What Your Hourly Wage Actually Pays in New Brunswick
New Brunswick’s minimum wage is $15.90 an hour, adjusted every 1 April against the provincial Consumer Price Index. A full-time worker on it keeps $13.16 an hour after deductions.
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What an hour of your time is actually worth
New Brunswick
You keep
$14.36
an hour, after deductions
Quoted $17.60 · you lose $3.24 an hour · keep 81.6%
That is $1,148.98 every two weeks, from $1,408.00 gross.
Off one cheque, then the year
- Federal tax $86.63
- New Brunswick tax $73.67
- CPP $75.77
- EI $22.95
- Gross a year $36,608
- Deductions a year $6,735
- Net a year $29,873
That is $1.70 an hour above the New Brunswick minimum of $15.90.
$14.36 an hour after deductions, from $17.60 gross. $29,873 a year.
Deductions take $3.24 of every hour you work. If payday is still a way off, NotchUp can advance up to $1,500 of wages you have already earned for a $5 flat fee.
See what you could advance- $13.16kept from $15.90
- 82.8%of the quoted rate
- $27,370a year at 40 h/week
An April adjustment, tied to prices
New Brunswick moved to automatic indexation rather than periodic political decisions. The rate changes each 1 April by the previous year’s change in the New Brunswick Consumer Price Index, which took it to $15.90 in April 2026.
Indexation removes the long freezes that leave a floor stranded — Alberta’s rate has not moved since 2018 for exactly that reason — but it also means the floor never gains ground, only holds it.
The take-home at the floor
Forty hours a week at $15.90 is $33,072 a year gross, $27,370 net, and $13.16 for each hour worked.
You keep 82.8% of the rate. The other $2.74 an hour is federal tax, New Brunswick tax, CPP and EI — none of which appear in a wage offer.
A single general rate
New Brunswick applies one general minimum wage. There is no separate student rate and no lower rate for workers who receive tips, so a server and a warehouse worker share the same floor.
Different rules apply to a small number of categories such as certain agricultural and construction arrangements, but for ordinary hourly employment the general rate is the minimum.
What an indexed increase is really worth
When the April adjustment raises the floor, the announced figure is gross. Federal tax, New Brunswick tax, CPP and EI all apply to the increase, so the amount that reaches your account is smaller than the headline.
At this income roughly 83 cents of each additional dollar survives the deductions. An indexed rise designed to match inflation therefore lands slightly behind it once payroll has finished.
Frequently asked questions
What is $15.90 an hour after taxes in New Brunswick?
About $13.16 an hour at 40 hours a week — roughly $27,370 a year net from $33,072 gross.
When does New Brunswick’s minimum wage change?
Each 1 April, indexed to the provincial Consumer Price Index for the previous year.
Do servers get a lower minimum wage here?
No. New Brunswick has one general rate that applies regardless of tips.
Is this what my employer will actually withhold in New Brunswick?
It uses the same CRA payroll formulas your employer's software does, so the statutory lines should match closely. Differences usually come from a TD1 claim other than the basic amount, or from workplace deductions this cannot see.
How many hours a week should I enter?
Your usual paid week. Hours change the answer twice over: they scale the total, and they move how much of your income reaches the higher tax brackets, so 20 hours is not simply half of 40.
Sources
Every rate, threshold and formula on this page was verified against these primary sources. If a figure here disagrees with one of them, the source is right and we want to know.