Professional service sector has the most number of job postings for Canada’s Alberta province, according to Workopolis data for 2013. This sector includes non-finance professional jobs such as lawyers, HR personnel and architects.
The methodology used to rank Canada’s best job is as follows:
Data is gathered from Statistics Canada, including jobs that had experienced employment growth over the past five years, had a minimum median salary of $60,000 and employed at least 5,000 people. Rankings are based on four criteria: employment growth (25%), median compensation (based on a 40-hour workweek) in 2013 (40%), the change in median compensation from 2007–08 to 2012–13 (10%), and projected demand for those jobs using data from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (25%). To account for variations in employment levels, the growth category factors in the percentage change over one, three and five years (three- and five-year rates get 10 percentage points; the one-year change gets five). A few broad non-specific job categories were eliminated.
| Rank | Field | Job Postings | % of all job postings | 1-Year Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professional Services | 4,213 | 27% | -17% |
| 2 | Energy & Utilities | 3,185 | 20% | -31% |
| 3 | Agriculture/Manufacturing | 2,067 | 13% | 0% |
| 4 | Financial Services | 2,017 | 13% | -7% |
| 5 | Telecommunications, Media & Technology | 1,181 | 7% | -15% |
| 6 | Health Care | 910 | 6% | 34% |
| 7 | Government (Public Sector) | 728 | 5% | 7% |
| 8 | Insurance | 675 | 4% | -4% |
| 9 | Education | 638 | 4% | 14% |
| 10 | Hospitality & Hotels | 273 | 2% | 69% |