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The value of the minimum wage went from $7.53 in 1965 to minimum wage as a percentage of earnings can be read as having three $9.83 in 1977, fell to $6.90 in 1995 and then rose steadily to $10.40 in peaks - in the early 1960s, the mid-1970s and the recent 2005-2014 2015. [...] New Brunswick's minimum The long-term trend when we compare the minimum wage to Statistics wage went from $5.84 in 1965 to $10.58 in 1977, fell to $7.14 in Canada's after-tax low income cut-off is the same as the trend in dollar 1988 and $7.42 in 2003 and rose to $10.40 in 2013 and $10.30 in amount. [...] The minimum wage in 1965 was 41.5 percent of The overall picture is the same for the minimum wage as a percentage average earnings, rose to 50.2 percent in 1977, declined to 36.9 percent of the LIM, in the red line in Figure 11. [...] Ontario's minimum wage rose from 76.6 percent of the after- tax low income cut-off for one person in Toronto in 1965 to 107.7 percent in 1976, falling to 77.8 percent in 1983, increasing to 101.0 MANITOBA percent in 1994 and 1995, slipping to 86.1 percent in 2003 and rising Figure 21 plots the trend in the minimum wage in Manitoba, shown in to 109.5 percent of the low income line in 2010 - the pea [...] It rose from $5.65 in 1965 to $11.20 in 1976, fell to $7.42 in 1994 and rose to a 73.4 percent in 1965 to 103.4 percent in 1976, fell to 82.7 percent in plateau of $10.72 in 2013 to $10.70 in 2015.