Average Job Tenure: Accommodation and food services, Newfoundland and Labrador

Where this sits

In Newfoundland and Labrador, accommodation and food services ranks 16th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, among the lowest. It sits 55% below Newfoundland and Labrador's all-industries figure of 111.3 months. Across the sectors reported for Newfoundland and Labrador, average job tenure runs from 50.3 months in accommodation and food services to 155.4 months in educational services. Across provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador ranks 6th of 10 for accommodation and food services average job tenure, below the middle. It sits 11% 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.