Canadian Mining Industry Employment and Hiring Forecasts - MiHR

Prairie Region
Unlike other regions in Canada, the Prairie provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) are expected to experience
employment growth over the next 10 years, largely due to expansion in support services activities. 29 Employment in
the baseline scenario is expected to grow on average by 1.1 per cent per year throughout the forecast period. By 2020,
employment in the Prairies will be about 13 per cent higher than in 2009.
The bulk of the hiring requirements will occur earlier in the Prairie region than in most of the other Canadian regions
(Figure 19). As shown in Table 17, the industry will need to hire 16,500 workers over the next three years in the baseline
scenario, which represents nearly 32 per cent of the total cumulative hiring requirements in the Prairies over the 10-year
forecast period. By 2020, this region is expected to have the largest hiring requirement in Canada, needing more than
52,000 workers.
Figure 19
Total Hiring Requirements Forecasts – Prairie Region
Baseline Scenario – 2010 to 2020
6,000
Change in Employment
Non-Retirement
Retirement
5,000
Number of Workers Required
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Source: Mining Industry Human Resources Council, Summer 2010.
29 It should be noted here that these forecasts do not include employment in the oil sands.
2010 Employment and Hiring Forecasts
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