'The living wage on the Sunshine Coast is now astonishingly high at $24.30 an hour, which is a 22.8 percent increase ($4.51) from last year, when a full report was published by the Sunshine Coast Foundation. This is $7.55 higher than minimum wage in B.C. ($16.75), and one of the highest living wage rates in the province.'
BC Housing defines affordable housing as 'when 30 per cent or less of your household's gross income goes towards paying for your housing costs.' By that logic (and using very basic math), someone making $24.30 an hour would ideally pay $1,020.60 or less in housing per month.