rates for workers under 18, which Quebec does not. And Alberta counts overtime after 8 hours in a day as well as by the week, while Quebec counts it only by the week. The Ontario minimum wage guide and the Alberta minimum wage guide cover those provinces’ rates and rules in full, and the Quebec money guide covers provincial benefits, taxes and living costs in one place.

When will Quebec’s minimum wage go up again?

No later rate has been published as of October 8, 2026. The CNESST wages page shows $16.60 and $13.30 as the current rates, in effect since May 1, 2026, and gives no future rate or date.

The rate is set in section 3 of the Regulation respecting labour standards, so a change comes as a government order in council amending that section, followed by an update to the CNESST website. The notes under section 3 on LégisQuébec list one amending order every year from 2006 to 2026. That makes yearly changes the pattern, but an increase is official only once the order is published. The CNESST pages and the consolidated regulation show current rates only, not past ones, so this page does not carry a rate history. It is checked against the CNESST and will be updated when a new rate is published.

What can you do if you are paid less than minimum wage in Quebec?

The official route is a wage complaint with the CNESST. Step by step:

Check the numbers. The employer must hand over a pay slip at each pay, showing the hours paid at the regular rate, overtime hours and the rate applied to them, gross wages, deductions, net wages and reported tips. The CNESST’s MaPaye app records hours worked so they can be compared with the pay slip.
Talk to the employer. The CNESST suggests asking to meet the employer first to clarify the situation; that often settles the disagreement.
Gather records. Pay slips or bank statements for the period, a record of hours worked, any tips register or statement, and messages exchanged with the employer about the problem.
Start the complaint online. The CNESST’s File a complaint questionnaire checks whether the complaint is admissible and leads to the official form. The general information line is 1 844 838-0808, open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Watch the deadline. A worker has 1 year from the time the amounts are due to file a wage complaint.
Follow the process. If the complaint is admissible, the CNESST asks the employer to pay. If the employer refuses, an investigation follows; when the complaint is founded, the CNESST sends a claim and the employer has 10 days to pay. Unresolved files go to a CNESST lawyer, and the worker pays no fees for that representation. A decision that a complaint cannot proceed can be contested within 30 days.

A complaint is possible only when the worker is an employee under the Act respecting labour standards and has no other recourse under a collective agreement or another law.

What are the common mistakes with Quebec minimum wage?

Paying the tipped rate outside the four listed settings. The $13.30 rate is reserved for people who usually receive tips in restaurants (not fast-food or counter service), meal delivery and take-out, licensed rooms and tourist accommodation.
Counting tips toward the wage. The hourly wage must reach the applicable minimum before tips, and tips belong to the worker.
Assuming a student rate exists. Quebec has none; the only student exception is work for a social or community non-profit organization such as a camp.
Leaving piece-rate or commission pay below the hourly equivalent. The employer owes the difference for the time worked.
Expecting a berry top-up in every case. The top-up to the hourly minimum applies only when the state of the fields or fruit, or another reason beyond the picker’s control, lowered output.
Charging minimum wage staff for uniforms or tools. Required clothing and equipment are free for anyone paid the minimum wage.
Waiting too long to complain. The window closes 1 year after the amounts became due.

Frequently asked questions

What is the minimum wage in Quebec right now?

The general minimum wage in Quebec is $16.60 an hour, and the CNESST states that this rate has been in effect since May 1, 2026. It applies whether a person works full time or part time. Employees who receive tips have a separate minimum of $13.30 an hour, and strawberry and raspberry pickers are paid by the kilogram. These are the rates listed by the CNESST on October 8, 2026.

When did Quebec's minimum wage last go up?

The current rates took effect on May 1, 2026, according to the CNESST wages page. On that date the general rate became $16.60 an hour and the rate for employees who receive tips became $13.30 an hour. The CNESST pages and the consolidated regulation do not list earlier rates, so this page does not publish a history table.

Is Quebec's minimum wage going up again?

No later rate appears on the CNESST website or in the Regulation respecting labour standards as of October 8, 2026. The rate changes only when the Quebec government amends section 3 of that regulation by order in council. The regulation's own notes list one amending order every year from 2006 to 2026, so yearly changes have been the pattern, but nothing is official until it is published.

