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Dive into the numbers!
4 Plays8 days ago
Stats rule
The REPORT
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Transcript
Introduction to Canada's Skilled Workforce Demographics
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Baker Plbg
Okay, I actually found the report. What I'm quoting from is the 2021 census that was published in 2023. So it's, you know, from a publishing standpoint, two years old, from a reporting standpoint, ah four years old.
00:00:18
Baker Plbg
I will put the link of this in the description on YouTube. ah But this is all Canada. It's the demographics of the skilled workforce in Canada, which is where all these reports that I've been talking about have been pulling from. So this is the source document, which is probably what I should have found of found out beforehand. And I want to shout out to a fellow baker. It's much information as I'll give you um that actually sent this to
00:00:47
Baker Plbg
to me. And so I think it's great.
Red Seal Workforce Overview
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Baker Plbg
So in 2021, Canada's Red Seal Workforce ah totaled 1.9 million workers, which is down 2.9% from 2016.
00:01:05
Baker Plbg
So those are the total number of people that are working in the Red Seal trades. I also learned that there are 50 categories of Red Seal trades. And if i pull this up here, I'm going to pause this because I'm not as worried.
00:01:21
Baker Plbg
All right. I found it here. So ah from boiler makers, concrete finishers, glazers, heavy equipment operators, mobile crane operators, plumbers. Like it's a big, long fricking list.
00:01:32
Baker Plbg
Tool die makers, machinists, instrumentation and control technicians. So there's a lot of people that are in there. And as noted, the the most, I'll do it over here.
00:01:44
Baker Plbg
The most popular, um trades for the women because this is this report focuses lots of ah on the indigenous and women. 28% are cooks. are bakers. are construction trade helpers or laborers roofers our shingles And also, am absolutely lying to you These are the trades with the highest share of youth workers.
00:02:19
Baker Plbg
Electricians are 15%. Here
Gender and the Red Seal Trades
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Baker Plbg
we go, sorry. The highest Red Seal trades with the highest share of women in the workforce as of 2021. 82% are hairstylists barbers, which makes absolute sense.
00:02:30
Baker Plbg
64% are bakers. 41% are cooks.
00:02:34
Baker Plbg
sixty four percent are bakers um forty one percent are cooks Landscape ah and horticultural technicians or specialists take up 32%.
00:02:47
Baker Plbg
ah Storekeepers or parts persons. I didn't realize. Is that in there?
00:02:55
Baker Plbg
In the 39, I don't see ah parts. I know you can take a course for that. i According to this little, like I'm going through two different things here.
00:03:08
Baker Plbg
But and then painters and decorators are 14%. Anyway, I think it is fascinating. ah One of the things that I wanted to ah sort of dig into that I was, where'd where'd go? gonna pause this, sorry.
00:03:29
Baker Plbg
Okay, I found it. What do you think the immigration numbers are, are are immigrants that are involved in the trade? I was shocked by this, truly. um Before 91, 25% of the wet Red Seal trades were um in or immigrants.
00:03:51
Baker Plbg
I don't know how to say that. in Currently, between 2016 2021, it's only 15%.
00:04:00
Baker Plbg
it's only fifteen percent which is up 3% from 2001 and 2005, which was 12%. percent So only 15% of the workforce, and that includes the 1.9 million that work in the skilled trades.
00:04:19
Baker Plbg
I think that's fascinating numbers. I'm going to find the women here and pause it. Okay, before I go into the women, the most common ethnic or cultural origin reported in the Red Seal workforce. 54% are European. North American. are Asian. are Latin Central America.
00:04:49
Baker Plbg
ah two percent are african one percent is caribbean oceana it's like some nineteen eighty four stuff if you know, you know, ah is 0.3%. And all the rest of them take up about 5.3 to bring our total to 100. I'm going to find the ladies.
00:05:09
Baker Plbg
OK, interestingly, it provides this weird graph that I can't really read back to you. Like I say, I'll send the link in this, and you're welcome to dig it out. ah But it's claiming that only about 15% of the Red Seal workforce is are women, 14.8, which is significantly lower than the general workforce, which has women at 48.2.
00:05:36
Baker Plbg
But when you remove cooks, bakers, and hairstylists, the share of women in the workforce falls to 5.2. Now don't forget, there's 39 different occupations that you can get involved with.
00:05:48
Baker Plbg
um There have been a few gains. um There were fewer than 14,000 women in the labor market, marking a decline of 4.7%.
