Ontario's minimum wage earners will be getting a little more on each paycheque starting Thursday.
The general minimum wage is going up by 25 cents an hour, to $11.25.
Minimum wage rates for certain jobs such as liquor servers, homeworkers and students are also increasing at the same time.
Still some are saying it’s not enough to get by.
“If you are a student I college or university, you have rent you have food working 40" hours a week you can't even survive you can't even get half of what you need,” says Mathew Ward.
The government says most minimum wage earners in the province work in accommodation and food, retail trade and agriculture.
“They have to work four hours to make an extra dollar, so to me it just doesn't seem significant. For a young person or any age person to start out at 11 dollars an hour it would be a little bit hard I think,” says Sam Pecorella, owner of Johny’s Pizza in Shelburne.
Minimum wage also increased in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador go into effect Oct. 1.
With files from The Canadian Press
