{"id":77882,"date":"2025-10-14T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77882\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:39:10","slug":"canadian-job-market-defies-forecasts-with-strong-full-time-gains-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77882\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian job market defies forecasts with strong full-time gains in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p paraeid=\"{2389b27f-9405-4090-9a74-b6511a864cd8}{240}\" paraid=\"1297655591\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Manufacturing alone added 28,000 jobs, marking its first increase since January and reversing a trend of losses earlier in the year. Health care and social assistance grew by 14,000 positions, while agriculture employment rose by 13,000 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{2389b27f-9405-4090-9a74-b6511a864cd8}{42}\" paraid=\"530282009\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Regionally, Alberta led the country with a gain of 43,000 jobs, more than offsetting previous losses and pushing its unemployment rate down to 7.8 percent. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{ea7bd9e5-8a82-48a3-92bd-718263352a85}{3}\" paraid=\"864382440\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">New Brunswick and Manitoba also posted employment increases, though both provinces saw their unemployment rates rise as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wealthprofessional.ca\/news\/industry-news\/unemployment-tops-agenda-for-under-25s-new-survey-reveals\/390279\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">more people entered the labour force<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{ea7bd9e5-8a82-48a3-92bd-718263352a85}{9}\" paraid=\"1270576674\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">In contrast, employment in Newfoundland and Labrador declined \u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{2389b27f-9405-4090-9a74-b6511a864cd8}{44}\" paraid=\"788452561\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Wage growth continued to outpace inflation, with average hourly wages rising 3.3 percent year-over-year to $36.78, as per Statistics Canada. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manufacturing alone added 28,000 jobs, marking its first increase since January and reversing a trend of losses earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[138,60529,232,111,139,69,242,3454],"class_list":["post-77882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-canadian-employment","tag-jobs","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-wage-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}