**EMC's Labour Market Intelligence: 2022-23 Wage Increases** The majority of surveyed manufacturers (80%) expected that wages would increase, including 34% of surveyed manufacturers expecting wages to increase between 2 and 2.9%. The expectations around wage stagnation and increases vary somewhat across the country. In Western Canada, significantly more employers were expecting wages to not change (17%) as compared to employers in Ontario (10%). Quebec appears to be the region where wages may be expected to rise the most, with over 70% of respondents expecting wages to rise more than 2%. **EMC's Labour Market Intelligence: 2022-23 Recruitment Methods** Manufacturers provided insights into successful recruitment methods they employ when advertising job vacancies. Four in 10 manufactures (41%) indicated that they successfully advertised job vacancies on the Indeed online job board, making it the most common successful recruitment method, far ahead of employee referral program (19%), employment agencies (8%), and Job bank (5%), another online job board (see below). Traditional methods of posting jobs (for example newspaper ads, career fairs, and college/university job boards) were less commonly viewed as being much less successful (15% to 2 %). Read Full Report Below Document [GPS Foundation Report 2021-22.pdf](/sites/default/files/2022-09/GPS%20Foundation%20Report%202021-22.pdf)