Table 4
Distribution of employment, job vacancy rate and average hourly wage in 2011 and the percent change in hard-to-fill positions, professional positions and average hourly wage from 2000 to 2011, by sectorNote 1

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Table 4
Distribution of employment, job vacancy rate and average hourly wage in 2011 and the percent change in hard-to-fill positions, professional positions and average hourly wage from 2000 to 2011, by sector
Table summary
This table displays the results of Distribution of employment Distribution in 2011, Change from 2000 to 2011, Employment, Job vacancy rate, Average hourly wage, Hard-to-fill positions and Professional positions, calculated using thousands, percent and dollars units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Distribution in 2011 Change from 2000 to 2011
Employment Job vacancy rate Average hourly wageNote 2 Hard-to-fill positionsNote 3 Professional positions Average hourly wageNote 2
thousands percent dollars percent
All sectors 14,221 2.7 22.59 2.2 17.6 8.9
Forestry, logging and support activities for forestry 39 Note F: too unreliable to be published 22.87 6.7 2.3 -0.9
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 208 6.4 33.01 2.6 14.8 17.3
Utilities 125 0.2 33.82 0.1 22.0 10.3
Construction 855 3.0 24.82 3.9 2.3 10.8
Manufacturing 1,489 2.0 22.95 1.6 7.6 4.3
Wholesale trade 749 2.3 23.56 2.0 5.0 10.8
Retail trade 1,919 1.4 15.48 Note F: too unreliable to be published 2.4 6.1
Transportation and warehousing 698 3.0 22.77 2.2 3.3 4.2
Information and cultural industries 331 2.9 25.93 1.5 25.8 5.1
Finance and insurance 690 1.7 26.62 1.1 25.6 8.8
Real estate and renting and leasing 243 2.2 20.61 2.1 6.1 17.0
Professional, scientific and technical services 795 4.2 28.76 4.7 46.3 9.7
Management of companies and enterprises 107 3.2 26.06 1.5 45.7 -1.6
Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services 745 3.4 17.11 2.5 4.4 11.3
Educational services 1,246 1.6 29.43 0.5 63.3 8.6
Health care and social assistance 1,679 4.3 24.23 3.3 27.9 12.4
Arts, entertainment and recreation 227 2.5 17.99 1.5 8.5 16.5
Accommodation and food services 1,090 2.6 13.17 2.8 0.8 11.5
Other services (except public administration) 524 3.1 19.50 2.8 13.8 11.0
Public administration 463 2.4 29.34 0.6 27.0 19.3
F too unreliable to be published
Note 1.

Data for the territories are excluded from this table.

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Note 2.

The LFS universe has been modified to be comparable to that of the WS. The percentage change in hourly wages was assessed in real terms using the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

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Note 3.

Hard-to-fill positions may be filled or unfilled.

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Sources: Statistics Canada, Workplace Survey (WS) and Labour Force Survey (LFS).
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