Canada Occupation

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Description

This dataset shows occupation data including job counts and earnings by class of worker, year, area and occupation. Historical data is available from 2001 to the current occupation year and jobs counts are projected from the current occupation year to eight years in the future. 'Current occupation year' refers to the latest year for which data is available from LFS, and is not equivalent to the current calendar year. Data is available down to the Census Subdivision level. Earnings percentile data is not available prior to 2011.

Questions answered by this dataset

• How many pharmacist jobs were there in Winnipeg in 2018? How many are there projected to be in 2028?
• What are the median earnings for chief executives in Vancouver? How about the 75th percentile earnings?
• How many job openings will there be due to replacement needs for civil engineers in Canada between now and 2022?
• Is the number of librarian jobs in Calgary growing or declining?

Metrics

• Jobs: The number of occupied positions. This is not quite the same as workers because one worker might fill more than one position.
• Earnings: Equivalent to Earnings.Average * Jobs (current year)
• EPW: Earnings per worker for the current occupation year. EPW = current year earnings divided by current year jobs (EPW = Earnings / Jobs).
• Earnings.Average: Average hourly earnings.
• Earnings.Percentile10: 10th percentile hourly earnings per worker.
• Earnings.Percentile25: 25th percentile hourly earnings per worker.
• Earnings.Percentile50: 50th percentile (median) hourly earnings per worker.
• Earnings.Percentile75: 75th percentile hourly earnings per worker.
• Earnings.Percentile90: 90th percentile hourly earnings per worker.
• Earnings.Median.Annual: Median annual earnings.
• HistoricalEarnings.Percentile10: 10th percentile hourly earnings per worker.
• HistoricalEarnings.Percentile25: 25th percentile hourly earnings per worker.
• HistoricalEarnings.Percentile50: 50th percentile (median) hourly earnings per worker.
• HistoricalEarnings.Percentile75: 75th percentile hourly earnings per worker.
• HistoricalEarnings.Percentile90: 90th percentile hourly earnings per worker.
• HistoricalEarnings.Median.Annual: Median annual earnings.

Filters

• Class of Worker
• Area (Nation, Province, Census Division, Census Subdivision)
• Occupation (all levels down to 4-digit NOC)
• Year

Core LMI Metadata