SRC Quick Fact
Higher Pay Tops List of Benefits

Seven in ten (69%) Canadians mentioned that ‘higher pay’ was among their top-three benefits they prefer to see when negotiating a new employment contract. Other benefits were ranked as follows:

  Better health and benefits coverage
35%
  
  Cash bonus or profit sharing incentives
34%
  
  Longer vacation time
26%
  
  Opportunity for advancement
23%
  
  Company matched RRSPs’
22%
  
  Opportunity for increased work/life balance
20%
  

Source: Ipsos-Reid survey, February 25, 2008