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

Where this sits

In Quebec, finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing ranks 9th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, below the middle. It sits 3% above 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 8th of 10 for finance, insurance, real estate, rental and leasing average job tenure, among the lowest. It sits 1% 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.