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Forest sector employment (Canada)
	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994	1993	1992	1991	1990
Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (number) ^{Footnote 1}
Forestry and logging	25,621	24,205	26,384	27,174	27,129	27,308	27,813	26,765	27,273	28,432	29,056	28,648	28,392	34,073	39,441	42,290	45,727	47,994	47,986	47,322	48,766	50,332	48,687	51,595	56,319	54,429	56,257	53,626	52,811	49,980	52,344
Pulp and paper product manufacturing	47,903	47,696	52,281	54,121	54,108	53,178	55,642	56,800	58,147	57,839	61,893	62,988	66,602	73,520	79,380	83,810	87,689	93,718	96,994	95,981	103,703	110,144	103,110	100,821	104,098	103,394	104,450	104,779	107,415	111,954	121,628
Support activities for forestry	12,533	11,508	12,163	12,218	12,520	12,551	12,295	11,820	11,045	10,946	11,122	11,226	11,114	11,590	13,021	13,771	13,416	13,503	14,991	19,796	19,383	27,996	29,223	26,700	30,190	29,169	32,715	30,966	28,437	27,165	26,956
Wood product manufacturing	91,636	85,746	93,123	93,631	93,081	92,281	91,781	92,638	92,028	89,630	88,361	88,949	89,459	110,372	122,940	130,222	135,306	137,153	133,829	134,227	135,758	141,872	134,177	127,559	124,299	116,544	108,431	109,790	96,475	93,450	99,572
Total	177,693	169,155	183,951	187,144	186,838	185,318	187,531	188,023	188,493	186,847	190,432	191,811	195,567	229,555	254,782	270,093	282,138	292,368	293,800	297,326	307,610	330,344	315,197	306,675	314,906	303,536	301,853	299,161	285,138	282,549	300,500
Canadian System of National Accounts (number) ^{Footnote 2}
Forestry and logging	30,470	27,425	31,640	33,180	32,830	33,415	32,035	31,545	32,405	32,590	35,645	34,710	34,835	41,970	44,835	49,850	56,645	56,065	55,795	58,210	58,415	61,170	64,430	60,785	65,990
Pulp and paper product manufacturing	55,435	52,805	53,815	56,635	56,140	54,170	57,910	58,510	58,805	58,650	60,755	64,385	64,700	70,530	77,665	83,135	90,020	90,385	91,735	96,070	103,400	105,295	97,080	99,995	104,310
Support activities for forestry	22,630	20,500	22,765	22,655	22,175	21,895	21,085	21,250	20,635	20,595	21,805	21,060	21,715	20,585	21,090	21,370	20,290	20,270	21,465	20,315	20,965	22,570	24,285	23,770	21,945
Wood product manufacturing	96,830	86,260	94,925	98,605	99,830	96,445	91,550	91,200	91,140	88,120	85,770	90,520	85,960	100,505	112,520	133,665	150,450	158,715	148,250	151,400	147,765	156,510	163,030	147,920	153,405
Total	205,365	186,990	203,145	211,075	210,975	205,925	202,580	202,505	202,985	199,955	203,975	210,675	207,210	233,590	256,110	288,020	317,405	325,435	317,245	325,995	330,545	345,545	348,825	332,470	345,650
Natural Resources Satellite Account (number) ^{Footnote 3}	210,706	199,054	220,308	225,781	227,835	224,950	221,011	220,304	219,193	221,808	227,107	233,522	232,879	263,977	291,684
Direct and indirect employment (number) ^{Footnote 4}	345,825	309,110		302,489	301,208	306,020	296,691	288,700	361,567
Wages and salaries (dollars) ^{Footnote 5}
Logging		1,664,414,000	1,806,850,000	1,782,587,000	1,666,370,000	1,588,646,000	1,577,158,000	1,503,019,000	1,358,577,000	1,363,229,000	1,361,800,000	1,308,833,000	1,349,681,000	1,971,323,000	2,261,183,000	2,404,325,000	2,666,773,000	2,604,824,000	1,891,702,000	2,076,934,000	2,073,903,000	1,919,210,000	1,721,811,000	1,835,609,000	1,870,701,000	1,831,750,000	1,764,048,000	1,563,090,000	1,702,040,000	1,639,058,000	1,540,440,000	1,640,687,000
Pulp and paper product manufacturing		3,593,874,000	3,788,146,000	3,694,284,000	3,579,361,000	3,410,466,000	3,459,083,000	3,640,846,000	3,235,468,000	3,358,406,000	3,410,047,000	3,543,883,000	3,615,862,000	4,072,149,000	4,354,263,000	4,535,143,000	4,987,756,000	5,190,032,000	5,244,896,000	5,217,888,000	5,179,752,000	5,221,169,000	5,581,104,000	4,982,728,000	5,139,002,000	5,119,409,000	5,034,148,000	4,717,101,000	4,572,217,000	4,560,454,000	4,667,264,000	4,655,138,000
Wood product manufacturing		5,297,817,000	5,207,906,000	5,328,871,000	5,071,847,000	4,860,041,000	4,671,347,000	4,406,329,000	4,176,150,000	3,936,269,000	3,838,905,000	3,876,350,000	3,723,364,000	4,355,073,000	4,939,948,000	5,369,926,000	5,385,426,000	5,382,860,000	5,017,929,000	5,133,564,000	5,018,552,000	5,111,119,000	4,987,684,000	4,500,077,000	4,470,309,000	4,223,193,000	4,080,550,000	3,885,541,000	3,498,939,000	3,200,852,000	2,980,704,000	3,292,025,000
Total		10,556,105,000	10,802,902,000	10,805,742,000	10,317,578,000	9,859,153,000	9,707,588,000	9,550,194,000	8,770,195,000	8,657,904,000	8,610,752,000	8,729,066,000	8,688,907,000	10,398,545,000	11,555,394,000	12,309,394,000	13,039,955,000	13,177,716,000	12,154,527,000	12,428,386,000	12,272,207,000	12,251,498,000	12,290,599,000	11,318,414,000	11,480,012,000	11,174,352,000	10,878,746,000	10,165,732,000	9,773,196,000	9,400,364,000	9,188,408,000	9,587,850,000

