Average Job Tenure: Public administration, Ontario (2025)
Verified average job tenure for the selected Public administration population in Ontario, Canada, drawn from Statistics Canada (2025-annual).
Public administration · Ontario, Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
Where this sits
In Ontario, public administration ranks 4th of 16 sectors for average job tenure, among the highest. It sits 22% above 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 5th of 10 for public administration average job tenure, above the middle. It sits 2% above the Canada-wide figure of 121.8 months. The range runs from 115.1 months in Newfoundland and Labrador to 142.1 months in Nova Scotia.
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 Public administration compares in Ontario, Canada
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What this means
In Ontario's public administration sector, average job tenure was 124.3 months in 2025, according to Statistics Canada. This figure is a descriptive population benchmark that summarizes how long people across the whole sector have held their current jobs; it does not measure any single employer's retention performance, and no individual workplace should read its own results directly off it. Because the cost of losing and replacing staff is steep — SHRM and Work Institute both estimate replacement costs running as high as 200% of a departing worker's annual salary, and Gallup pegs the range at roughly one-half to two times salary — the practical move is to compare this benchmark against your own tenure and exit data to see where your organization actually stands.
Average job tenure: Public administration vs regional average
| Measure | Public administration | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Average job tenure | 124.3 months | 107.3 months |