Highlights from ‘Job Vacancies and Wages, Q3 2024’
The following statistics were released from the Economics and Statistics Division on December 16. For full details from this dataset, please click here.
- Nova Scotia’s job vacancy rate (seasonally adjusted) was 3.3% in Q3 2024, representing 14,550 job vacancies
- Nationally, the job vacancy rate was 3.1%, down 0.1 percentage point from Q2 2024
- In Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and North Shore regions reported the highest job vacancy rates in Q3 2024
- Halifax reported the lowest job vacancy rate at 2.8%
- Compared with Q3 2023, there were notable declines in job vacancy rates for Nova Scotia’s construction, administrative/support/call centers, and accommodation/food services industries
- Most industries in Nova Scotia reported a lower number of job vacancies, comparing Q3 2024 against Q3 2023
- Across all industries, job vacancies were down 19.2% in unadjusted results
- The steepest percentage declines were observed in wholesale, construction as well as agriculture/forestry/fishing
- Compared with national averages, average hourly wages on vacant Nova Scotia positions were lower for all industries except education
- The gaps were largest in wholesale and construction