Minimum Wage In Ontario 2024. On march 28th, 2024, the ontario government announced that the general minimum wage would increase from $16.55 per hour to $17.20 per hour, effective october 1st, 2024. Effective october 1, 2024, ontario will increase its minimum wage from $16.55 to $17.20 per hour, following the annual inflation adjustment.

Hence, the rate in effect before october 26, 2023 (likely around october 1, 2023), would represent the previous minimum wage rate. The minimum wage in ontario saw its first increase of 2024 on october 1, 2023, rising from $16.50 (the rate before 2022) to $16.55 per hour.