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On an $80,000 salary, Nunavut ranks #1 of 13 provinces and territories for take-home pay in 2026, keeping $62,001 after federal tax, territorial tax, CPP and EI.
Take-home pay in Nunavut at every salary level
Nobody is paid an "average". Here is what specific salaries actually leave in Nunavut for the 2026 tax year — federal tax, provincial tax, CPP/CPP2 and EI, for a single employee with no extra credits.
| Gross salary | Take-home (year) | Per month | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| $40,000 | $33,574 | $2,798 | 83.9% |
| $60,000 | $48,509 | $4,042 | 80.8% |
| $80,000 | $62,001 | $5,167 | 77.5% |
| $100,000 | $76,337 | $6,361 | 76.3% |
| $150,000 | $110,006 | $9,167 | 73.3% |
Notice how the share you keep falls as the salary rises: that is Canada's progressive tax system working as designed. At $40,000 you keep 83.9%; at $150,000 you keep 73.3%.
Wage data for Nunavut
Statistics Canada does not publish median wages by industry for the territories in Table 14-10-0064-01, so this guide does not estimate them. The take-home figures below come from the 2026 tax rules, which do apply.
How Nunavut compares with the rest of Canada
On an $80,000 salary, Nunavut ranks #1 of 13 provinces and territories for take-home pay in 2026.
| Rank | Province | Take-home on $80,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nunavut ← | $62,001 |
| 2 | British Columbia | $61,038 |
| 3 | Northwest Territories | $60,871 |
| 4 | Ontario | $60,744 |
| 5 | Yukon | $60,648 |
| 6 | Alberta | $60,409 |
Nunavut is the highest in the country on that salary. The next province keeps $61,038, a difference of $963 a year.
Take-home pay is only one side of a move, of course: rent, groceries and childcare vary as much as tax does. But it is the side most people guess at, and it is the side that can be calculated exactly.
Where people work in Nunavut
Most Nunavut employees are in Iqaluit. Wherever you are in the province, the provincial tax rules are the same — there is no city income tax anywhere in Canada, so your postal code changes your rent, not your deductions.
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Every figure above is a median or a computed example. Your own pay depends on your exact salary or hourly rate, overtime, shift premiums, RRSP contributions and benefits. The take-home pay calculator handles all of it for Nunavut and every other province, for the 2026 tax year, with no signup.
Wage figures: Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0064-01, median hourly wage of full-time employees, 2025, annualised at 2,080 hours. Take-home figures: CanPay Insights 2026 tax engine (federal and provincial income tax, CPP/CPP2, EI) for a single employee with no additional credits.
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