The unemployment rate, at 4.9 per cent in July, is at the lowest it’s been since Statistics Canada started keeping data back in 1976. The economy also lost 31 thousand jobs last month.

Statistics Canada reports that employment declined among older and core-aged women, while it was up among older men. And a decrease in the number of employees working in the public sector was tempered by a gain among self-employed workers.

Saskatchewan has an unemployment rate of 4.0 per cent which is second lowest among the provinces. Its a drop from 7.1 per cent in July of 2021but it was up slightly from the 3.9 per cent recorded in June.

The Government of Saskatchewan says several all-time employment records were hit in July 2022, including full-time employment (490,300), off-reserve Indigenous employment (67,800) and off-reserve Indigenous full-time employment (56,500).

The Province reports that in July 2022, Saskatchewan’s seasonally adjusted employment of 576,200 had recovered 100.4 per cent from pre-COVID February 2020 employment levels.