Major employers in Victoria

34 employers, 26 of them head offices: 17 worldwide, 0 national and 9 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers34
Worldwide HQ17
National HQ0
Regional HQ9
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Employers, largest first

People employed at the site in this city where a source publishes it; head offices without a published count follow.

CompanyHereEmployees hereWorldwide HQJobs
BC Public Service (Government of British Columbia)Public administration — provincial governmentRegional HQBritish Columbia12,1812020Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Canadian Armed Forces — Maritime Forces Pacific / CFB EsquimaltPublic administration — defence (naval base)part of Department of National Defence (Government of Canada)Regional HQRoyal Canadian Navy Pacific formation (Maritime Forces Pacific)6,000Ottawa, OntarioCareers →
Greater Victoria School District No. 61Education — K-12 school districtMajor site3,000Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
City of VictoriaPublic administration — municipal governmentMajor site1,0002024Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
BC TransitTransportation — public transitRegional HQBritish Columbia (provincial Crown transit agency outside Metro Vancouver)6802023Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
AbeBooksRetail — online book marketplacepart of Amazon.com, Inc.Worldwide HQglobal (AbeBooks online marketplace)—Seattle, WashingtonCareers →
AudetteInformation — building-decarbonization planning softwareWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British Columbia—
Cascadia SeaweedAgriculture — seaweed cultivation and kelp-based productsWorldwide HQglobal—Sidney, British ColumbiaCareers →
CertnInformation — background-screening software (SaaS)Worldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Cognito HealthHealth care — virtual mental-health treatment platformWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc.Biotechnology — clinical-stage drug developmentWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
FlytographerInformation — vacation-photography marketplace platformWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
GiftbitInformation — digital gift-card and rewards platformWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
MarineLabsInformation — maritime weather intelligence (sensors + AI data platform)Worldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
NiricsonInformation — AI infrastructure-inspection software and roboticsWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Origen AirManufacturing — air purifiers / living-wall cleantechWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British Columbia—
OthersphereInformation — site-selection software for energy infrastructureWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Pani (Pani Energy Inc.)Information — AI operations software for water treatment (SaaS)Worldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British Columbia—
Peloton TechnologiesFinance — payments platform for small businesses (FinTech)Worldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
StarFish MedicalProfessional services — medical device design and contract manufacturingWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Tiny Ltd.Information — holding company of internet and software businessesWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British Columbia—
Vecima Networks Inc.Manufacturing — broadband and video networking equipmentWorldwide HQglobal—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
BC AssessmentPublic administration — property assessmentRegional HQBritish Columbia (provincial Crown property-assessment corporation)—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
BC Ferries (British Columbia Ferry Services Inc.)Transportation — ferriesRegional HQBritish Columbia coastal ferry system—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Capital Regional DistrictPublic administration — regional government and utilitiesRegional HQCapital Region (13 municipalities and 3 electoral areas)—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Greater Victoria Harbour AuthorityTransportation — port and marina authorityRegional HQVictoria harbour (marinas, cruise terminal)—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Island Health (Vancouver Island Health Authority)Health care — regional health authority and hospitalspart of Government of British ColumbiaRegional HQVancouver Island and surrounding communities—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Legislative Assembly of British ColumbiaPublic administration — legislatureRegional HQBritish Columbia (provincial legislature)—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
CheckfrontInformation — booking softwareMajor site—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Saanich School District No. 63Education — K-12 school districtMajor site—Saanich, British ColumbiaCareers →
Seaspan Victoria ShipyardsManufacturing — ship repair and shipbuildingpart of SeaspanMajor site—North Vancouver, British ColumbiaCareers →
Sooke School District No. 62Education — K-12 school districtMajor site—Langford, British ColumbiaCareers →
University of VictoriaEducation — universityMajor site—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
Victoria Airport Authority (Victoria International Airport, YYJ)Transportation — airport operationMajor site—Victoria, British ColumbiaCareers →
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Notes on this record

  • South Island Prosperity Partnership (southislandprosperity.ca and www.) returns 403 Forbidden even for robots.txt to the ResearchUpon UA — blocked, not read.
  • Camosun College's robots.txt names anthropic-ai/ClaudeBot with Disallow: / — not fetched, so Camosun is omitted (website could not be opened).
  • Deepened 2026-10-29: 4 → 20 rows. Headcounts added for BC Public Service (Victoria CMA, 2020 workforce profile), City of Victoria, CAF/MARPAC, SD61 and BC Transit (operators/maintenance only). Island Health, BC Ferries, BC Assessment and StarFish counts are organisation-wide and sit in employeesWorldwide, not employeesHere.
  • Royal BC Museum (rbcm.ca) robots.txt names ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai with Disallow: / — not fetched, omitted.
  • Elections BC robots.txt is Disallow: / for all other agents — not fetched, omitted. thriftyfoods.com and royalroads.ca return 403 to robots.txt for the ResearchUpon UA — Thrifty Foods (Sobeys/Empire, Saanich head office) and Royal Roads University (Colwood) omitted.
  • BC Pension Corporation (a Victoria head-office Crown) omitted: pensionsbc.ca home is a member login portal and /contact-us 404s, so the head office could not be confirmed on its own site.
  • ICBC is headquartered in North Vancouver (not Victoria) — not added. victoriaedc.com is Victoria, Texas — not used.
  • Several rows (CFB Esquimalt, Seaspan Victoria Shipyards, YYJ, UVic, SD62, SD63, Vecima) are in neighbouring Capital Region municipalities, recorded because they form the Victoria labour market; each note says where.
  • Still to research: Victoria-area private head offices with verifiable sites (e.g. Country Grocer — site read but head office not stated; Monk Office; MindWalk/ImmunoPrecise — site did not mention Victoria), Schneider Electric's Saanich site, BC Hydro and federal (CRA, Coast Guard Western Region) Victoria offices.
  • Deepened 2026-10-30 (careers/funding pass): 20 → 34 rows. careersUrl added from each organisation's own site (opened and loaded); funding only where a company, investor or news page states it.
  • Blocked/omitted 2026-10-30: members.viatec.ca (VIATEC member directory and news) is behind a Cloudflare "Just a moment" challenge — not read; www.viatec.ca itself loads. bctechnology.com robots.txt names ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai with Disallow: / — not read. hyas.com (HYAS, Victoria cybersecurity, Series B) robots.txt names our agents with Disallow: / — omitted. aluula.com (ALUULA Composites, Victoria) robots.txt Disallow: / for our agents — omitted. animikii.com robots.txt Disallow: / for our agents — omitted. investors.eupraxiapharma.com returns 403 to robots.txt. uvic.mua.hrdepartment.com (UVic job board) is robots-disallowed, so UVic's careersUrl is its "Why apply" careers page; Island Health's job board (hrsmart) is linked from careers.islandhealth.ca.
  • Leads not added 2026-10-30: Blockstream (Victoria-founded; a search snippet says head office now Montreal — not confirmed); aDolus (now redirects to Exiger, acquired); Dyspatch (site now gives a Vancouver address); Plurilock (site lists Victoria among service cities but does not state a head office; being acquired by Quantum eMotion per BetaKit); Toyo (founders split Victoria/London, HQ not stated); MetaLab (Tiny subsidiary; its home page does not mention Victoria or careers); Redbrick, Freshworks Studio, Joni and Barnacle Systems (domains tried did not resolve). Eupraxia's Feb 2026 US$63.2M offering appears only in search snippets, not recorded.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-30. Each headcount links to the page it is read from; each company to its own site or its /company page.