Average Job Tenure: Finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing, Alberta

Where this sits

In Alberta, finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing ranks 9th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, below the middle. It sits 4% 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 10th of 10 for finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing average job tenure, among the lowest. It sits 7% below the Canada-wide figure of 105.8 months. The range runs from 97.9 months in Alberta to 128.4 months in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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.