Cost-of-Living Statistics

 

The Salary Calculator at the Homefair.com web site lets you input a salary and two cities. It will then tell you how much you need to make in the second city to equal the income level of the first:
http://www2.homefair.com/calc/salcalc.html

Statistics Canada's family expenditure data provides average household expenditure on a variety of items by metropolitan area:

Average household expenditures by province:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/famil16a.htm

And by selected metropolitan areas
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/famil10a.htm

Average weekly food expenditure per household:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/famil27i.htm

You may also be interested in the following report.

A Regional Perspective on the Canada-U.S. Standard of Living Comparison
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ra01761e.html

(Compares provinces/states to a national standard of living index)
NB: This document does NOT include actual $ values. It is a relative comparison.

Also see: The Cost of Raising Children, 2002
http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/homeec/cba28s02.html

If you are looking for average household expenditures on specific goods and services see:

Canadian Market Estimates
http://www.gdsourcing.com /CMEinfo.htm


If you are looking for the cost of living increase please see the FAQ under Inflation Rate.

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