Average Job Tenure: Health care and social assistance, Ontario
Verified average job tenure for the selected Health care and social assistance population in Ontario, Canada, drawn from Statistics Canada (2025-annual).
Health care and social assistance · Ontario, Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
Where this sits
In Ontario, health care and social assistance ranks 10th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, below the middle. It sits 2% below Ontario's all-industries figure of 101.9 months. Across the sectors reported for Ontario, average job tenure runs from 63.9 months in accommodation and food services to 176.9 months in agriculture. Across provinces, Ontario ranks 9th of 10 for health care and social assistance average job tenure, among the lowest. It sits 3% 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 Ontario, Canada
Average job tenure, same source and period. See all 19 industries.
What this means
In Ontario's health care and social assistance sector, average job tenure reached 99.9 months in 2025, according to Statistics Canada. This is a descriptive population benchmark for the whole regional workforce, not a measure of any single employer's retention performance. Because departures are expensive (Gallup estimates that replacing a worker costs one-half to two times their annual salary), treat this figure as a reference point and compare it against your own tenure and exit data before judging where your organization stands.
Average job tenure: Health care and social assistance vs regional average
| Measure | Health care and social assistance | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Average job tenure | 99.9 months | 107.3 months |