 |
|
|
|
|
Subscriber pages
 News Desk
Columnists
Editorial
Readers comment
Tenders
Demo pages Here's a sample of what only subscribers see Subscribe now Subscribe to both hardcopy or internet editions of NNSL publications Advertising Our print and online advertising information, including contact detail. |
Construction workers make less in 2010 Guy Quenneville Northern News Services Published Monday, April 11, 2011
Workers in the NWT construction industry earned an average of $1,243 a week, including overtime, last year, according statistics recently released to News/North by the NWT Bureau of Statistics.
That's down from $1,252 a week in 2009 but up from up from $1,228 a week in 2008. Construction workers in the NWT make $52 more a week than the average NWT worker. The average weekly pay for the territory's construction industry has gone up by 43 per cent since 2004, when workers earned $867 a week on average. Not including overtime, NWT construction workers made an average of $1,124 in 2010. "The overtime definitely makes a difference in the construction industry," according to Kate Odziemkowska, a labour market statistician with the NWT Bureau of Statistics.
|
