Job prospects Administrative Assistant in British Columbia

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Job opportunities in British Columbia

These outlooks were updated on December 11, 2024.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be good for Administrative assistants (NOC 13110) in British Columbia for the 2024-2026 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a moderate number of new positions.
• Several positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a moderate number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

Some job functions for this occupation may change with continuing adoption of artificial intelligence for data analytics, natural language processing, marketing automation, virtual agents, and/or robotics process automation.

Some job functions for this occupation may change with continuing adoption of information and communication technologies, specifically cloud computing, to improve data management and business decision making.

Here are some key facts about Administrative assistants in British Columbia:

• Approximately 27,600 people work in this occupation.
• Administrative assistants mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Elementary and secondary schools (NAICS 6111): 8%
  • Construction (NAICS 23): 7%
  • Hospitals (NAICS 622): 5%
  • Monetary Authorities - central bank and securities, commodity contracts and other intermediation and related activities (NAICS 521, 522, 523): 5%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 74% compared to 78% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 26% compared to 22% for all occupations
• 60% of administrative assistants work all year, while 40% work only part of the year, compared to 61% and 39% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 42 weeks compared to 42 weeks for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 8% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: 92% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 8% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 31% compared to 28% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 12% compared to 13% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 24% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 22% compared to 22% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: 7% compared to 12% for all occupations

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