From Hill Strategies (Kelly Hill). April 4, 2023.
The moderate job vacancy rate in the broad arts, heritage, and entertainment sector in the fourth quarter of 2022 was still high by longer-term standards
“As I noted last week, recruiting and retaining staff is the second most commonly cited obstacle for organizations and businesses in the arts, heritage, and entertainment (next to inflation). 42% of organizations and businesses indicated that staff recruitment and retention is an important challenge.
Today’s post examines job vacancies in 2022. Part of the analysis is based on annual averages, while the rest of the post examines fourth quarter data (updating the analyses I did for the third quarter, second quarter, and first quarter of 2022).
My analysis of the annual averages for job vacancies delves into arts and heritage subsectors between 2015 and 2022. The job vacancy rates in the performing arts + spectator sports, and in heritage institutions were the highest rates recorded since the start of this dataset in 2015. There was also a record number of job vacancies (not just the %) in the performing arts, spectator sports, and heritage institutions in 2022.
My analysis of fourth quarter data (i.e., October through December), released by Statistics Canada on March 21, shows that the job vacancy rate has stabilized at a moderately high level in the arts, heritage, and entertainment. Similarities and differences across the country are also pointed out.
Statistics Canada publishes job vacancy data for payroll employees only. Arts, heritage, and entertainment (which Statistics Canada refers to as “arts, entertainment, and recreation”) includes performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries (code 711), heritage institutions (code 712), as well as amusement, gambling, and recreation industries (code 713). This post includes quarterly data on the broad StatsCan sector grouping and annual data on the more detailed subsectors.”
