Quebec Hourly to Salary Calculator 2026

Minimum wage in Quebec

Quebec’s general minimum wage is $16.60 an hour, in effect since May 1, 2026. Quebec raises its minimum wage every May 1, usually announced in January. Government policy aims for a minimum wage of about 50% of the average hourly wage.

The May 2026 increase, 50 cents (3.11%), applies to about 258,900 workers, the government’s estimate when it was announced. Since May 2018 the rate has risen from $12.00 to $16.60.

If you already earn more than the minimum, your employer doesn’t have to raise your pay when it goes up.

Source: Gouvernement du Québec – Le taux général du salaire minimum passera à 16,60 $ l’heure le 1er mai 2026 (January 22, 2026); CNESST – Minimum wage; checked October 23, 2026.

Special minimum wages

• Tipped workers (restaurants other than fast food, meal delivery, bars, hotels and campgrounds): $13.30 an hour, before tips
• Raspberry pickers (paid by weight): $4.93 a kilogram
• Strawberry pickers (paid by weight): $1.32 a kilogram

The minimum wage doesn’t apply to students working for social or community non-profit organizations, trainees in recognized vocational or workplace-integration programs, and commission-only salespeople working outside the workplace whose hours can’t be controlled.

Benefits such as a car or housing from your employer don’t reduce the minimum wage you must be paid.

Source: CNESST – Wages: employees receiving tips; Minimum wage; Gouvernement du Québec news release (January 22, 2026); checked October 23, 2026.

Overtime rules in Quebec

Overtime is every hour over 40 in a week, even if your workplace’s normal week is shorter. There’s no daily overtime. Vacation and statutory holiday hours count as hours worked that week. You can refuse overtime beyond 2 hours over your usual day or 14 hours in 24, beyond 50 hours in a week, or if you weren’t told your schedule 5 days ahead (with some exceptions). The rate is time and a half: your regular hourly rate × 1.5. Night or evening shift premiums aren’t included in the rate.

Time off instead of pay. If you ask (or a collective agreement or decree provides for it), overtime can be replaced by paid leave at time and a half: 6 overtime hours become 9 hours off. It can also go into a time bank at your request.

Who’s different. Managers, farm workers, students at social or community non-profits, people working outside the establishment whose hours can’t be controlled, and fish processing and fruit and vegetable canning workers during harvest don’t get the overtime premium.

Worked example: five 10-hour days at $25.00 an hour

That’s 50 hours in the week. Only hours over 40 in the week count, so 50 − 40 = 10 hours are overtime, even though each day is 10 hours long.

That’s $125.00 more than the same hours at straight time.

Source: CNESST – Overtime; Right to refuse to work overtime; checked October 23, 2026.

If you’re sent home early in Quebec

Quebec’s 3-hour indemnity: if you report for your usual shift and your employer shortens it, you must be paid at least 3 hours’ pay, including the tips you’d likely have earned. The same applies if you’re asked to come in outside your usual schedule for less than 3 hours, even for a meeting.

Example: you earn $25.00 an hour and you’re sent home after 1 hour. You’re owed $75.00: 3 hours × your own $25.00 rate, not just the $25.00 for the hour you worked.

• It isn’t owed in a case of force majeure, such as a fire or a long power failure, or for jobs hired for under 3 hours such as school bus drivers, school safety patrollers and school supervisors.
• It doesn’t apply when you’re asked to stay late (for example, a 1-hour meeting right after your shift), or to short meetings that are a regular part of your schedule.

Source: CNESST – Time worked, breaks and 3-hour indemnity; checked October 23, 2026.

Statutory holidays and holiday pay in Quebec

Quebec has 8 statutory holidays:

• New Year’s Day
• Good Friday or Easter Monday (employer’s choice)
• National Patriots’ Day
• Quebec National Holiday (June 24)
• Canada Day (July 2 if July 1 is a Sunday)
• Labour Day
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas Day

Who qualifies. Everyone working full or part time qualifies, even if hired only a few days before, as long as you weren’t absent without a valid reason or permission on the work day before or after the holiday. For June 24 you only need to be employed that day. You don’t get it while on extended sick leave, unpaid or parental leave, or laid off.

Holiday pay. 1/20 of your wages in the 4 complete pay weeks before the week of the holiday, not counting overtime but including reported tips. Commission workers get 1/60 of the 12 weeks before.

If you work the holiday: Your wages for the day, plus either the holiday indemnity or another paid day off within 3 weeks before or after the holiday, at your employer’s choice.

If it’s not one of your work days. Your employer either adds the indemnity to that week’s pay or gives you a paid day off on a date you agree on. The same applies when the holiday falls during your vacation.

Remembrance Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation aren’t statutory holidays in Quebec, except for federally regulated workers.

An employer can’t change the date of a statutory holiday. June 24 has its own rules for the day off when it falls on a Sunday, a day off or during your vacation.

Source: CNESST – Statutory holidays in Quebec; Calculating the indemnity for a statutory holiday; checked October 23, 2026.

Vacation and vacation pay in Quebec

• Vacation is earned over a reference year, usually May 1 to April 30, and must be taken within the following 12 months.
• Quebec’s step to 3 weeks and 6% comes after 3 years of uninterrupted service. The 6% applies to the whole reference year in which you reach 3 years, including wages earned before that date.

Source: CNESST – Annual vacation; checked October 23, 2026.