💼 Hiring & Wage Subsidy Grants 2025

Organization: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Amount: Up to $15,000

Helps small and medium-sized businesses adopt digital technologies to grow their businesses, compete in the global marketplace, and create jobs.

Organization: National Research Council Canada

Amount: Up to $1 million

Provides advice, connections and funding to help Canadian small and medium-sized businesses increase their innovation capacity and take ideas to market.

Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada

Amount: Up to $25,000

Helps employers create quality work experiences for youth while addressing their human resource needs.

Organization: Government of Ontario

Amount: Up to $10,000 per employee

Provides direct funding to employers to train their employees. Employers can receive up to $10,000 per person for training costs.

Organization: Government of British Columbia

Amount: Up to $10,000 per employee

Provides funding to help employers train their workforce and improve productivity through cost-shared grants.

Organization: Government of Alberta

Amount: Up to 20% tax credit (on eligible R&D)

Supports companies that create jobs in innovation-focused industries in Alberta through a tax credit on incremental R&D expenditures.

Organization: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Amount: Up to $500,000

Supported community-led projects that create jobs and economic opportunities in communities across Canada (program now closed).

Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada

Amount: Varies

Supports skills development and employment training for Indigenous peoples through funding agreements with Indigenous service delivery organizations across Canada.

Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada

Amount: Up to $7,000 per placement

Supports work-integrated learning opportunities for post-secondary students by providing wage subsidies to employers who create co-op placements in STEM and business fields (e.g., through partner delivery organizations).

Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada

Amount: Up to 100% wage subsidy (minimum wage)

Provides wage subsidies to help employers create summer job opportunities for youth (students) across Canada, particularly in not-for-profit organizations, public-sector employers, and small businesses.

Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada

Amount: Up to $5 million

Supports training and skills development for jobs in the green economy and clean technology sectors, often through wage subsidies for youth in environmental roles (delivered via various partner organizations).

Organization: Government of Alberta

Amount: Up to $5,000 per employee (or $10,000 for unemployed trainees)

Cost-sharing program that helps Alberta employers cover training costs for current and new employees to enhance productivity. Replaced the Canada-Alberta Job Grant in 2025.

Organization: Government of Saskatchewan

Amount: Up to 2/3 of training costs (max $10,000 per trainee)

Helps Saskatchewan employers train new or existing employees by funding a major portion of eligible training costs through a cost-sharing grant.

Organization: Government of Manitoba

Amount: Up to 2/3 of training costs (max $10,000 per employee)

Provides Manitoba employers with funding to train new or existing employees to meet business needs, covering a significant share of training expenses.

Organization: Government of Nova Scotia

Amount: Up to 2/3 of training costs (max $10,000 per trainee)

Provides funding to Nova Scotia employers to train workers (new or existing) for available jobs, sharing the cost of training to boost skills and productivity.

Organization: Government of New Brunswick

Amount: Up to 2/3 of training costs (max $10,000 per trainee)

Helps New Brunswick employers offset the cost of training for new or existing employees by providing a grant for a portion of approved training expenses.

Organization: Government of Prince Edward Island

Amount: Up to 2/3 of training costs (max $10,000 per trainee)

Provides financial assistance to PEI employers to deliver training for new or existing employees, sharing the training cost to help develop worker skills.

Organization: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

Amount: Up to 2/3 of training costs (max $10,000 per individual)

Helps Newfoundland and Labrador employers provide training to new or existing employees by sharing the costs of training investments through a grant.

Organization: Government of the Northwest Territories

Amount: Up to $6,000

Provides funding for micro-businesses in the Northwest Territories to assist with start-up and operational costs.

Organization: Prosper NWT

Amount: Up to $2,600 (plus potential top-up)

Offers contribution funding to eligible NWT businesses to advance their digital projects, such as website development, e-commerce adoption, and setting up online payment systems.

Organization: Government of Alberta - Indigenous Relations

Amount: $150,000 to $750,000

Provides grants to support capital costs for Indigenous community-owned economic development projects in Alberta, aiming to grow businesses and create employment.

Organization: Government of Ontario

Amount: Up to 33% of costs, to a max of $2.5 million

Provides financial support to help small-to-medium sized life sciences enterprises (SMEs) in Ontario scale up, commercialize new products, and build domestic manufacturing capacity.