IRCC Workforce Demographics
Includes all employment types occupying a substantive position. Data pulled on September 1, 2023.
Percentages do not necessarily add to 100% due to rounding.
Workforce Evolution
| As of March 27, 2020 | 9,207 |
|---|---|
| As of March 26, 2021 | 9,701 |
| As of March 25, 2022 | 11,276 |
| As of March 31, 2023 | 13,136 |
| As of September 1, 2023 | 13,685 |
Growth in the past 3 years: 52%
Workforce by Employment Type
| Indeterminate | 9,421 | 69% |
|---|---|---|
| Term | 3,334 | 24% |
| Casual | 670 | 5% |
| Students | 217 | 2% |
| Other | 43 | 0% |
Contingent workforce = 4,264 (31%)
Operations Sector = 9,103 (67%)
National Capital Region = 7,677 (56%)
Overseas = 222 (2%)
Ukraine - As of December 21, 2022, 80.6 new incremental Full Time Equivalents hired for the Special Measures.
Official Languages
| English | 76% |
|---|---|
| French | 24% |
5,541 (40%) positions are bilingual
3,715 (67%) employees in bilingual positions meet the linguistic requirements of their position
3,253 employees are Francophone of which 2,206 (68%) are in the NCR, 59 (2%) are overseas and 988 (30%) are in the regions, mostly in the Québec region.
Employment Equity
Active substantive Indeterminate & term > 3 months employees
| EE Group | All Career Levels | Executive Level | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representation | Baseline | Gap | Representation | Baseline | Gap | |
| Racialized Men | 1139 (10%) | 8% | 192 | 12 (5%) | 11% | -15 |
| Racialized Women | 2010 (17%) | 15% | 239 | 29 (13%) | 17% | -9 |
| Black Men | 525 (4%) | 2% | 332 | <5 | - | -1 |
| Black Women | 899 (8%) | 3% | 537 | 6 (3%) | 3% | -1 |
| Indigenous Men | 184 (2%) | 1% | 24 | 5 (2%) | 1% | 2 |
| Indigenous Women | 247 (2%) | 3% | -79 | <5 | - | -3 |
| Men with a Disability | 384 (3%) | 3% | -8 | 13 (6%) | 4% | 4 |
| Women with a Disability | 623 (5%) | 6% | -94 | 9 (4%) | 6% | -4 |
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: 14
First position in public service is at IRCC: 7%
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | 34 | 105 | 127 | 241 | 507 | 8% |
| 2022-2023 | 20 | 117 | 112 | 177 | 426 | 6% |
| 2023-2024Table footnote * | 51 | 152 | 115 | 193 | 511 | 7% |
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