Pictou County, NS - Lmi Dashboard

LMI Dashboard – Q2 2020 Update

Covid-19 did not hit the North Shore region as hard as others.
Employment dropped by 12% from May 2019 to May 2020.
The unemployment rate rose from 7.8% to 11.6% from May 2019 to May 2020.
Accommodation and food services employment only dropped 7% from May 2019 to May 2020.
Personal and professional services employment is down 26% and primary industries employment down 56%.
Public sector employment is up year-over-year (May 2019 to May 2020).
Construction employment is up year-over-year (May 2019 to May 2020).
The number of people collecting EI rose slighty year-over-year but the data is only through February.
In the past month there have been 37 new job postings in Pictou (Job Bank)
In the past month there have been 41 new job postings in Trenton and 35 in Stellerton (Job Bank)
The top jobs were retail sales, nurses aides, cleaners and accounting clerks.
In the media, there were stories about shortages of farm and fish processing workers and the NSCC moves fully online in the fall.

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