Canada’s job vacancy rate in the second quarter of 2025 was the highest on record, according to Statistics Canada’s quarterly job vacancies report.
The job vacancy rate represents the number of vacant positions as a portion of all available jobs, both vacant and occupied. Between April and June, the job vacancy rate in Canada was 4.6 per cent, the highest since comparable data came available in 2015. The high rate was influenced by both the rise in vacancies over the period, plus a decline in payroll employment.
High vacancies in health care, construction, retail, among others
Some sectors saw especially high increases in vacancies. One in seven job vacancies in Canada were in the health care and social assistance sector. It had the largest two-year increase in vacancies, up more than 40,000 to 108,800. Vacancies grew in all sub-sectors, but especially hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities. Nurses and psychiatric nurses had the largest increase of all occupations over the two-year period. Their average hourly wage was $32.50, up almost six per cent from 2019. A report from CBC suggest nurses are quitting in droves due to pandemic burnout. There was already a shortage of nurses from before the pandemic.
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