Job prospects Primary Care Paramedic in Manitoba

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Job opportunities in Manitoba

These outlooks were updated on November 29, 2023.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be very good for Paramedical occupations (NOC 32102) in Manitoba for the 2023-2025 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

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

• A growing and aging population are expected to increase the demand for emergency medical care services, supporting job opportunities in this occupation.
• Paramedic job vacancies in rural Manitoba have tripled in the last two years, according to the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals. In spring of 2023, nearly one in three rural paramedic jobs were vacant, with just 499 of 717 positions filled.
• The provincial government allocated an additional $200M in 2023 to its Health Care Human Resource Action Plan, launched in 2022 with the goal of hiring 2,000 health care workers. New initiatives include advanced training for rural and northern paramedics.

Here are some key facts about Paramedical occupations in Manitoba:

• Approximately 1,550 people work in this occupation.
• Paramedical occupations mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Ambulatory health care services (NAICS 621): 52%
  • Local, municipal, regional, aboriginal and other public administration (NAICS 913-919): 23%
  • Hospitals (NAICS 622): 19%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 93% compared to 81% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 7% compared to 19% for all occupations
• 81% of paramedical occupations work all year, while 19% work only part of the year, compared to 65% and 35% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 48 weeks compared to 43 weeks for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 59% compared to 53% for all occupations
  • Women: 41% compared to 47% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 8% compared to 31% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 30% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 46% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 14% compared to 20% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 8% for all occupations

Breakdown by region

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