Canada Pension Plan

Marginal note:Amount of employee’s contribution

• 8 (1) Every employee who is employed by an employer in pensionable employment shall, by deduction as provided in this Act from the remuneration in respect of the pensionable employment paid to the employee by the employer, make an employee’s contribution for the year in which the remuneration is paid to the employee of an amount equal to the product obtained when the contribution rate for employees for the year is multiplied by the lesser of

  • (a) the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year paid by the employer, minus such amount as or on account of the basic exemption for the year as is prescribed, and

  • (b) the employee’s maximum contributory earnings for the year, minus such amount, if any, as is determined in prescribed manner to be the employee’s salary and wages paid by the employer on which a contribution has been made for the year by the employee under a provincial pension plan.

• Marginal note:Contributions for 1997

  (1.1) Notwithstanding subsection (1), for 1997 the contribution required by that subsection, in this subsection referred to as the “basic contribution”, shall be calculated as though the contribution rate for employees were 2.925% and every employee who is required to make a contribution under that subsection shall make an additional contribution of an amount equal to 1/39 of the basic contribution.

• Marginal note:Interest on unpaid additional contributions

  (1.2) Where the amount paid by an employee on or before the employee’s balance-due day for a year on account of the additional contribution required to be made under subsection (1.1) is less than the amount of the additional contribution required to be made, interest at a prescribed rate per annum is payable by the employee on the difference between those amounts from the balance-due day for the year to the day of payment.

• Marginal note:Application of certain provisions

  (1.3) Subsection 30(1) and sections 32, 36 and 37 apply in respect of the additional contribution required to be made under subsection (1.1) as though it were a contribution required to be made under this Act in respect of self-employed earnings.

• Marginal note:Excess amount

  (2) An excess amount has been paid when the aggregate of all amounts deducted as required from the remuneration of an employee for a year, whether by one or more employers, on account of the employee’s contribution for the year under this Act or under a provincial pension plan exceeds the sum obtained by adding the following amounts:

  • (a) the product obtained when the contribution rate for employees for the year under this Act is multiplied by the lesser of

    • (i) the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year in respect of pensionable employment to which the provisions of this Act relating to the making of contributions apply, plus the employee’s contributory self-employed earnings for the year in the case of an individual who is described in section 10 and to whom the provisions of this Act relating to the making of contributions apply, minus the prorated portion of the employee’s basic exemption for the year calculated under subsection (4), and

    • (ii) the prorated portion of the employee’s maximum contributory earnings for the year calculated under subsection (5); and

  • (b) the product obtained when the contribution rate for employees for the year under a provincial pension plan is multiplied by the lesser of

    • (i) the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year in respect of pensionable employment to which the provisions of a provincial pension plan apply, minus the prorated portion of the employee’s basic exemption for the year calculated under subsection (6), and

    • (ii) the prorated portion of the employee’s maximum contributory earnings for the year calculated under subsection (7).

• Marginal note:Overpayment

  (3) The overpayment made by the employee on account of an employee’s contribution for the year under this Act is the product obtained when the excess amount determined under subsection (2) is multiplied by the ratio that

  • (a) the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year in respect of pensionable employment to which the provisions of this Act relating to the making of contributions apply, subject to the maximum pensionable earnings in respect of each pensionable employment,

  bears to

  • (b) the aggregate of the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year in respect of pensionable employment to which the provisions of this Act relating to the making of contributions apply or to which the provisions of a provincial pension plan apply, subject to the maximum pensionable earnings in respect of each pensionable employment.

• Marginal note:Prorated portion of employee’s basic exemption

  (4) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(a)(i), the prorated portion of the employee’s basic exemption for the year is the product obtained when the employee’s basic exemption is multiplied by the ratio that

  • (a) the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year in respect of pensionable employment to which the provisions of this Act relating to the making of contributions apply, subject to the maximum pensionable earnings in respect of each pensionable employment,

  bears to

  • (b) the aggregate of the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year in respect of pensionable employment to which the provisions of this Act relating to the making of contributions apply or to which the provisions of a provincial pension plan apply, subject to the maximum pensionable earnings in respect of each pensionable employment.

• Marginal note:Prorated portion of employee’s maximum contributory earnings

  (5) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(a)(ii), the prorated portion of the employee’s maximum contributory earnings for the year is the product obtained when the employee’s maximum contributory earnings is multiplied by the ratio that

  • (a) the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year in respect of pensionable employment to which the provisions of this Act relating to the making of contributions apply, subject to the maximum pensionable earnings in respect of each pensionable employment,

  bears to

  • (b) the aggregate of the employee’s contributory salary and wages for the year in respect of pensionable employment to which the provisions of this Act relating to the making of contributions apply or to which the provisions of a provincial pension plan apply, subject to the maximum pensionable earnings in respect of each pensionable employment.

• Marginal note:Prorated portion of employee’s basic exemption

  (6) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(b)(i), the prorated portion of the employee’s basic exemption for the year is the difference between the employee’s basic exemption, determined without taking into account paragraphs 19(b) and (c), and the prorated portion calculated under subsection (4).

• Marginal note:Prorated portion of employee’s maximum contributory earnings

  (7) For the purposes of subparagraph (2)(b)(ii), the prorated portion of the employee’s maximum contributory earnings for the year is the difference between the employee’s maximum contributory earnings, determined without taking into account paragraphs 17(b) and (c) and 19(b) and (c), and the prorated portion calculated under subsection (5).