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Net Income Per Share Information (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

Net Income Per Share Information [Abstract]

Basic and Diluted Net Income Per Common Share

The following table sets forth the calculation of the numerator and denominator used in the computation of basic and diluted net income per common share attributable to the Company’s shareholders for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017: 


		Three months ended September 30,						Nine months ended September 30,
		2018			2017			2018			2017
Numerator:
Net income attributable to Waste Connections for basic and diluted earnings per share		$	150,843		$	123,227		$	414,393		$	261,732

Denominator:
Basic shares outstanding			263,628,838			263,443,064			263,657,274			263,298,839
Dilutive effect of equity-based awards			765,919			856,408			719,046			810,544
Diluted shares outstanding			264,394,757			264,299,472			264,376,320			264,109,383




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Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 260
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257

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