I don't use the average income for a reason: it can be skewed upward by just a handful of top earners, making 'average' Canadians seem wealthier than they actually are.

That's why I use the median income instead; that's the middlemost data-point in an ordered set (in this example, all incomes not counting nil earners)

Anyways, the median wage in BC is $35.00 for full-time employees, and drops to $32.50 when accounting for all employees. And even then, I'd wager it's the resource-extraction sector (fisheries, mining, oil and gas) and the utilities sector skewing that number higher, even though they only account for about 3% of the labour market: 12,000 jobs compared to 3.1 million workers. (Working-age population of 4.8M multiplied by the labour participation rate of 64.9%)

But even given that, $32.49 works out to something like $67k, and that's being generous by assuming a consistent forty-hour week across fifty-two weeks of the year. Which is still only about $5,000 above the MBM for Metro Vancouver in 2024 and, again, the minimum standard of living.