The Business Payroll Survey (Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours) is a monthly report that is requested by Statistics Canada. It provides statistical information on the total number of hourly and salaried employees paid, hours worked, earnings, and payrolls at industrial, provincial, and territorial levels.

All earnings with a classification of "Earnings" are represented in the values for payments made in the last pay period in the month. All earnings with a classification of "Supplemental" are represented in the Special Payments sections.

The following options are available for generating this report:

• Reference Month

• GRE

• Province or Location

• Province to be reported

• Location to be reported

Creating a Business Payrolls Survey

You run the Business Payrolls Survey from the Submit Requests window.

   To create a Business Payrolls Survey:

1. Select the Business Payrolls Survey in the Name field.

2. Click on the parameters field if the Parameters window does not automatically open.

3. Select the Reference Month: The month to include in this report.

4. Select the GRE or leave blank to process all GREs.

5. Province or Location: Select province to report by province or location to report by location.

6. Province: Select the applicable province if province was selected in the above parameter.

7. Location: Select the applicable location if the location was selected in the above parameter.

8. Click OK and then Submit.