Average Job Tenure: Health care and social assistance, New Brunswick
Verified average job tenure for the selected Health care and social assistance population in New Brunswick, Canada, drawn from Statistics Canada (2025-annual).
Health care and social assistance · New Brunswick, Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
Where this sits
In New Brunswick, health care and social assistance ranks 10th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, below the middle. It sits 1% above New Brunswick's all-industries figure of 106.1 months. Across the sectors reported for New Brunswick, average job tenure runs from 53.3 months in accommodation and food services to 149.6 months in agriculture. Across provinces, New Brunswick ranks 3rd of 10 for health care and social assistance average job tenure, above the middle. It sits 4% above 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 New Brunswick, Canada
Average job tenure, same source and period. See all 19 industries.
What this means
New Brunswick showed average job tenure of 107.5 months in health care and social assistance in 2025, according to Statistics Canada. This is a descriptive picture of the provincial sector workforce, not a measure of how effectively a given employer retains its people. Line it up against your own tenure data and exit interviews to understand your position. Gallup's estimate is 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 | 107.5 months | 109.8 months |