OTTAWA – According to Statistics Canada, the number of job vacancies at the beginning of April reached just over one million, up more than 40 per cent from a year earlier.
The agency says employers in Canada were actively seeking to fill 1,001,100 vacancies, up 23,300 from March and 308,000 from April 2021.
It says the vacancy rate, which measures the number of vacant positions as a proportion of all positions, was 5.8% in April, down from 4.4% in the same month last year.
The number of vacancies hit a record high in several sectors, including construction, which saw vacancies hit 89,900 in April, up 12,000 from March and 27,200 from April 2021 .
The number of vacancies also reached a record high for professional, scientific and technical services; transport and storage; finance and insurance; arts, entertainment and recreation; and real estate and rental and leasing.
The health care and social assistance sector saw job vacancies drop to 125,200 in April from a peak of 147,500 in March, but were still up 21.3% from to the previous year.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on June 24, 2022.
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