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Where the New Jobs Came From: Health Care
Change in jobs from a year earlier, thousands
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where a new leader takes first place.
Health care includes social assistance. Canadian figures come from a household survey and carry sampling error.
Job growth over the past year in Canada and the U.S., with health care set beside all jobs. It shows how much of each country’s hiring came from one sector.
What this chart reads
- Canada Employment (LFS)as “Canada, all jobs”latest 2026-09-01
- Canada Employment: Health Care and Social Assistanceas “Canada, health care”latest 2026-09-01
- Private Payrollsas “U.S., all private jobs”latest 2026-09-01
- Health Care and Social Assistance Payrollsas “U.S., health care”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
Canada Employment (LFS). Source: Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0287-01 (vector v2062811), "Labour force characteristics, monthly, seasonally adjusted; Employment; Total - Gender; 15 years and over". Palanor pulls it from Statistics Canada's Web Data Service every day and rewrites recent periods so revisions carry through. Source: Statistics Canada. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Canada Employment: Health Care and Social Assistance. Source: Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0355-01 (vector v2057617), "Employment by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted; Health Care and Social Assistance; Estimate; Seasonally adjusted". Palanor pulls it from Statistics Canada's Web Data Service every day and rewrites recent periods so revisions carry through. Source: Statistics Canada. Reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Private Payrolls. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, series USPRIV ("All Employees"), published with the monthly Employment Situation report. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. BLS data are in the public domain.
Health Care and Social Assistance Payrolls. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, series CES6562000001 ("All Employees"), published with the monthly Employment Situation report. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. BLS data are in the public domain.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.