What would the Dividend
mean for your community?
Explore monthly payments to residents across British Columbia. Start with our proposed $500 a month, then see what changes at $1,000.
Find a community ↓A monthly dividend. A local view.
Canadian dollars · July 1, 2025 population estimates
Choose a result below. City and district municipalities are listed separately.
All ages included. Full participation is assumed. The higher payment depends on future revenues.
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These are total payments to residents. They are not a forecast of local spending or GDP growth.
How much might be spent locally?
Some payments go to savings, debt repayment or purchases outside the community. Adjust this assumption to explore the first round of local spending.
—Illustrative monthly spending from the payments. The 60% starting assumption is not measured local behaviour. No multiplier is applied, and this is not net additional spending after funding effects.
And for a household?
$2,000 / month$24,000 / year
Dividend only. Other benefits are not included. Residency requirements, administration of children’s payments and interactions with existing benefits need to be settled in the final program design.
Compare communities
The same per-person amount applies everywhere. Differences below come from population.
| Community | Residents | Monthly payments | Annual payments | Action |
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Up to four areas. The province-wide total includes all communities, so it is shown separately below.
Download the population data (CSV) ↓Payments require a funding plan.
Our proposal connects the Dividend to land value taxation and resource revenues. The calculator measures the scale of payments; it does not establish that those revenue sources cover the program.
Revenue used to replace an existing tax cannot also be counted as new money for the Dividend. Municipal services, administration, other benefits and any revenue shortfall must be accounted for.
Explore the Land Value Tax →Gross annual payments across BC at the selected monthly amount.
Uses a fixed population, all ages and 100% participation. Excludes administration, population growth, tax offsets and behavioural effects. A separately costed fiscal plan is needed.
How to read these results
Population × payment, with the assumptions in view
Monthly payments equal the selected area’s estimated population multiplied by the monthly amount. Annual payments multiply that result by 12. For 50,000 residents, $500 a month means $25 million in monthly payments; $1,000 means $50 million.
The data are BC Stats estimates as of July 1, 2025, from the January 2026 workbook. They are not a live headcount. Municipal boundaries apply: Vancouver city is different from Metro Vancouver. Rural residents appear in grouped unincorporated areas; not every named settlement has a separate estimate. A zero in the source remains zero.
Payments, spending and economic growth are different measures
A dividend changes residents’ cash income. Local spending depends on saving, debt payments, imports and purchasing choices. Net economic effects also depend on how the program is financed, available housing and goods, prices and changes in work. This tool does not estimate jobs or apply a GDP multiplier.
How this relates to Yang and UBI Works
Andrew Yang’s 2020 Freedom Dividend proposed US$1,000 monthly for adult US citizens. This tool uses the BC Renewal proposal in Canadian dollars and models residents of every age. UBI Works offers Canadian basic-income research and advocacy; its national models are not forecasts for this BC proposal.
Sources & method
- BC Stats population estimates · Original workbook, “Mun-RD” sheet, 2025 column. Retrieved September 18, 2026.
- Yang 2020: Freedom Dividend FAQ
- UBI Works: Canadian basic-income research and advocacy
- BC Renewal Party policy proposals. Calculations by BC Renewal Party; source organisations do not endorse this tool.