Report will track pay for job-stayers and job-changers using real payroll data
ADP has announced it will begin publishing a new monthly labour market report tracking wage growth across Canada.
The report, called ADP Canada Pay Insights, is set to debut on Sept. 3, 2026, at 8:15 a.m. It will draw on anonymized payroll data from its client base, which the company says represents about one million workers. ADP describes the data set as high-frequency and drawn directly from actual payroll transactions, distinguishing it from surveys or estimates.
The company already runs a similar Pay Insights report in the United States, which tracks pay changes for job-stayers and job-changers using payroll data covering more than 14.8 million individual employees.
"As demographic change and AI advances reshape the Canadian economy, pay can serve as a barometer of labour market health," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP. "This new indicator, built on near-real-time payroll data, will track pay growth and worker mobility to gauge the strength and direction of the Canadian labour market."
Monthly pay insights
According to the release, each monthly report from ADP will include:
- the national median annual pay level for job-stayers
- the year-over-year percentage change in pay
- breakdowns of pay trends by industry, employer size, gender, age, and province
The report separates workers into two categories: job-stayers, defined as those who remained with the same employer over the prior 12 months, and job-changers, those who switched employers during that period. ADP says it will use a matched sample to follow individual, anonymized workers over a 12-month span in order to compare how pay changes for each group.
In the U.S. version of the report, ADP's data has recently shown job-changers earning noticeably more than job-stayers — for example, 6.6% year-over-year pay growth for job-changers versus 4.4% for job-stayers in both April and June 2026.
The company states that ADP Canada Pay Insights will be the only Canadian labour market report to use actual payroll transactions combined with individual matched employee tracking over time.
Statistics Canada publishes a Labour Force Survey, a monthly survey that measures the state of the Canadian labour market and is used, among other things, to calculate the national, provincial, territorial and regional employment and unemployment rates.
