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Statistics Canada's Census Profile presents information from the 2021 Census of Population - Ottawa, City (CV) [Census subdivision], Ontario.
- Introduction
- Type of Work Quarterly Details
- Sector and Occupation Quarterly Details
- Geographic Region
- Age and Gender Quarterly Details
- Education Level and Immigrant Status Quarterly Details
- Wages Quarterly Details
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
About the Ontario Employment Report
The Ontario Employment Report is released four times a year and provides an assessment of the current trends and developments in the Ontario labour market. The Ontario Employment Report is a companion report to the Ontario Economic Accounts, which provides an overall assessment of the current state of the Ontario economy.
Methodological note
In the current issue, year-over-year change represents change between the averages in the second quarter of 2020 and the second quarter of 2021. Note that the Ontario Economic Accounts report primarily shows changes between the previous and the current quarter. This report uses seasonally adjusted data in charts displaying data with a monthly frequency in the Overview section. Unadjusted data is used in charts and tables showing the changes for the current quarter compared with the same quart...
Impact of COVID‑19 on the labour market
Beginning in mid-March 2020, travel restrictions, business closures and physical distancing measures were put in place by various levels of government to help contain the spread of COVID‑19 and protect the health of Ontarians. These restrictions and public health measures were in place to varying degrees throughout 2020 and in the second quarter 2021. Starting in April 2021, Ontario was under a province-wide Stay-at-Home order and enacted additional public health measures. In June 2021, Ontar...
Employment change by work status
Year-over-year, part-time employment increased by 23.3% and full-time employment increased by 9.1% in the second quarter of 2021. Despite these strong employment gains year-over-year, as of June 2021, employment in Ontario remains below its pre-pandemic level in February 2020 for part-time workers (-3.1%) and full-time workers (-2.4%). Overall, part-time workers have been disproportionally impacted by the COVID‑19 pandemic as they are more likely to work in industries that experienced the lar...
Employment change by employment sector
Year-over-year, private sector employment increased by 15.0%, public sector employment increased by 9.5% and self-employment increased by 0.2%.
Employment above-average wage and below-average wage industries
Year-over-year, paid employment increased in below-average wage industries by 15.8%, and employment in above-average wage industries increased by 10.9%.
Employment change by industry, goods-producing industries
Employment in goods-producing industries increased significantly in the second quarter of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020. The overall gain was driven by large increases in manufacturing (+15.7%) and construction (+12.6%), and small increases in utilities (+2.6%) and forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, oil and gas (+2.7%). Employment declined in agriculture (-0.1%).
Employment change by industry, services-producing industries
In the second quarter of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, employment increased in all services-producing industries, except for business, building, and other support services (-1.3%). Among services-producing industries, wholesale and retail trade (+12.6%) experienced the largest employment gains followed by professional, scientific and technical services (+14.7%), health care and social assistance (+10.9%) and accommodation and food services (+30.1%).
Employment change by occupational group
Year-over-year, employment increased in every broad occupational group, except for sales and service occupations (-2.2%). Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services (+14.1%) experienced the largest increase in employment followed by business, finance and administration occupations (+13.2%), occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport (+13.2%), trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations (+13.4%) and natural resources, agriculture an...
Employment change by Ontario region
Year-over-year, employment increased in all Ontario regions in the second quarter of 2021. Southwestern Ontario (15.2%) experienced the highest rate of employment growth, followed by Central Ontario (12.4%), the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)footnote 2(10.9%), Eastern Ontario (10.5%) and Northern Ontario (3.9%).
Unemployment rates by Ontario region
In the second quarter of 2021, the unemployment rate decreased in every region. The GTAhad the highest unemployment rate (10.0%), while Northern Ontario had the lowest unemployment rate (7.3%).
Participation rates by Ontario region
In the second quarter of 2021, the labour force participation rate varied among economic regions, ranging from 58.1% in Northern Ontario to 66.0% in the GTA.
Employment change by age group and gender
Compared to the same quarter last year, employment increased for all age groups in the second quarter of 2021. Youth aged 15 to 24 posted the highest rate of employment growth (+25.2%), followed by older workers aged 55 years and over (+9.7%) and core-aged workers aged 25 to 54 (+9.6%). Despite these strong employment gains year-over-year, as of June 2021, employment in Ontario remains below its pre-pandemic level in February 2020 for all age groups (-9.5% for youth, -1.9% for older workers a...
