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Record 1 2009-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
CONT

The average annual salary received or deemed to have been received by the contributor during the period of five successive years of pensionable service during which his salary was highest.

CONT

For the purposes of the revised system of tax assistance for retirement saving, the average wage in a year will be the sum of the average weekly earnings levels in each month of the twelve-month period ending on June 30th of the immediately preceding year. (Statistics Canada, Catalogue 72-002, Table 2.1, Average Weekly Earnings for All Employees, Industrial Aggregate).

OBS

Term applied to the public service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
CONT

Traitement annuel moyen que le cotisant a reçu ou est réputé avoir reçu durant les cinq années successives de service ouvrant droit à pension où son traitement fut le plus élevé.

CONT

Aux fins du système révisé d'aide fiscale à l'épargne-retraite, somme de la moyenne des gains hebdomadaires pour chaque mois de la période de douze mois qui se termine le 30 juin de l'année précédente. (Statistique Canada, catalogue 72-002, tableau 2.1, Rémunération hebdomadaire moyenne des salariés par activité économique).

OBS

traitement moyen : terme applicable à la fonction publique.

Key term(s)
  • gains moyens

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Remuneración (Gestión del personal)
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