More Canadian women join top one per cent while gap with poor grows: report
MONTREAL — More women are joining the one-per-cent club but still accounted for less than one-quarter of the country’s top earners in 2014, according to Statistics Canada.
Women made up 22 per cent of the top one per cent of tax filers in 2014 compared to 10 per cent in the early 1980s, said the agency’s Canadian Megatrends report released Friday.
The survey found that Canada had 268,500 tax filers in the top one per cent in 2014 earning at least $225,100, excluding government transfer payments.
Women further made up 15 per cent of the nearly 27,000 Canadians who earned at least $724,000, up from 10 per cent in 1982.