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December 06, 2021INCOMES OF IMMIGRANTS, 2009-2018 ADMISSION YEARS Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Immigrant Data reports on the median incomes of immigrants in Canada.
Many immigrants in earlier admission years experienced lower incomes compared with provincial or national medians. However, over time, there is a convergence of median immigrant incomes with median provincial incomes.
Nova Scotia resident immigrants from the 2009 admission year reported median total incomes of about 65% of the provincial median total income. By 2019, Nova Scotia resident immigrants from the 2009 admission year reported median total incomes that were 97.7% of the provincial median total income.
For more recent admission years (2017, 2018), the median total incomes of Nova Scotia immigrants was over 90% provincial median total income in the first year after admission.
Median employment income of immigrants residing in Nova Scotia now exceeds provincial median employment income for several admission years (2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017). For those in the 2018 admission year, median employment incomes of immigrants were almost the same (99.4%) as median employment incomes of all Nova Scotians in their first year of reporting employment income.
In 2019, immigrants residing in Nova Scotia from almost all admission years (except 2012) reported median total incomes that were closer to the provincial median than Canadian median immigrant total incomes were to the national median total income.
In 2019, immigrants residing in Nova Scotia from all admission years reported median employment incomes that were closer to the provincial median than Canadian median immigrant employment incomes were to the national median employment income.
Source: Statistics Canada. Table 43-10-0026-01 Income of Immigrant tax-filers, by immigrant admission category and tax year, for Canada and provinces, 2019 constant dollars; Table 11-10-0239-01 Income of individuals by age group, sex and income source, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas
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