As the various private sector forecasts for Saskatchewan’s economic outlook start to flow, we are seeing something of a consensus on just how fast the economy will grow this year.The latest to add their voice to the chorus is BMO Bank of …
Employment
Sask labour market is hot
Saskatchewan’s labour market is hot these days as employers are creating new positions at a rate we haven’t seen in years.The monthly employment numbers for March were released last week and indicate the province generated almost 4,000 new …
Job vacancies declining
One of the metrics that is included in the basket we call the job market is vacancies.In order to get a handle on the overall state of the relationship between employers and workers, we look at a range of things. These include employment and …
Employers performing well
There was another big swing in the job numbers in January. This may be just one of those aberrations or a suggestion that some of the job growth momentum has been lost. We really won’t know what this signals for a couple of months.The big story …
Saskatchewan wage rate rising
Saskatchewan workers are just a whisker out of second spot on the scale of wage rates.This is a noteworthy development as it provides fuel for purchasing power or retail spending at the worker level and signals that employers are doing alright …
Forecast better than expected
Even a quick examination of the provincial economic forecast for Saskatchewan issued by ScotiaBank suggests, on the whole, things are not all that bad.ScotiaBank is the latest to issue its updated forecast. Nationally, it says the …
2018 big year for employers
It’s hard to find much to complain about in the year-end job figures, which were released late last week by StatsCan.They show 2018 as a solid year for employment creation. Employers created or generated almost 13,000 new full-time jobs in the …
Measuring job satisfaction
There was a time when grandma would advise something like this: Get a job at SaskPower. It is secure and has a pension.That was good advice for her generation, but the critical factors in what makes a quality job are changing. OECD and UN studies …
Big swing in job numbers
If there is anything that has been consistent in the monthly job numbers this year, it’s the magnitude of the changes we’ve been seeing.Employment numbers have been moving either up or down by thousands in a month. Yet, it is hard to see anything …
Changes in the job market
We talk a lot about jobs these days - whether they are in regards to the GM factory in Ontario or the oil patch in the west. But just what do we know about the broader category we call jobs? That prompted StatsCan to look at changes in job markets in …
