It was over 25,000 if you count just the men.
It was over 25,000 if you count just the men.
We also went from having the fourth highest unemployment to the sixth highest.
We also went from having the sixth highest unemployment to the fourth highest.
Most of them were full-time jobs; although full-time jobs, as a percentage of total jobs, are still lower than they were in June 2019.
Also, Alberta dropped to third place for median full-time wages.
But they lost nearly 31,000 jobs in July and August, so this is not as large of an increase as it first appears. And most of them were part-time.
They were all men, and all in the private sector.
And our unemployment rate is the highest it has been since October 2021.
This is the largest increase in full-time jobs since May 2020.
We’ve seen a net loss of 23,500 full-time jobs to date in 2025.