Average Job Tenure: Information, culture and recreation, Canada
Verified average job tenure for the selected Information, culture and recreation population in Canada, drawn from Statistics Canada (2025-annual).
Information, culture and recreation · Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
Where this sits
In Canada, information, culture and recreation ranks 12th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, below the middle. It sits 9% below Canada's all-industries figure of 100.3 months. Across the sectors reported for Canada, average job tenure runs from 56.5 months in accommodation and food services to 189.2 months in agriculture.
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 Information, culture and recreation compares in Canada
Average job tenure, same source and period. See all 19 industries.
What this means
Across Canada, average job tenure in information, culture and recreation was 91.3 months in 2025, according to Statistics Canada. That figure describes the whole working population in the industry, not how well any single employer holds on to its people. Read it as a backdrop for your own numbers: pull your workforce's average job tenure and your exit records, then see where your organization sits against the national picture and why. Gallup estimates that replacing an individual employee costs one-half to two times that person's annual salary, so the gap between the two is worth quantifying.
Average job tenure: Information, culture and recreation vs regional average
| Measure | Information, culture and recreation | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Average job tenure | 91.3 months | 106.1 months |