Saskatchewan Hourly to Salary Calculator 2026

Minimum wage in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan’s general minimum wage is $15.70 an hour, in effect since October 1, 2026. Saskatchewan sets its minimum wage with an indexation formula that gives equal weight to the province’s Consumer Price Index and average hourly wage. Changes are generally announced by June 30 and take effect on October 1.

From 2022 to 2024 the province set the formula aside for a market adjustment, raising the rate from $11.81 to $15 in three steps.

Source: Government of Saskatchewan – Minimum wage and reporting for duty pay; news releases (May 3, 2022; July 2, 2024; July 10, 2025; June 29, 2026); checked October 23, 2026.

Special minimum wages

Saskatchewan has one general minimum wage, with no separate student or liquor server rate.

A few groups don’t have to be paid the minimum wage at all, including farm, ranch and market garden labourers, some care providers in private homes, occasional babysitters, athletes while competing, and volunteers for non-profit organizations.

Pay for being at your employer’s disposal counts: time spent at required meetings, or getting ready, cleaning or closing up before or after a shift, must be paid.

Source: Government of Saskatchewan – Minimum wage and reporting for duty pay; checked October 23, 2026.

Overtime rules in Saskatchewan

Overtime is every hour over 8 in a day (over 10 if you’re scheduled for four 10-hour days) or over 40 in a week, whichever adds up to more. In a week with a public holiday, weekly overtime starts after 32 hours. The rate is at least 1.5 times your hourly wage, which includes commissions and other pay on top of your base rate.

Time off instead of pay. You can ask for an overtime bank, but your employer can’t make you agree to one. It must be in writing and signed, and each overtime hour banks 1.5 hours, taken as paid time off during your regular hours. Banked time not used within 12 months is paid out.

Averaging. With a modified work arrangement or an averaging permit, overtime starts after the daily limit in the arrangement (for example 12 hours) or the total hours for the averaging period, such as 80 hours over two weeks (72 if a public holiday falls in it).

Who’s different. Managers, licensed professionals who work independently, motor vehicle salespeople, travelling commission salespeople, logging and northern mineral exploration workers, and a few other groups aren’t covered by the overtime rules.

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

That’s 50 hours in the week. Daily overtime is 5 days × 2 hours = 10 hours; weekly overtime is 50 − 40 = 10 hours. Saskatchewan pays the larger, so 10 hours are overtime.

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

Source: Government of Saskatchewan – Overtime in a day versus overtime in a week; Overtime banks; Overtime exemptions; checked October 23, 2026.

If you’re sent home early in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan calls it reporting for duty pay: each time you physically report for work at your employer’s workplace, you must be paid at least 3 hours at your hourly wage, even if you work less. That includes showing up for a shift your employer cancelled without telling you.

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.

• Students during the school term, school bus drivers and school noon-hour supervisors have a 1-hour minimum instead. Post-secondary students get the regular 3 hours all year.
• It doesn’t apply when you’re called in for overtime: you get the overtime rate for the hours you work.
• On a public holiday you get whichever is more: reporting for duty pay, or 1.5 times your wage for the hours worked.

Source: Government of Saskatchewan – Minimum wage and reporting for duty pay; checked October 23, 2026.

Public holidays and holiday pay in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan has 10 public holidays:

• New Year’s Day
• Family Day
• Good Friday
• Victoria Day
• Canada Day
• Saskatchewan Day
• Labour Day
• Thanksgiving
• Remembrance Day
• Christmas Day

Who qualifies. There’s no minimum time on the job: a brand-new employee gets 5% of what they’ve earned so far. You do have to still be employed on the holiday.

Holiday pay. Public holiday pay is 5% of your wages in the 28 days before the holiday, including vacation pay and earlier public holiday pay in that time but not overtime. Hourly construction workers get 4% of their wages for the year instead.

If you work the holiday: 1.5 times your hourly wage for every hour you work, on top of your public holiday pay.

If it’s not one of your work days. Public holiday pay is still owed. Some employers offer the choice of the 5% pay or an extra day off with pay.

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30) isn’t a public holiday under The Saskatchewan Employment Act, though an employer or union agreement may give it.

If a business is normally closed on Sundays and New Year’s Day, Remembrance Day or Christmas falls on a Sunday, the Monday is the holiday. A holiday on a Saturday isn’t moved.

Source: Government of Saskatchewan – Paying employees for public holidays; List of Saskatchewan public holidays; checked October 23, 2026.

Vacation and vacation pay in Saskatchewan

• In a part year you earn 1.25 vacation days a month, still paid at 3/52 of what you earned.
• Vacation pay is paid before your vacation if you ask, or on a normal payday during it. If you don’t take the vacation, the pay is due within 11 months after you became entitled to it.
• If your job ends, unpaid vacation pay is due within 14 days. If the business is sold, your years with the old owner still count.

Source: Government of Saskatchewan – Annual vacation and vacation pay; Calculate vacation pay; checked October 23, 2026.