Ontario’s labour market

Trends and career tools

Explore a career

Find career paths that match your goals. Compare detailed job profiles that include:

• 3-year outlook
• number of people employed and where they work in Ontario
• education and training requirements
• average annual income

Take a career quiz

Take this simple quiz to identify your strengths and get in a list of 10 jobs that may be a good fit for you. This quiz takes about 10 minutes. You can consider the results of this quiz in combination with other resources as you make career-related decisions.

View labour market reports

Monthly labour market reports outline overall job trends in Ontario. Using Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey, these reports include things like:

• provincial unemployment rate
• cities with highest and lowest unemployment rates
• job change by occupation

September 2025 snapshot

Get into a career

Where we get our labour market information

Our information comes from a variety of sources, including:

• Statistics Canada
• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
• related associations and licensing bodies
• the National Occupational Classification (NOC) system

About the National Occupational Classification (NOC)

The National Occupational Classification assigns codes to and groups jobs by:

• main duties or tasks
• example titles for jobs within an occupational group
• specific education or training requirements
• experience needed

Frequency of job profile updates

Data is refreshed each year in late winter/early spring. Design and usability improvements are made on an ongoing, ad hoc basis.

Read labour market reports

Current labour market reports offer you another way to look at job trends in Ontario.

Using Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey, these reports include things like:

• provincial unemployment rate
• cities with highest and lowest unemployment rates
• job change by occupation

2025 reports

Get the monthly Ontario labour market reports for 2025:

• September 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 9)
• August 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 8)
• July 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 7)
• June 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 6)
• May 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 5)
• April 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 4)
• March 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 3)
• February 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 2)
• January 2025 (Volume 25, Issue 1)