CIMM – IRCC Workforce Demographics – May 12, 2022
Includes all employment types occupying a substantive position. Data pulled March 25, 2022.
Workforce Evolution
| Workforce | |
|---|---|
| As of March 27, 2020 | 9,207 |
| As of March 26, 2021 | 9,701 |
| As of March 25, 2022 | 11,276 |
Growth in the past 3 years: 32%
Workforce by Employment Type
| Employment Type | Workforce | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Indeterminate | 7,595 | 67% |
| Term | 1,906 | 17% |
| Casual | 1,427 | 13% |
| Students | 319 | 3% |
| Other | 29 | 0% |
- Contingent workforce = 3,628 (32%)
- Operations Sector = 7,498 (67%)
- National Capital Region = 6,335 (56%)
- Oversea = 240 (2%)
Official Languages
- First official language English 75%
- First official language French 25%
- 4,800 (43%) positions are bilingual
- 3,695 (77%) employees in bilingual positions meet the linguistic requirements of their position
Employment Equity
Active substantive Indeterminate & term > 3 months employees
| EE Group | All Career Levels | Executive Level | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representation | Baseline | Gap | Representation | Baseline | Gap | |
| Racialized Men | 805 (9%) | 8% | 99 | 9 (4%) | 12% | -20 |
| Racialized Women | 1,378 (16%) | 15% | 89 | 21 (9%) | 15% | -14 |
| Black Men | 303 (4%) | 2% | 158 | <5 | 2% | -2 |
| Black Women | 486 (6%) | 3% | 220 | <5 | 3% | -3 |
| Indigenous Men | 107 (1%) | 1% | -5 | <5 | 2% | 0 |
| Indigenous Women | 170 (2%) | 3% | -52 | <5 | 2% | -2 |
| Men with a Disability | 193 (2%) | 3% | -98 | 9 4% | 4% | -1 |
| Women with a Disability | 311 (4%) | 6% | -207 | 6 3% | 5% | -6 |
To ensure data confidentiality, data with less than 5 employees (<5) is suppressed.
Years of service
Indeterminate employees
- Average years in position: 4
- Average years at IRCC: 9
- Average years in public service: 16
- First position in public service is at IRCC: 5%
Operations Sector and Settlement and Integration Sector employees have been at IRCC the longest, with on average 10 years.
Departures
Indeterminate employees
| Resignation | Other | Retirement | Movement | Total | Departure rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-2020 | 34 | 105 | 127 | 241 | 507 | 8% |
| 2020-2021 | 20 | 117 | 112 | 177 | 426 | 6% |
| 2021-2022 | 51 | 152 | 115 | 193 | 511 | 7% |
The primary reason for the departures of indeterminate employees is “movement” to another department.