{"id":1590,"date":"2022-04-27T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/2022\/04\/27\/proof-point-low-income-canadians-to-feel-sharpest-sting-from-inflation-rate-hikes\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T04:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T04:00:56","slug":"proof-point-low-income-canadians-to-feel-sharpest-sting-from-inflation-rate-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/canadian-analysis\/featured-analysis\/insights\/proof-point-low-income-canadians-to-feel-sharpest-sting-from-inflation-rate-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>Proof Point:<\/b> Low income Canadians to feel sharpest sting from inflation, rate hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"disc pad-l\">\n<li>Rising prices and borrowing costs will impact all Canadian households\u2014but particularly those with lower incomes.<\/li>\n<li>A return of the overnight rate to 2% will hike average Canadian household debt payments by nearly $2000, or 15%, next year. <\/li>\n<li>But the debt service ratio of low income Canadians will rise much faster &#8211; at twice the speed of high income households through 2023.  <\/li>\n<li>$300 billion in pandemic savings could soften the blow\u2014but lower income earners hold less than half the savings of higher earners. <\/li>\n<li><b>The bottom line:<\/b> low income Canadians will be most squeezed by rate and price hikes\u2014a burden that will only grow heavier into 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h4>The debt story: COVID-19 boosted the debt held by Canadians<\/h4>\n<p>Mortgage debt not only surged during the pandemic, it exploded. As many Canadians sought more living space amid low borrowing costs, mortgages grew by an average $150 billion per year in 2020 and 2021\u2014almost doubling the annual growth rate between 2015 and 2019. By the end of 2021, mortgages accounted for over 70% of all household debt. By comparison, the amount of consumer credit (credit cards, personal loans, and lines of credit), declined in 2020.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/Chart-3-1600px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"942\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36736\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As interest rates march higher\u2014we expect the overnight rate to hit 2% by October, a projection that increasingly looks conservative\u2014borrowing costs for Canadians will also rise, leaving the average Canadian household to spend almost $2000 more in debt payments in 2023. This will erode spending power, especially for the lowest earning fifth of households which spend 22% of their after tax income on debt servicing (including mortgage principle and interest payments). By contrast, those in the highest income quintile spend just half of that amount. Lower income Canadians will also see their debt service ratio (the amount of disposable income needed to meet debt payments) increase much faster through 2023\u2014at twice the speed of the highest income households.<\/p>\n<h4>The savings story: low income households have a smaller cash cushion<\/h4>\n<p>The pandemic may have boosted debt but it also left Canadian households sitting on $300 billion in savings. That\u2019s a huge backstop\u2014enough to cover about a year and a half of total Canadian household debt payments. <\/p>\n<p>But those savings aren\u2019t evenly distributed. While the top income households (those earning ~$178,000 a year) retain almost a third of the total, the lowest income Canadians (earning ~$34,000 a year) hold less than a fifth. For these households, a large portion of excess savings wasn\u2019t socked away, but was used to pay down consumer debt. These households now have a much smaller cushion against rapidly rising borrowing costs. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/Chart-2-1600px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1359\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36738\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>The inflation story: surging prices will pinch these Canadians hardest<\/h4>\n<p>And rising debt payments aren\u2019t the only things biting into households\u2019 real income. Canada\u2019s March CPI reading hit 6.7%, with just about everything outside of clothing and footwear growing more expensive, more quickly. These price hikes will cut more deeply into the purchasing power of lowest income Canadians, who tend to spend a much larger share of their earnings on consumer purchases. <\/p>\n<p>In the current environment, pre-pandemic 2019 purchases would soak up 10% more these households\u2019 disposable income, compared to just 3.5% more for the highest income households. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/Chart-1-1600px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1049\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36737\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>Finding the sweet spot: aggressive rate hikes risk bigger slowdown<\/h4>\n<p>Tight labour markets will continue to push wages higher and together with the savings stockpile, this will sustain consumer spending in the near-term. But Canadians are already among the most indebted in the world. And even after accounting for wage growth, an accelerated increase in the overnight rate will push the share of disposable incomes spent on debt back over pre-pandemic levels. This increase, combined with soaring prices for everyday goods, will bite hard into the real earnings of lower income Canadians. <\/p>\n<p>But a more aggressive rate increase\u2014such as a hike above 3%, the top end of the estimated long-run \u2018neutral\u2019 range\u2014would tap the brakes on economic growth that\u2019s already being curbed by production capacity limits and labour shortages. The challenge for the Bank of Canada at this point in the economic cycle is to hike interest rates enough to rein in prices, relieving pressure on Canadians, without sparking a downturn. That will be no easy task. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Claire Fan<\/b> is an economist at RBC. She focuses on macroeconomic trends and is responsible for projecting key indicators on GDP, labour markets as well as inflation for both Canada and the US. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Nathan Janzen<\/b> is a member of the macroeconomic analysis group. His focus is on analysis and forecasting macroeconomic developments in Canada and the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Naomi Powell<\/b> is responsible for editing and writing pieces for RBC Economics and Thought Leadership. Prior to joining RBC, she worked as a business journalist in Canada and Europe, most recently reporting on international trade and economics for the Financial Post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising prices and borrowing costs will impact all Canadian households\u2014but particularly those with lower incomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83,82,84],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-analysis","category-featured-analysis","category-insights","tag-proof-point"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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