(OTTAWA) The number of job vacancies across the country fell below the one million mark in July, but remained well above what it was a year earlier, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.
Posted at 3:54 p.m.
The agency says employers in Canada were actively seeking to fill 964,000 job vacancies, which was down 56,400 positions from June.
However, the total number of vacancies in July was up 134,300 from the same month in 2021.
Job vacancies in the accommodation and food services industry fell 15.4%, or 26,200, to 143,600 in July, following five consecutive monthly increases.
Meanwhile, the number of retail job vacancies in July fell 11.9%, or 13,400, from June to 99,100.
According to Statistics Canada, the job vacancy rate, which is the number of job vacancies as a proportion of total labor demand, was 5.4% in July, down 0.4 percentage points from to June. This rate peaked at 6.0% in April.