{"id":10326,"date":"2026-05-08T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/?p=10326"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:45:26","slug":"canadas-unemployment-rose-in-april-but-details-less-alarming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/economics\/canadian-analysis\/data-flashes\/canadas-unemployment-rose-in-april-but-details-less-alarming\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s unemployment rose in April but details less alarming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-block  pos-rel\" style=\"border-radius:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-rbc-section-inner-block  section-inner\" style=\"border-radius:0x\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-rbc-bright-blue-tint-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9facfceaeea81be06a6c378a23f192aa\" id=\"h-the-bottom-line\">The Bottom Line:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada lost 18,000 jobs in April, adding to declines in earlier in the year for a cumulative loss of 112,000 in 2026 to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unemployment rate ticked back up to 6.9%, matching last April&#8217;s level. Hours worked remained essentially flat, and the labour force participation rate increased.&nbsp;Critically, and consistent with earlier trends, rising unemployment was driven not by layoffs but by weak hiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Permanent layoffs in Canada continued to decline in April, sitting 10% below their October 2025 peak. Instead, unemployment rose as more workers left their jobs to seek new positions and new labour market entrants struggled to find work.<br><br>We continue to look through near-term volatility, and expect resilient domestic spending from consumers, businesses and governments will support gradual improvements in labour conditions later this year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"everviz-FP_o6xGc0\" class=\"everviz-FP_o6xGc0\" data-view=\"graph\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-rbc-bright-blue-tint-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ed47f0720c67d5e347d28ce1dffa7617\" id=\"h-the-details\">The details:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-rbc-list is-style-chevron-list mar-b\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Employment edged down 17,000 in April, more than reversing the 14,000 gain in March. Losses were concentrated in full-time employment and the goods-producing sectors, that was partially offset by gains in part-time and services sector jobs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Among goods-producing sectors, job losses were widely based but led by construction (-16,000). Employment in Canada&#8217;s tariff-exposed manufacturing sector was little changed in April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Services sectors as a whole added jobs in April, with losses in information, culture and recreation (-25,000) and other services (-13,000) offset by gains in business, building and support services (+22,000) as well as health care and social assistance. (+18,000).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>On a year-over-year basis and as StatCan flagged, health care and social alone added 119,000 (or over 4%) jobs in Canada. Excluding the sector, employment contracted by 52,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Back to April, the unemployment rate ticked higher from 6.7% to 6.9% &#8212; between the recent high of 7.1% in September 2025, and the recent low of 6.5% rate in January.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Details underlying the increase in unemployment were less alarming \u2013 permanent layoffs remained on its trend lower while jobs leavers and labour market entrants both rose These trends are&nbsp;consistent with rising unemployment being driven by low hiring, and not elevated firing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>The labour force participation rate in April ticked slightly higher to 65%, driven by rising participation among the core 25-54 year old age groups (to 88.5% from 88.2%). The 65% reading, however, was still near the lowest rate since 1990s (outside of pandemic) due to aging population.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Monthly population growth continues to slow, reflecting the impact of the immigration curb. Canadian working age (aged 15+) population edged up just 9,000 in April &#8212; well-below the record 100k+ per month increases in the first half of 2024.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>In the coming months, we continue to expect the monthly population growth will turn negative following declines already seen in the quarterly population estimates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Hours worked were very little changed in April after edging up 0.2% in March. Wage growth reversed back to a more normal-looking 0.2% monthly&nbsp;(seasonally adjusted) gain in April but larger increases earlier in the year means the year-over-year reading remains elevated, at 4.5%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Among provinces, April&#8217;s rise in unemployment rate was fairly broad-based. Quebec led the decline (-43,000) bringing cumulative employment losses to 91,000 for 2026. The unemployment rate rose 0.8 percentage points to 6.2% \u2013 matching its recent peak from June 2025.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-rbc-list-item\">\n<p>Newfoundland &amp; Labrador also saw employment fall (-5,200), while Saskatchewan and New Brunswick posted smaller declines. Ontario bucked the trend, adding 42,000 jobs and pushing its unemployment rate down 0.1 percentage point to 7.5%, though this only partially offset the province&#8217;s 69,000 cumulative employment loss year-to-date. 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