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Job opportunities in Ontario
These outlooks were updated on November 29th, 2023. Learn more about outlooks.
Prospects over the next 3 years
The employment outlook will be moderate for Forestry technologists and technicians (NOC 22112) in Ontario 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.
What Types of Employers Are Out There?
- Public administration
- Support activities for forestry
- Electric power generation transmission and distribution
What are the Main Trends Affecting Employment?
- Increasing focus on growing and adopting sustainable forest management practices, addressing climate change and expanding urban forestry
- Provincial laws, such as the requirement for regeneration of harvested Crown lands
What Skills Do I Need to Succeed?
- Certification, such as the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Arborist, may be an asset
What Other Information Will I Find Helpful?
- This occupation is concentrated in northern Ontario.
Here are some key facts about Forestry technologists and technicians in Ontario:
- Approximately 950 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
- Forestry technologists and technicians mainly work in the following sectors:
- Utilities (NAICS 22): 20%
- Forestry and logging and fishing, hunting and trapping (NAICS 113, 114, 1153): 19%
- Local, municipal, regional, aboriginal and other public administration (NAICS 913-919): 15%
- Federal government public administration (NAICS 911): 14%
- Wood product manufacturing (NAICS 321): 9%
- The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
- Full-time workers: 95% compared to 81% for all occupations
- Part-time workers: 5% compared to 19% for all occupations
- 56% of forestry technologists and technicians work all year, while 44% work only part of the year, compared to 63% and 37% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 43 weeks compared to 43 weeks for all occupations.
- 6% of forestry technologists and technicians are self-employed compared to an average of 15% for all occupations.
- The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
- Men: 77% compared to 52% for all occupations
- Women: 23% compared to 48% for all occupations
- The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
- no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 9% for all occupations
- high school diploma or equivalent: 13% compared to 25% for all occupations
- apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 9% compared to 8% for all occupations
- college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 56% compared to 22% for all occupations
- bachelor's degree: 17% compared to 24% for all occupations
- university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 13% for all occupations
Breakdown by region
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