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Median pay in BC for each occupation (NOC 2021 code), as published in Job Bank's 2025 wage data (Government of Canada open data). Search for the NOC code to check a figure (use the "British Columbia" row, not a sub-region). These are wages of employees only, from Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey, so self-employed people (e.g. lawyers or contractors with their own practice) are not included. Hourly medians are multiplied by 2,080 hours (40 h × 52 weeks). Real estate agents are mostly self-employed, so for them Job Bank publishes an annual median from the 2021 Census instead ($58,400), which includes part-time agents. Doctors are different: Job Bank's doctor figures are a separate CIHI/CMA tabulation whose wide spread (for family doctors: low $56,864, median $160,960) suggests part-time physicians are included, so they likely understate full-time pay. Doctor rows instead use CIHI's average gross clinical payment per full-time-equivalent BC physician (National Physician Database 2023–2024, Table A.7, XLSX). They then subtract average practice costs (staff, rent, equipment) as reported in the CMA Physician Workforce Survey 2017: 27% for family doctors and 22% for other specialists, as cited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (PDF). These are national 2017 averages, and practice costs vary a lot between specialties, so treat the specialist and surgeon figures as rough. CIHI's rows are matched to the closest NOC codes: "Family medicine" to 31102 and "Surgical specialties" to 31101. CIHI cautions that per-physician figures are less reliable where many doctors are paid outside fee-for-service, as under BC's family-doctor payment model introduced in 2023. Then every figure is multiplied by the change in BC's all-items consumer price index (Statistics Canada table 18-10-0004-01, vector v41692462) from its reference period to : the CPI factor is the 2026 average divided by the average over the reference period (calendar 2023 and 2024 for most Job Bank wages, 2021 for real estate agents; April 2023 to March 2024 for CIHI). Elected office uses the official annual salary in effect from April 1, 2026, which is already in 2026 dollars, so it gets no CPI adjustment: an MLA's basic compensation of $122,042.91, plus the Premier's additional salary of $109,838.62 (90% of basic), per the Legislative Assembly of BC; an MP's sessional allowance of $217,700, plus the Prime Minister's additional salary of $217,700, per the House of Commons. Expense allowances and other extra pay (e.g. for committee roles) are not included. Worked example, registered nurse: $47.58/h × 2,080 = $98,966; × 1.059 = $104,800. Family doctor: $366,972 × (1 − 0.27) = $267,890; × 1.066 = $285,500.

Percentiles rank an income against all BC tax filers, including retirees, students and part-time workers. Income is total income, including capital gains. Most points are the share of filers below each income range boundary in the CRA 2024 BC table (number of returns, item 3, summed over the ranges below the boundary, divided by the total). Above $100k, CRA's ranges are wide ($100k, $150k, $250k), so the top 10%, 5%, 1% and 0.1% thresholds from Statistics Canada table 11-10-0056-01 (2023, BC) are added in between. Every point is adjusted to 2026 dollars with BC's all-items consumer price index: the 2026 average so far divided by the full-year average of the source year (× 1.046 for 2024, × 1.0732 for 2023). Between points, ranks are interpolated on a logarithmic income scale (straight-line from $0 to the first point), so treat them as close estimates. Ranks are rounded down ("More than 49%" for 49.9%) and "Top" shares rounded up, so a rank is never overstated. About 4% of BC filers report no income at all, so ranks below about $5,000 are understated.