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Full-time jobs increase by 273,400 (4.7%) and part-time jobs increased by 71,300 (5.8%) in 2021. On an annual basis, Ontario’s employment in 2021 was still below its 2019 pre-pandemic level, at 7,366,400 in 2021 compared to 7,376,900 in 2019. Nationally, employment in Canada grew by 866,200 (4.8%) in 2021, the largest annual increase on record.
Employment change in urban centres. Chart 5 shows employment change for Ontario Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) from September 2021 to October 2021. Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, Table 14-10-0380-01, (seasonally adjusted data three-month moving average to reduce volatility caused by small sample size). Download data, chart 5
Employment change by industry, services-producing industries. The horizontal bar chart shows a year-over-year (between the second quarters of 2020 and 2021) change in Ontario’s employment by industry for services-producing industries, measured in thousands with percentage changes in brackets.
Figure 1: Employment among some groups remained below the pre-pandemic level Note: The numbers represent the employment change from 2019 to 2021. The figure highlights several groups that experienced the slowest recovery in employment. However, it does not include all groups where employment remains below pre-pandemic 2019 levels.
Financial Accountability Office of Ontario | fao-on.org The increase in employment in 2021 was experienced across all major age groups, and for male and female workers. Many industries that employ a large share of youth and female workers reopened throughout the year, driving strong job gains for these groups. Jobs gains were widespread in 2021
In addition, it shows employment gain projections represented by arrows from 2021 to 2024. Ontario’s average annual employment was 7.377 million in 2019 and decreased to 7.022 million in 2020. Employment in Ontario is projected to be 7.326 million in 2021, 7.567 million in 2022, 7.719 million in 2023 and 7.835 million in 2024.
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