The average salary of Québec government employees stands at $60,909 in 2024, 11.4% less than the salary of other Québec employees working in organizations with 200 or more employees. 

By virtue of the law governing it, the Institut’s mission, among other things, is to compare the compensation of unionized employees in the Québec government with those of other employees in the province. Every year by November 30, the Institut is mandated to publish the results of this comparative analysis.

To shed light on its findings, in this report the Institut presents the methodology used to produce the comparison of remuneration. First, there is a brief history of how the analyses were conducted. Then there is a summary of the basic principles of the comparison, and the approach used is shown in parallel to that of three other recent studies on the topic. The goal is help readers gain a better understanding and interpretation of the various results and to provide nuance to the comments or critiques that may arise on the methodology chosen and the findings disseminated by the Institut.

"This document summarizes the directions and approaches chosen by the Institut for its project of selecting benchmark jobs to compare the compensation of Québec government employees. More precisely, it presents the methodology used for each of the two major selection steps, i.e. determining the number of benchmark jobs in each group (Québec government sub-sectors/categories) and choosing these jobs.

Two other documents have been published on this subject. The first one, La sélection des emplois repères : nouvelle classification, enjeux et plan d’action (published in October 2003), presents the project directions, objectives and steps. The second document, published in December 2005, is entitled Présentation de la structure d’emplois de l’administration québécoise et analyse du panier d’emplois repères avec des critères de représentativité d’ensemble."

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