OLLO – IRCC Workforce Demographics – February 6, 2023
Includes all employment types occupying a substantive position. Data pulled January 6, 2023. 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 January 06, 2023 | 12,619 |
Growth in the past 3 years: 41%
Workforce by Employment Type
| Employment Type | Workforce | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Indeterminate | 8,411 | 67% |
| Term | 2,901 | 23% |
| Casual | 974 | 8% |
| Students | 272 | 2% |
| Other | 61 | 0% |
- Contingent workforce = 4,208 (33%)
- Operations Sector = 8,436 (67%)
- National Capital Region = 7,033 (56%)
- Overseas = 219 (2%)
Ukraine - As at December 21, 2022, 80.6 new incremental FTEs hired for the Special Measures.
As of Jan 27th 2023, 3,102 employees are francophone (24% of IRCC’s workforce) of which 2,102 (67.8%) are in the NCR, 61 (2.0%) are overseas and 939 (30.3%) are in the regions, mostly in the Québec region.
Official Languages
| First Official Language | |
|---|---|
| English | 75% |
| French | 24% |
- 5,079 (41=0%) positions are bilingual
- 3,362 (67%) 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 | 986 (10%) | 8% | 139 | 9 (4%) | 11% | -15 |
| Racialized Women | 1,680 (16%) | 15% | 117 | 21 (10%) | 17% | -15 |
| Black Men | 415 (4%) | 2% | 243 | <5 | 2% | -2 |
| Black Women | 718 (7%) | 3% | 399 | 5 (2%) | 3% | -2 |
| Indigenous Men | 150 (1%) | 1% | 8 | <5 | 1% | 0 |
| Indigenous Women | 209 (2%) | 3% | -78 | <5 | 2% | -2 |
| Men with a Disability | 289 (3%) | 3% | -62 | 8 (4%) | 4% | 0 |
| Women with a Disability | 465 (4%) | 6% | -167 | 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: 6%
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 | 172 | 110 | 132 | 465 | 8% |
The primary reason for the departures of indeterminate employees is “movement” to another department.