Canada added 54,00 jobs in November, pushing the unemployment rate to its lowest rate in 16 months, with gains in part time work in healthcare. <\/p>\n
The labour market surprised economists again in November with a third straight month of job gains.<\/p>\n
Statistics Canada said Friday that the economy added 54,000 new positions last month compared with economists\u2019 expectations for a small loss.<\/p>\n
The unemployment rate fell to 6.5 per cent in November, down from 6.9 per cent in October, marking a second consecutive monthly decline. StatCan said there were 26,000 fewer people in the labour market last month, pushing the jobless rate lower.<\/p>\n
The economy added 181,000 jobs from September through November. Before then, labour market activity had been relatively cool since January as employers grappled with U.S. tariff uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Most of November\u2019s job gain was concentrated in part-time work, StatCan said. The agency noted the rate of people working part-time on an involuntary basis was little changed from a year ago at 17.9 per cent and sat below the pre-pandemic average of 19.3 per cent for the month.<\/p>\n
Youth aged 15 to 24 also drove employment gains last month after coping with a tough labour market to-date in 2025. StatCan said the demographic added 50,000 jobs in November, coming off a gain of 21,000 positions in October \u2013 the first months of job gains for youth since the start of the year.<\/p>\n
The youth employment rate stood at 55.3 per cent in November, up 1.7 percentage points from the record low recorded in July.<\/p>\n
StatCan said that, of those who were unemployed in October, 19.6 per cent secured a job in November. This job-finding rate was up slightly compared to the same months a year ago, which the agency said suggested an easier time finding work.<\/p>\n
The health-care and social assistance sector led gains last month with 46,000 positions added, while the food and accommodation and natural resources sectors also added jobs.<\/p>\n
Wholesale and retail trade meanwhile led losses, shedding 34,000 positions in November. The trade-sensitive manufacturing industry also lost jobs.<\/p>\n
Average hourly wages rose 3.6 per cent in November, a tick higher than in October.<\/p>\n
The November job figures mark the final major data release before the Bank of Canada is set to make its final interest rate decision of the year on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada added 54,00 jobs in November, pushing the unemployment rate to its lowest rate in 16 months, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,1668,6377],"class_list":["post-332243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-labour","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}