What is the minimum wage for tipped employees in Quebec?

The minimum wage for employees who receive tips is $13.30 an hour, before tips. Only people who usually receive tips can be paid this rate, and only in four settings: a restaurant (fast-food and pay-before-eating counters excluded), a business that sells, delivers or serves meals to be eaten off the premises, a room where alcohol is served for consumption on site, and tourist accommodation, including a campground.

Do tips count toward minimum wage in Quebec?

No. The CNESST says tipped workers must receive an hourly wage equal to or higher than the minimum rate they are entitled to, not including tips. A tip belongs to the worker who provided the service. The employer cannot keep any part of it, even as a disciplinary measure, and cannot impose a tip-sharing arrangement on staff.

How much is minimum wage per week in Quebec?

The CNESST's own example multiplies 40 hours by $16.60 to get $664 a week before deductions. Shorter schedules scale down in proportion, and the table on this page covers 20 to 40 hours a week with monthly and yearly figures. Income tax, Quebec Pension Plan contributions and other payroll deductions come off the gross amount, so take-home pay is lower.

Is there a student minimum wage in Quebec?

No. The Regulation respecting labour standards sets a general rate, a rate for employees who receive tips and piece rates for berry pickers, with no separate student or youth rate. One exception works the other way: students employed by a non-profit social or community organization, such as a summer camp or day camp, are excluded from the minimum wage standard altogether. The minimum wage is mandatory if the camp is for profit.

How much do strawberry and raspberry pickers get paid in Quebec?

Strawberry pickers are paid at least $1.32 per kilogram and raspberry pickers at least $4.93 per kilogram. The rates cover employees assigned exclusively to non-mechanized picking during a pay period. If the state of the fields or the fruit, or another reason beyond the picker's control, pulls earnings below the hourly minimum, the employer pays the difference up to $16.60 an hour.

Does minimum wage apply to commission and piece work in Quebec?

Yes. People paid by the piece or on commission must receive at least the equivalent of the minimum hourly rate for the time worked, and the employer pays any shortfall. In the CNESST's example, a commission-only salesperson who works 40 hours and earns $250 in commissions is owed a further $414 to reach $664. The one exception is a worker paid entirely on commission who works outside the workplace with hours that cannot be controlled.

Who is not entitled to minimum wage in Quebec?

The CNESST lists students employed by a social or community non-profit organization, trainees in a vocational training program recognized by law, trainees in a workplace integration program for persons with disabilities, workers paid entirely on commission who work outside the workplace with uncontrollable hours, and student athletes whose team membership depends on staying in an academic program. Self-employed workers and federally regulated sectors such as banks fall outside Quebec's labour standards law.

How does Quebec's minimum wage compare with Ontario and Alberta?

Quebec's general rate of $16.60 an hour sits between the two. Ontario's general minimum wage is $17.95 an hour from October 1, 2026, and Alberta's is $15 an hour. Quebec is the only one of the three with a lower hourly rate for tipped employees; Ontario and Alberta pay servers their general rate. Ontario and Alberta both have student rates, which Quebec does not.

What can a worker do if they are paid less than minimum wage in Quebec?

The CNESST suggests meeting the employer first to clarify the situation. If that fails, a wage complaint can be started with the CNESST's online File a complaint questionnaire. The deadline is 1 year from the time the amounts are due. The CNESST can claim the unpaid wages from the employer, and a worker represented by a CNESST lawyer pays no fees. The general information line is 1 844 838-0808.

Rules, rates and sources

Last verified: September 29, 2026
Next scheduled check: December 30, 2026

Rule or table	In effect from	Verified
Québec minimum wage rates (general, tipped employees, strawberry and raspberry pickers) and related labour standards pay rules	May 1, 2026	October 8, 2026
Ontario minimum wage rates (general, student, homeworker, hunting/fishing/wilderness guide) and related ESA pay rules	October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027	September 29, 2026
Alberta minimum wage rates (general, student, salesperson, domestic employee), history since 2015 and related Employment Standards pay rules	October 1, 2018	September 30, 2026

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