Average Job Tenure: Total employed, all industries, Manitoba
Verified average job tenure for the selected Total employed, all industries population in Manitoba, Canada, drawn from Statistics Canada (2025-annual).
Total employed, all industries · Manitoba, Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
Where this sits
Across the sectors reported for Manitoba, average job tenure runs from 48.2 months in accommodation and food services to 170.9 months in agriculture. Across provinces, Manitoba ranks 8th of 10 for total employed, all industries average job tenure, among the lowest. It is level with the Canada-wide figure of 100.3 months. The range runs from 94.5 months in Alberta to 111.5 months in Saskatchewan.
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 Total employed, all industries compares in Manitoba, Canada
Average job tenure, same source and period. See all 19 industries.
What this means
Statistics Canada reports average job tenure of 99.9 months in Manitoba for Total employed, all industries in 2025. Read this as a descriptive picture of the province's employed workforce rather than a target or a measure of one organization's retention. Your own tenure data and exit conversations are the sharper instrument, especially given Gallup's estimate that replacing exiting workers costs an organization one-half to two times the departing employee's annual salary.
Average job tenure: Total employed, all industries vs regional average
| Measure | Total employed, all industries | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Average job tenure | 99.9 months | 104.3 months |