Complete Guide to Hiring in PEI

Expanding your team in PEI? Great choice! Prince Edward Island (PEI) is Canada’s smallest province by population and geography – and that makes it an undervalued talent resource. Before you get started on hiring your first PEI employee, download our guide to hiring, payrolling and managing employees in the province.

Our guide provides a thorough overview of the PEI talent market, as well as a deep dive into its payroll, tax, and employment rules. We ensure you have the payroll basics you’ll need to get started, and the understanding of federal and provincial employment laws to make the right decisions along the way.

Download our Guide to learn:

  • Minimum wage and overtime wage rules
  • Employer taxes and employee taxes
  • Onboarding and termination guidelines
  • Maternity, paternity and parental leave rules 
  • The best benefits to offer your PEI employees
  • Key PEI employment laws

Quick PEI Facts

PEI is known primarily for being the setting of the popular Anne of Green Gables books and producing exceptional potatoes. But PEI has more to offer than that, including an underappreciated talent market!

Candidates in this densely populated province are used to travelling out of the province for work and to working remotely for major global companies. Rapidly increasing costs of living in the rest of the country have also driven migration from the rest of the country of highly skilled workers, who bring remote jobs with them.

  • Official Language: English
  • Common Languages: English, French
  • Main Industries: Agriculture, tourism, fishing
  • Time Zones:  Atlantic Standard Time (AST)
  • Competitive Advantage: Low cost of living, underemployed workforce

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Canadian Payroll Services is an Employer of Record (EOR) focused on connecting Canadian talent with global business. We make it possible for global businesses of all sizes to hire remote workers in Canada without creating a local entity.

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