Toronto / Its job market is hot

How does Toronto compare to the rest of the country in overall job growth? And where are the engines of job growth?

Toronto accounted for one in three of all jobs created in Canada between 2010 and 2013 thus far.

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.

The second surprise came with the list of what’s hot and what’s not in the job-creation capital of Canada.

The biggest gain in any occupational category is in IT, computer and information systems professionals – jobs that pay a median wage of about $35 an hour. Welcome to the information society, for real.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at 

via Toronto is Canada’s hottest job market – for better or worse – The Globe and Mail.