Wage subsidies 

Are high wage expectations making you reluctant to put up that Help Wanted sign? A wage subsidy program can put the perfect employee within your reach.

• Apprenticeship Job Creation Tax Credit

  If you hire an apprentice, you could get a tax credit equal to 10% of that person's salary.

• Canada Summer Jobs

  If you hire students for the summer, this subsidy could help you cover 50% of their wages.

• Career Focus

  You could get money to help you hire and pay college or university graduates, if you can give them useful work experience.

• Connect Canada internships

  You could receive funding of $5,000 to help pay the salary of a graduate student or a post-doctoral fellow for 4 to 6 months to help with your advanced R&D project.

• Employment Integration Program for Immigrants and Visible Minorities (PRIIME)
  Applies only to: Québec

  You could receive a subsidy to hire immigrants and members of visible minorities to help them integrate into the labour market.

• Employment integration — Wage subsidies
  Applies only to: Québec

  Do you need financial support to hire employees? If so, this measure can help you.

• French in the Workplace Program
  Applies only to: Québec

  Get a tax credit by offering your employees free on-site French courses right in your workplace.

• High Demand Youth Internship Program

  If your business is in a high demand sector, you could be eligible to apply for a wage subsidy to hire and train youth to work for your business in the near future.

• Housing Internship Initiative for First Nations and Inuit Youth

  Your housing-related Aboriginal business may qualify for wage subsidies to hire and train First Nations or Inuit youths.

• Industrial R&D Fellowships Program

  You could get help to hire a PhD graduate to work on a research project in natural sciences or engineering for your business for 2 years.

• Industrial R&D Internship Program (IRDI)

  Your not-for-profit corporation could receive funding to create private sector research internships for science and technology graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

• Industrial Undergraduate Student Research Awards

  If you are a university student, you could gain research work experience in the natural sciences and engineering to complement your studies.

• Mitacs Accelerate

  Learn how you can expand your R&D potential by recruiting a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow to research your technology project.

• Science Horizons Youth Internship Program

  If your business or not-for-profit organization undertakes environmental science projects, you could receive up to $12,000 to hire an intern for at least six months.

• Science and Technology Internship Program

  If your business is in the geomatics, geology, mining, forestry or energy industry, you could get money to hire a recent graduate of natural sciences.

• Skills Link

  Need employees? You could receive money to hire and train a youth between the ages of 15 and 30 to work on your project.

• Support for hiring persons with disabilities
  Applies only to: Québec

  Thinking of hiring a person with a disability? If so, find out about financial options that can help you offer them a job.

• Support for hiring workers who have suffered employment injuries
  Applies only to: Québec

  You may be able to obtain a grant to hire workers who have suffered employment injuries.

• Tax credit for an on-the-job training period
  Applies only to: Québec

  Does your enterprise need a trainee? If so, you could qualify for a tax credit.

• Tax holiday for foreign researchers
  Applies only to: Québec

  If your business does scientific research and experimental development, you could obtain financial assistance to recruit foreign researchers.

• Youth Employment Program

  You could obtain financial assistance to hire a skilled post-secondary graduate to work on your innovative project.