The number of job vacancies decreased for a third year in a row in 2025. It is even half of what it was in 2022, the Quebec Institute of Statistics indicated on Wednesday.
In its latest Employment Report for the year 2025, the ISQ specifies that there were then 118,000 job vacancies, a decrease of 14 per cent compared to the previous year.
For comparison, there were 241,700 job vacancies in 2022, more than double.
Three industries are particularly affected by the number of job vacancies: health care and social assistance, with 31,100, manufacturing, with 12,300, and retail, with 10,300.
And contrary to popular belief, the Institute notes that the average hourly wage has increased more than the Consumer Price Index, by 3.6 per cent compared to 2.4 per cent in 2024.
And this is also confirmed in the longer term, between 2015 and 2025, said Pierre-Olivier Paré, labour statistics analyst at ISQ, in an interview.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
