Average Job Tenure: Accommodation and food services, Quebec

Where this sits

In Quebec, accommodation and food services ranks 16th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, among the lowest. It sits 53% below Quebec's all-industries figure of 101.2 months. Across the sectors reported for Quebec, average job tenure runs from 48 months in accommodation and food services to 192 months in agriculture. Across provinces, Quebec ranks 10th of 10 for accommodation and food services average job tenure, among the lowest. It sits 15% 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.