Labour Market Update - April/May 2026
- Updated Jul 10, 2026
B.C.’s labour market showed some improvement in April and May following the sharp employment declines recorded earlier in the year.
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- Updated Jul 10, 2026
B.C.’s labour market showed some improvement in April and May following the sharp employment declines recorded earlier in the year.
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- Updated Apr 30, 2026
B.C.’s labour market weakened sharply through February and March.
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- Updated Sep 10, 2025
Year-to-date, B.C.'s labour market has seen employment rise by just 8,600 (+0.3%).
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- Updated Jun 27, 2025
B.C.’s labour market has added 43,000 jobs (+1.5%) so far in 2025, with the bulk of the gains front-loaded in January (+23,000), while subsequent months brought smaller, steadier gains.
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- Updated Apr 29, 2025
Employment grew through the first quarter of 2025, with a net gain of 24,000 jobs (+0.8%) since December.
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- Updated Jul 11, 2024
In June total employment in B.C. slipped by almost 10,000. The number of employees in the private sector edged higher but a rare decline in public sector employment pulled the overall employment numbers down.
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- Updated Feb 26, 2024
Total employment grew by just 1.5% in B.C. last year, the slowest pace in at least a decade.
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- Updated Nov 29, 2023
B.C.’s headline inflation rate averaged 3.5% in the third quarter of this year. This pace is down from the 7 to 8% annual increase in consumer prices seen through much of 2022. But even with supply chains normalizing and energy prices falling, inflation is likely to be persistent.
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- Updated Aug 9, 2023
In mid 2022 B.C.’s overall CPI inflation rate topped out at 7.9%. Since then, the annual change in the provincial CPI has edged steadily lower and in June of this year was 3.5%.
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- Updated Jun 16, 2022
With inflation in B.C. running above 6% it is reasonable to expect unions and workers to bargain for higher wage increases. But so far there is little evidence of higher settlements.
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