“On a year-over-year basis, payroll employment in educational services was up by 7,200 (+0.5%) in March 2025. This increase was concentrated in elementary and secondary schools (+19,000; +2.2%) but was partially offset by declines in universities (-8,100; -2.4%) and community colleges and CEGEPs (-3,100; -2.2%).”
Meanwhile, mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; public administration; and arts, entertainment and recreation were among the few sectors that saw payroll employment count increases.
Job vacancies
Meanwhile, there were 529,700 job vacancies in Canada in March, the seventh consecutive month of little change, according to StatCan.
The job vacancy rate was 3.0% in March, up 0.1 percentage points from February (2.9%), but down 0.4 percentage points from March 2024.
