Average Job Tenure: Accommodation and food services, New Brunswick

Where this sits

In New Brunswick, accommodation and food services ranks 16th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, among the lowest. It sits 50% below New Brunswick's all-industries figure of 106.1 months. Across the sectors reported for New Brunswick, average job tenure runs from 53.3 months in accommodation and food services to 149.6 months in agriculture. Across provinces, New Brunswick ranks 5th of 10 for accommodation and food services average job tenure, above the middle. It sits 6% below the Canada-wide figure of 56.5 months. The range runs from 48 months in Quebec to 66.8 months in Nova Scotia.

Average tenure describes the people who are still there, not the ones who left. A sector can hold long-serving staff and still lose newcomers quickly, so read it next to your own first-year exits, not instead of them.