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Footnotes

Footnote 1

Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0202-01 (formerly CANSIM 281-0024): Employment by industry, annual. (accessed March 29, 2022).

Notes:

Employment–includes jobs held by people employed directly in the following subsectors: forestry and logging, support activities for forestry, pulp and paper product manufacturing, and wood product manufacturing.
Natural Resources Canada prefers to use employment data from Statistics Canada’s System of National Accounts (SNA) because these data are linked to the underlying framework used to compile the Canadian System of Natural Economic Accounts (e.g., GDP, national wealth).
SEPH data focus on industry and can be used for comparing direct company employment in forestry with that in other sectors.

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Footnote 2

Canadian System of National Accounts

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 36-10-0489-01 (formerly CANSIM 383-0031): Labour statistics consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA), by job category and industry. (accessed May 20, 2022).

Note: Natural Resources Canada prefers to use employment data from Statistics Canada’s System of National Accounts (SNA) because these data are linked to the underlying framework used to compile the Canadian System of Natural Economic Accounts (e.g., GDP, national wealth).

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Footnote 3

Natural resources satellite account

Source: Statistics Canada. Table 38-10-0285-01 (formerly CANSIM 388-0010): Natural resources satellite account, indicators (x 1,000,000). (accessed June 29, 2022).

Note: Data from Statistics Canada’s Natural Resources Satellite Account (NRSA) are a key source of information on the economic contribution of the forest sector in Canada. The NRSA is able to capture economic activity in forest industry segments that have traditionally been difficult to measure, such as wood furniture manufacturing.

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Footnote 4

Direct and indirect employment

Source: Natural Resources Canada–Canadian Forest Service calculated indirect employment using Statistics Canada’s National Symmetric Input-Output Tables (15-207-XCB) and National Multipliers (15F0046XDB).

Note: The calculations for indirect employment were changed in 2019 to better account for employment in the forest sector. Retroactive changes to previous years’ data have not been applied at this time.

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Footnote 5

Wages and salaries

Sources:

Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0117-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0008): Principal statistics for manufacturing industries, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (x 1,000). (accessed March 3, 2022).
Statistics Canada. Table 16-10-0114-01 (formerly CANSIM 301-0009): Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (x 1,000). (accessed May 25, 2022).

Note: Wages and salaries are the earnings, in cash or in kind, of Canadian residents for work performed before deduction of income taxes and contributions to pension funds, employment insurance and other social insurance schemes.

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