Employment services

Data for 2000 on the staffing services industry group, comprising the temporary help services and employment placement agencies industries, are now available.

Staffing services establishments earned revenues of $5.8 billion in 2000. Temporary staffing services generated 69% of these revenues. The temporary staffing services industry reported that they helped 465,000 workers find temporary assignments in 2000. These workers produced 232 million billable hours for the industry.

The largest user of this industry's services was the business sector, which paid nearly $4.8 billion in 2000 for employment services. Clients outside Canada generated more than $100 million for this industry's services.

Some 62% of industry revenues were earned in Ontario.

The before-tax profit margin for the industry was 6.7%.

Available on CANSIM: table 361-0001.

For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Randy Smadella (613-951-3472; randy.smadella@statcan.gc.ca), Service Industries Division.