Unemployment rates by age group and gender
In the second quarter of 2021, youth had the highest unemployment rate (20.4%), followed by older people (7.7%) and core-aged people (6.9%). Compared to the same period last year, the unemployment rate decreased by 9.2 percentage points for youth, 3.1 percentage points for core-aged people and 1.5 percentage points for older people. In the second quarter of 2021, the unemployment rate for females (9.1%) was higher than that for males (8.9%). Compared to the same period last year, the unemploy...
Participation rates by age group and gender
In the second quarter of 2021, core-aged people had the highest labour force participation rate (86.5%) followed by youth (61.1%) and older people (38.8%). Compared to the second quarter of 2020, the participation rate increased by 6.3 percentage points for youth, 4.4 percentage points for core-aged people and 2.1 percentage points for older people. Men had a higher participation rate (69.9%) than women (60.1%) in the second quarter of 2021. Compared to the same period last year, the particip...
Employment rates by education level and immigrant status
In the second quarter of 2021, those with less than a high school diploma continued to have the lowest employment rate (53.1%), while those with a university degree recorded the highest employment rate (87.3%), followed by those with a postsecondary certificate or diploma (82.1%). Year-over-year, the employment rate increased for all education levels, led by those with a university degree (+6.8 percentage points). Those born in Canada had the highest employment rate (82.9%), while very recent...
Unemployment rates by education level and immigrant status
In the second quarter of 2021, those with a university degree had the lowest unemployment rate (5.2%) while those with less than a high school diploma had the highest unemployment rate (12.5%). Year-over-year, the unemployment rate of core-aged people for all education levels decreased. Year-over-year, the unemployment rate also decreased for all groups by immigrant status. In the second quarter of 2021, those born in Canada had the lowest unemployment rate (6.2%), while recent immigrants had...
Participation rates by education level and immigrant status
In the second quarter of 2021, those with a university degree continued to have the highest participation rate (92.1%), while those with less than a high school diploma had the lowest participation rate (60.8%). Year-over-year, the participation rate increased for all education levels. In the second quarter of 2021, recent immigrants and very recent immigrants continued to have the lowest participation rate compared to established immigrants and those born in Canada. Year-over-year, the parti...
Average hourly wages by employment status, 1997-2020
Over the last two decades, the average hourly wage increased in real termsfootnote 3(i.e. after accounting for inflation) from $25.18 in 1997 to $30.24 in 2020, with the growth rate averaging 0.8% per year. Over this period, real wages grew annually at an average growth rate of 0.8% for part-time workers and 0.7% for full-time workers.
Hourly wage growth by type of work
In the second quarter of 2021, the average hourly wage of Ontario employees was $30.83, a decrease of 1.1% from the second quarter of 2020.footnote 4The decrease in average hourly wages was in part a result of the change in the composition of employment. Employment increase in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the same period last year were concentrated in relatively lower-paying industries, such as accommodation and food services, wholesale and retail and business, building and other su...
Average hourly wage rate and wage growth by occupational group
Year-over-year, five broad occupational groups experienced growth in average hourly wages, while the remaining five experienced a decrease in average hourly wage. Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport (+4.8%), natural resources, agriculture and related occupations (+4.5%) and trades, transport and equipment operators (+4.1%) experienced the largest increase in average hourly wage. The three broad occupational groups that experienced the largest decrease in average hourly wages wer...
Net employment between February 2020 and June 2021
Below are highlights (seasonally adjusted) of recent trends in Ontario’s labour market between February 2020 and June 2021 as a result of the COVID‑19 pandemic.
Overview of monthly* labour force characteristics
*Seasonally adjusted Note: All estimates in this appendix are based on Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey.
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On an annual basis, employment in Ontario increased by 344,800 (4.9%) in 2021, the largest employment increase on record. This compared to a decline of 355,300 (-4.8%) net jobs in 2020. Full-time jobs increase by 273,400 (4.7%) and part-time jobs increased by 71,300 (5.8%) in 2021.
Employment increased by 42,700 (+0.6%) jobs in October 2022, with the majority of gains in part-time employment (+37,400; +2.8%). The unemployment rate rose for the fourth consecutive month to 5.9% in October, 0.1 percentage point up from the previous month.
Feb 23, 2022 · Following the sharp job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns, Ontario employment rebounded strongly in 2021, with jobs increasing by 344,800 (a 4.9 per cent rise compared to 2020). This marked the largest annual job gain on record and raised employment essentially to the 2019 pre-pandemic level.
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Full-time employment was still down 12,900 jobs from the peak in October 2023 but stood 400 jobs above the trough in April 2024. * All figures are seasonally adjusted, 3-month moving averages. Seasonal adjustment removes normal seasonal fluctuations.
