...You’d never know it, with all that "Go West, young man" talk, but Toronto’s importance in the national jobs landscape has been growing since the financial crisis. By 2013, Toronto accounted for almost half the jobs in Ontario (47.4 per cent) and just under one in five of all the jobs in Canada (18.4 per cent). That’s the highest proportion of the job market since 1987, when comparable data started being kept. ...But the big surprise was that three of the top four “hottest” jobs in Toronto over the past three years were retail sales clerks, labourers (not skilled tradesmen), and people working at food counters and in kitchens. These three occupations account for more than one-third of all the job growth in Toronto in the past three years, and their median pay hovers between $10.25 an hour, which is the minimum wage, and $13 an hour....
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 03:29:23 +0000
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