Manitoba By the Numbers

$262,000 – average market income of the top 10% of Manitoba households with children (2014).

$4,500 – average market income of bottom 10% of Manitobans (2014).

$6,600 – average market income of bottom 10% of Canadians (2014).

$104,000 average family market income in Canada, which is $12,000 higher than the average
family market income in Manitoba at $92,000 (2014).

43% increase: average Manitoba market income increased this much between 1996 – 2014.

63% increase: highest decile of the population saw their market incomes increase 63%
between 1976 – 2014 in Canada.

20% decrease: lowest decile of the population saw their market incomes decrease 20%
between 1976 – 2014 in Canada.

$76,000 – median market income of a family in Manitoba.

60% - decrease share of income going to the bottom 60% of population declined between
1976 – 2014.

0.5% - income share of bottom end of income spectrum in 2011 – 2014. This fell from meager
1% in 1976-1979.

$6.2 billion – annual cost to the Canadian health care system of “excess burden of disease
attributable to health inequality”(Public Health Agency of Canada, 2016).

110 – number of Canadians who die prematurely every day due to income inequality
(Raphael & Bryant 2014).

Manitoba Inequality Update: Low Income Families Left Behind by Ian Hudson and Benita
Cohen. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/manitoba-inequali...