CIMM – IRCC Workforce Demographics– November 18, 2022
Includes all employment types occupying a substantive position. Data pulled October 21, 2022.
Percentages do not necessarily add to 100% due to rounding.
Workforce Evolution
| Workforce | |
|---|---|
| As of March 27, 2020 | 9,207 |
| As of March 26, 2021 | 9,701 |
| As of March 25, 2022 | 11,276 |
| As of October 21, 2022 | 12,192 |
Growth in the past 3 years: 34%
Workforce by Employment Type
| Employment Type | Workforce | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Indeterminate | 8,049 | 66% |
| Term | 2,782 | 23% |
| Casual | 941 | 8% |
| Students | 341 | 3% |
| Other | 79 | 1% |
- Contingent workforce = 4,143 (34%)
- Operations Sector = 8,104 (67%)
- National Capital Region = 6,854 (56%)
- Overseas = 221 (2%)
Official Languages
| First Official Language | |
|---|---|
| English | 75% |
| French | 25% |
- 4,977 (41%) positions are bilingual
- 3,409 (70%) employees in bilingual positions meet the linguistic requirements of their position
Employment Equity
Active substantive Indeterminate & term > 3 months employees
| EE Groups | All Career Levels | Executive Level | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representation | Baseline | Gap | Representation | Baseline | Gap | |
| Racialized Men | 926 (9%) | 8% | 105 | 9 (4%) | 12% | -15 |
| Racialized Women | 1,521 (16%) | 15% | 85 | 20 (10%) | 16% | -13 |
| Black Men | 372 (4%) | 2% | 205 | <5 | 2% | -2 |
| Black Women | 654 (7%) | 3% | 346 | 5 (2%) | 3% | -1 |
| Indigenous Men | 142 (1%) | 1% | 8 | <5 | 1% | 0 |
| Indigenous Women | 201 (2%) | 3% | -71 | <5 | 2% | -2 |
| Men with a Disability | 260 (3%) | 3% | -78 | 7 (3%) | 4% | -1 |
| Women with a Disability | 419 (4%) | 6% | -187 | 6 (3%) | 6% | -5 |
To ensure data confidentiality, data with less than 5 employees (<5) is suppressed.
Years of service
Indeterminate employees
- Average years in position: 3
- 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 an average of 10 years.
Departures (leaving IRCC)
| 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% |
| 2022-2023Footnote * | 40 | 138 | 77 | 74 | 329 | 7% |
The primary reason for the departure of indeterminate employees is “movement” to another department.