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.

• Apprenticeship Training Tax Credit
  Applies only to: Ontario

  You may qualify for an annual tax credit of up to $10,000 per qualifying apprentice to a maximum of $40,000 over a 48 month period.

• Business growth and competitiveness — Youth internships
  Applies only to: Ontario

  If your business is in Northern Ontario, you could get help to hire a recent graduate to work on your information and communications technology project.

• 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.

• Co-operative Education Tax Credit
  Applies only to: Ontario

  YYou may be eligible for a refundable tax credit of up to $3,000 if you hire an Ontario co-op student.

• 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.

• Employer signing bonus
  Applies only to: Ontario

  Find out if you qualify for a signing bonus when you hire a youth as a new apprentice in certain trades in Ontario.

• 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.

• Industry-Academic Collaboration Programs
  Applies only to: Ontario

  Learn about financing and support that may help you develop and commercialize innovative techniques, products and services in Ontario.

• Mitacs Accelerate

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

• Mitacs Enterprise
  Applies only to: Ontario

  You could receive funding to help pay the salary of a graduate with technical and business-management expertise for a competitive 6-month internship.

• Northern Ontario Development Program
  Applies only to: Ontario

  Apply for financing to grow your business in Northern Ontario.

• Northern Ontario Development Program — Business Growth and Competitiveness
  Applies only to: Ontario

  Find out how you could get funding to support your business activity in Northern Ontario.

• Ontario Exporters Fund
  Applies only to: Ontario

  Apply for funding to help you hire an export manager to develop an export plan for your existing business.

• Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit
  Applies only to: Ontario

  If you are an Ontario film or television producer, you may qualify for a refundable tax credit based on labour expenses for productions in Ontario.

• Ontario Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit
  Applies only to: Ontario

  You could be eligible for a tax credit toward the labour and marketing costs of your digital media production.

• Ontario Job Creation Partnerships
  Applies only to: Ontario

  If you are planning a new business project that benefits the community, you could be eligible to hire a subsidized job seeker.

• Ontario Labour Market Partnerships
  Applies only to: Ontario

  You can apply for funding to deal with labour force changes.

• 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.

• Summer Jobs Service (Northern Ontario)
  Applies only to: Ontario

  Find funding to hire a student for your Northern Ontario business this summer.

• Summer Jobs Service (Ontario)
  Applies only to: Ontario

  You can apply for a hiring incentive if you hire a student for a summer job placement.

• Youth Employment Program

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