Average & Median Income in Alberta by Age

In 2020, the median total income in Alberta was $44,800 and the average was $60,850, among people aged 15 and over with income (Statistics Canada, 2021 Census). That compares with a national median of $41,200. The median was $53,200 for men and $38,400 for women. After adjusting for inflation, the median was $46,400 in 2015, so it fell 3% over five years.

The average sits above the median because a smaller number of high incomes pull it up — the guide to average income in Canada explains which figure to use.

How Alberta compares

Alberta has the highest median income of the ten provinces in every one of the five age bands, tied with Saskatchewan only among those 65 and older, where both sit at $36,000. The lead is widest at 45-54, where Alberta's median income of $60,800 compares with $56,800 in Ontario, the next-highest province in that band. Net worth does not follow. In every age band Alberta's median family net worth ranks third, behind British Columbia and Ontario, and at its 55-64 peak of $768,200 it trails Ontario's $1,118,600 and British Columbia's $1,299,900 by a wide margin. Alberta also stands apart on change over time: it is the only province whose median income was lower in 2020 than in 2015 after adjusting for inflation. Saskatchewan, its neighbour, posted the next-smallest change, a rise of 1.9 percent. Alberta has the widest gap between men's and women's median income of the ten provinces as well: its median for men is the highest of any province by a clear margin, while its median for women is tied with Saskatchewan's as the highest.