Job prospects Carpenter near Yellowknife (NT)

The employment outlook will be moderate for Carpenters (NOC 72310) in Northwest Territories for the 2023-2025 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment is expected to remain relatively stable.
• Not many positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are several unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.
• Due to the seasonal nature of this occupation, employment opportunities may vary depending on the time of the year.

Demand for carpenters should be moderate in the NWT in the short to medium term, driven by government investment in construction. The Government of Northwest Territories estimates that in its 2024-2025 budget it will spend $361M on infrastructure projects with about $94M of that going towards roadwork (CBC News 2023). The federal and territorial governments also announced that they will be spending $20M to replace the Dehk’è Frank Channel bridge (Government of NWT 2023). Also, the federal government announced that it will be providing $53.7M to build infrastructure in Tuktoyaktuk to mitigate the encroaching shoreline on the community (Government of Canada 2023).

Here are some key facts about Carpenters in Northwest Territories:

• Approximately 200 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
• Carpenters mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Construction (NAICS 23): 73%
  • Public Administration and Defence (NAICS 91): 8%
  • Finance, insurance and Real estate and rental and leasing (NAICS 52-53): 7%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 93% compared to 88% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 7% compared to 12% for all occupations
• 56% of carpenters work all year, while 44% work only part of the year, compared to 71% and 28% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 41 weeks compared to 44 weeks for all occupations.
• 12% of carpenters are self-employed compared to an average of 7% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: more than 95% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: less than 5% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: 32% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 21% compared to 26% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 36% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 7% compared to 18% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: less than 5% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 9% for all occupations

Source Labour Market Information | Prospects Methodology