Average Job Tenure: Agriculture, Alberta (2025)
Verified average job tenure for the selected Agriculture population in Alberta, Canada, drawn from Statistics Canada (2025-annual).
Agriculture · Alberta, Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
Where this sits
In Alberta, agriculture ranks 1st of 16 sectors for average job tenure, among the highest. It sits 120% above Alberta's all-industries figure of 94.5 months. Across the sectors reported for Alberta, average job tenure runs from 49.7 months in accommodation and food services to 207.9 months in agriculture. Across provinces, Alberta ranks 2nd of 10 for agriculture average job tenure, among the highest. It sits 10% above the Canada-wide figure of 189.2 months. The range runs from 81.4 months in Newfoundland and Labrador to 250.3 months in Saskatchewan.
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.
Take every current employee's months since their start date and average them. Most HR systems report this directly.
How Agriculture compares in Alberta, Canada
Average job tenure, same source and period. See all 19 industries.
What this means
Statistics Canada reports average job tenure in Agriculture in Alberta at 207.9 months for 2025. This is a descriptive benchmark for everyone working in the sector across the province, and it says nothing about how any one employer performs at keeping staff. Pair it with your own tenure distribution and the reasons people give when they leave. Gallup estimates that replacing an exiting worker costs one-half to two times that employee's annual salary, which is what makes the internal comparison worth the effort.
Average job tenure: Agriculture vs regional average
| Measure | Agriculture | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Average job tenure | 207.9 months | 100 months |