00:06:00
Baker Plbg
And the men also climbed by 2.4%. four percent ah Painters, bakers, and decorators have significantly higher shares.
00:06:11
Baker Plbg
So what the what did they take out? They took out the cooks, bakers, and hairstylists. And then if you take out the, where'd it go? The painters and the decorators, that drops again. Like I say, plumbing only has 2%. 2%.
00:06:26
Baker Plbg
two per cent in ah the trade, plumbing in the trade. ah Cabinet makers are 1%, plasters are 1%, motorcycle techs 1%.
00:06:40
Baker Plbg
Those are pretty bad numbers. Can I see, hang on, I'm gonna keep pausing this. cause i Again, according to this, the number has fallen by 0.01%.
00:06:55
Baker Plbg
um for plumbers. Ones that are, bakers went up by three, insulators, all the numbers that are, all the trades that are in the and the positive, bakers, painters, cabinet makers, insulators, plasterers, storekeepers and parts, motorcycle techs, boiler makers, construction trade helpers and laborers, machinists,
00:07:16
Baker Plbg
Heavy-duty equipment contractors, carpenters, tool and die makers, concrete finishers, electricians. That does not include the industrial power systems and roof water and shingles.
00:07:29
Baker Plbg
Gas fitters are all in the positive. The negatives, where the women are not going to, are plumbers, bricklayers, refrigeration and heating techs, cooks.
00:07:41
Baker Plbg
Automotive service. I'm just reading this stuff, man. Floor covering installers and structural metal and ah plate work, sheet metal, tile setters. Interestingly, where did I see the,
00:07:55
Baker Plbg
the red tree will say, or the red seal trades that has the highest visible minorities are painters and decorators, hire salists and barbers, machinists, bakers, and cooks.
00:08:06
Baker Plbg
ah Most with the indigenous. Anyway, I think it's fascinating. Construction, roofers, iron workers, and heavy equipment operators. a already did the,
00:08:19
Baker Plbg
where they come from, 54% come from Europe that are in the trade. Interesting. um I won't go over disabilities because that's a minefield.
00:08:34
Baker Plbg
Interestingly, the top five highest earning and the lowest earning, the top one is instrument technician, industrial instrument technicians, electrical power line and cable workers, industrial electricians, heavy duty equipment, crane operators, and then the lowest.
Earnings in Red Seal Trades
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Baker Plbg
That starts off at 200,000 and goes to 160,000. And lowest covering installers, and the lowest are floor covering install painters, bakers, cooks, and hairstylists. And that starts off at 76 and goes to 44.
00:09:07
Baker Plbg
The
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Baker Plbg
average income for the Red Seal trades is the highest in Ontario, or sorry, Quebec, or British Columbia at 117,000. And then the Prairie Provinces, which obviously includes Alberta, 111.
00:09:23
Baker Plbg
eleven and I bet you if they gave it to Alberta, we would be the top. And I think that Manitoba and Saskatchewan brings us down. Those are my thoughts, not yours.
00:09:36
Baker Plbg
ah Atlantic Canada 83,000. Quebec Anyway, it's a fascinating look into when you get into the demographics of what's actually happening in the trade.
00:09:46
Baker Plbg
I think it's important that we understand what's going on. ah Like I say, i would encourage you to look through this report. the It's a 20-page report.
00:09:58
Baker Plbg
It's very easy to read. ah The demographics of skilled trade workforce in Canada. Insights from the 2021 Census. charging more money. get into the trades start charging more money it is evident to me ah based on these numbers that we are far fewer than I ever thought
Misconceptions about Trade Workforce
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Baker Plbg
we were. when If someone would have asked me ah month ago what, how many plumbers are there in in Canada, I would have easily said hundreds of thousands of us, hundreds of thousands. Yeah.
00:10:35
Baker Plbg
And I would have been dead wrong. there's There's hundreds of thousands working in it, but there's only 16,700 certified journeyman plumbers.
00:10:47
Baker Plbg
That's a low number. And of that number, I was talking to someone today. up There's 165, and I encourage them to be 166 women that are certified. And when you do the when you type it in ai there's only three women that come up.
00:11:05
Baker Plbg
And if you're on Instagram, then you know two of them. It's fascinating to me. Absolutely incredible. Anyway, my thoughts, not yours. Check it out.
00:11:16
Baker Plbg
See the links in the descriptions and let me know. Let me know what you think about that. I think it's craziness. My thoughts, not yours.