Your dealing with forecasts . This is the reality of multiple or expedient minimum wage increases . Minimum wage increase wage matches inflation 006 x 2014001 article 14035 eng . htmMinimum wage increases since the 1970 ' s in Canada has see no appreciable change in purchasing power . Minimum wage increases do not improve the bottom . They squeeze the middle . Non minimum wages have failed to keep up with i n f l a t i o n f i n a n c e h a v e y o u r w a g eskeptupwithinflationThis is the harsh reality minimum wage increases do not make people richer . They increase the pool of people which are in the lowest earning bracket . You have a real world example with data in a socially similar group which has similar demographics for age , sex and values . The only significant difference between Canada and the US is in post secondary completion rates .