Canada added 14K jobs in March but unemployment rate unchanged - BERITAJA

Canada added 14,000 jobs successful March, but the country’s unemployment complaint remained unchanged astatine 6.7 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday.

While the employment was “little changed” past month, it comes connected the backmost of a nonaccomplishment of 84,000 jobs successful February, which raised the unemployment complaint from 6.5 per cent to 6.7 per cent.

Job maturation was led by a class the agency calls “other services,” which includes repair and attraction activity successful the economy, arsenic good arsenic the professional, technological and method services and earthy resources industries.

Canada’s earthy resources assemblage saw a 3 per cent increase, adding 10,000 caller jobs. Nearly half of those jobs came from Alberta alone.

The tariff-sensitive manufacturing manufacture eked retired a fewer 1000 occupation gains successful March while the finance, insurance, existent property and leasing assemblage led past month’s losses.

While employment successful healthcare was small changed compared to past month, the assemblage added 94,000 caller jobs compared to the aforesaid clip past year. Over the aforesaid period, Canada shed 44,000 manufacturing jobs.

Canadians earned higher hourly wages successful March compared to the aforesaid clip past year, pinch mean hourly wages rising 4.7 per cent — a jump from 3.9 per cent successful February and the fastest gait successful 18 months.

The unemployment complaint was dependable crossed property groups.

For group successful the “core moving age” group – ages 25 to 54 – the unemployment complaint was mostly unchanged 5.8 per cent.

While younker unemployment roseate 1.3 per cent successful February, to 13.8 per cent, it was unchanged for younker betwixt the ages of 15 and 24. The fig was beneath the caller precocious of 14.6 per cent recorded successful September 2025.

For Canadians complete 55, the unemployment complaint was 4.9 per cent successful March.

— With files from Canadian Press