Average Job Tenure: Health care and social assistance, Alberta
Verified average job tenure for the selected Health care and social assistance population in Alberta, Canada, drawn from Statistics Canada (2025-annual).
Health care and social assistance · Alberta, Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
Where this sits
In Alberta, health care and social assistance ranks 7th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, above the middle. It sits 8% 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 7th of 10 for health care and social assistance average job tenure, below the middle. It sits 1% below the Canada-wide figure of 103.2 months. The range runs from 97.7 months in Prince Edward Island to 114.8 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.
Take every current employee's months since their start date and average them. Most HR systems report this directly.
How Health care and social assistance compares in Alberta, Canada
Average job tenure, same source and period. See all 19 industries.
What this means
In Alberta, average job tenure in health care and social assistance was 102.2 months in 2025, per Statistics Canada. This is a descriptive population benchmark covering everyone employed in the sector across the province; it says nothing about one employer's retention performance. Pair it with your own tenure records and the reasons people give when they leave, since that combination is what points to a fix. Gallup estimates that "the cost of replacing an individual employee can range from one-half to two times the employee's annual salary -- and that's a conservative estimate."
Average job tenure: Health care and social assistance vs regional average
| Measure | Health care and social assistance | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Average job tenure | 102.2 months | 100 months |