B.C. adds 6K jobs in April for second straight month of gains: StatCan

May 10, 2025

Government hiring helped prop up B.C.’s labour market in April, according to Statistics Canada data released Friday.

The province added 6,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage points to 6.2 per cent as more people entered the workforce.

Canada has a whole added a meagre 7,400 jobs during the month of the federal election, while the national unemployment rate ticked up 0.2 percentage points to 6.9 per cent.

Gains on the West Coast were led by public administration (+6,000 jobs) and retail (+5,700 jobs).

Accommodation and food services (-10,300 jobs) and the tech sector (-5,500 jobs) led losses.

Meanwhile, full-time work (+15,900 jobs) managed to stem the losses in part-time work (-9,800 jobs) across the province.

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