![]() ![]() ![]() “People can’t afford to live in Vancouver now,” said Shaelen Morgan, owner of Crank Culture, another East Vancouver bike shop. “To be able to give anybody a living wage, that’s become a lot more difficult.” Photo by Nathan Griffiths / jpgįlat Fix isn’t the only bike repair shop in Vancouver concerned about staffing. Shaelen Morgan inside his bike repair business, Crank Culture, in East Vancouver. “It just makes it hard to do the right thing and pay a living wage.” “Commercial rents are shooting up, and there’s lots of other (costs) that aren’t just wages,” she said. Housing and food costs were the primary drivers of the increase, she said.įrench called the increase in housing prices “ridiculous”, but said it was far from the only cause of rising prices. The living wage is based on costs associated with raising two children in a family with two parents working full-time, and includes costs for clothing, food, housing, transportation, child care and more.įrench said Vancouver’s living wage jumped 17 per cent from last year, the single-largest increase since the organization started tracking cost-of-living data. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ post shared by Central Valley Flat Fix! current living wage in Metro Vancouver is $24.08 per hour, according to Anastasia French, provincial manager for the Living Wage for Families in B.C., a program of the Vancity Community Foundation.Westcoast Homes & Design Previous Issues.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info. ![]()
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