HR BY THE NUMBERS
January 27, 2014
CANADIAN HR REPORTER
7.2%
55%
Sleep-starved workers
If you think you're seeing zombies
shuffling around the workplace, you
might be right — but don't
panic. They're not undead,
just sleep-deprived,
according to a poll
of 739 Canadian
workers.
National unemployment
rate in December, up 0.3
percentage points from
November.
46,000
Decline in employment
in December, mostly
in full-time work.
15% Gotired
to
work feeling
tock
70
60
50
40
30
a lack of sleep.
ar/Shutters
20
Credit: Aurem
20% Received resources or information from
their employer about the importance of sleep.
10
100
90
80
1:11 p.m.
They earn what?
$56,555
11
70
10
The exact time, on Jan. 2, that it took the
average top-paid Canadian CEO to earn
as much in 2014 as the average worker
will earn all year.
60
50
9
40
25,900
8
Average monthly growth
in jobs in 2012.
30
20
7
Maximum salary for a unionized food
preparer with Edmonton School District
No. 7, assuming a 40-hour workweek. Food
preparers start at $21.33 per hour ($44,366
annually) rising in six steps to $27.19. They
get three weeks' vacation to start, rising to
four weeks after eight years, five weeks after
17 years and six weeks after 25 years. They
earn 22 sick days per year, which can be
banked to a maximum of 175 days.
10
thousands
14%
Credit: Michal Dzierzynski/Shutterstock
That didn't take long
8,500
Source: Canadian Labour Reporter/www.labour-reporter.com
0
Unemployment rate for
youth (age 15 to 24) in
December, up from 13.4%
in November.
6
100
90
5
80
tock
g Yu/Shutters
6.4%
Credit: Fen
$7.96 million
Average compensation
of Canada's top 100 CEOs
in 2012.
$46,634
Average salary
4
60
50
for a Canadian
worker in 2012.
3
40
6% Increase in
earnings of an average
companies listed on the TSX
between 1998 and 2012.
Canadian worker
between 1998 and 2012.
30
2
20
10
per cent
73% Increase in CEO
pay for Canadian public
hours of the day
Compiled by Todd Humber - Source: Statistics Canada
70
The work's
getting done…
on Tuesday
Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
1
0
Most productive day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
No particular day
Don't know
14%
33%
23%
5%
6%
18%
1%
33%
Percentage of 300
Canadian HR
professionals surveyed
who say Tuesday is
the most productive
day of the week for
employees.
Source: Accountemps
Credit: Alex Millos/Shutterstock
5.6%
25%job demands for
Cite work
stress or
every day.
12
Average monthly growth
in jobs in 2013.
Unemployment rate for
women age 25 and over in
December, up from 5.3%
in November.
80
0
Overall gain in
employment in 2013,
representing growth
of 0.6%, the slowest
December-to-December
growth rate since 2009.
Unemployment rate for
men age 25 and over in
December, up from 6.2%
in November.
90
Percentage of Canadians age 18 to 24
who would rather have a good sleep
than a fun night on the town. Across
all ages, the number was two-thirds.
Source: Conference
Board of Canada
102,000
100
per cent
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