Training and Labour, in a release.

"Many work in the service and retail sectors and are gaining the experience they need to succeed. These changes will give them a modest increase while keeping the viability of their employers in mind as well.”

The increase is based on a formula used since 2011 that links the general wage to annual increases in Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Alberta.

The province says the AWE rose 3.3 per cent in the last year, while the CPI rose 1.4 per cent.

"When Alberta’s high personal exemption and low tax rates are factored in, the new general minimum wage ranks second highest in Canada, after Ontario," said the province in a release.

Employers and employees with questions about minimum wages can contact theMore WA school students wear tattoos than their interstate colleagues, according to results from the recently-conducted CensusAtSchools project.

More than 2700 schools around Australia, and 294 in WA, took part in the on-line census.

The project was initiated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics earlier in the year to give students an introduction to statistics, with a view to raising awareness of the National Census on 8 August.

Seven per cent of WA students said they had tattoos, compared to four per cent nationally.

However, when it comes to music, wearing ear rings and dying their hair, it seems WA students are on a par with the rest of the country, though rap music doesn’t rate as highly in WA.

Only 62 per cent of WA students said rap was their favourite type