Provincial and territorial public administration
This subsector comprises establishments of provincial or territorial governments primarily engaged in activities of a governmental nature, such as legislative activities, judicial activities, taxation, public order and safety, and the administration of provincial or territorial government programs. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A
- Establishments · CanadaA
- 2,187
- Under 10 employeesA
- 30%
Size and shape
How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.
Canadian establishments by number of employeesA
Of 2,187 Canadian establishments with employees, 30% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.
Where they areA
Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.
No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.
How businesses here compete
The structural profile of subsector 912, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.
Provincial government as a buyer. Procurement rules and reference requirements favour incumbents.
- Who sets the price
- Not applicable.
- The software it runs on
- Case management, licensing and registries, bought by tender.
Market screens and studies
Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.
Provincial labour ministries, employment-standards branches and workers' compensation administration: 44 establishments [A], a few per province. This is a buyer, not a market to enter: the activity is a function of government, carried out under statute by public servants, and no licence, acquisition or amount of capital lets a private entrant perform it. What is enterable sits around it. Provinces contract out employment services to private and non-profit providers on outcome-based agreements (5613, and 6243 for vocational rehabilitation, where the record argues that contract rates are not set at a level that funds the service). Occupational health and safety consulting, training and compliance software are sold to the employers these ministries regulate rather than to the ministries. The cut factor is recorded as entry cost and regulatory drag because that is the nearest the screening model comes to 'not available to private parties' — the barrier is not high, it is absolute, and everything interesting is in what gets sold across it.
The residual for provincial and territorial administration — and the largest block in the sector: 1,597 establishments, 434 employing a hundred or more [A]. Ministries, agencies, boards and commissions. This is a buyer, not a market to enter: the activity is a function of government, carried out under statute by public servants, and no licence, acquisition or amount of capital lets a private entrant perform it. Ten provinces and three territories each run their own procurement with their own vendor-of-record lists, which makes this thirteen markets, not one. That fragmentation is an opening for a vendor with a regional base and a closed door for one without: reference customers inside the province matter more than price. Software sold here is screened at 912110. The cut factor is recorded as entry cost and regulatory drag because that is the nearest the screening model comes to 'not available to private parties' — the barrier is not high, it is absolute, and everything interesting is in what gets sold across it.
Software serving this industry
The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.
And what every business buys · 25 generic categories
Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.
Companies in this industry · 7
Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.
| Company | Filed under | Revenue | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler TechnologiesNYSE:TYL | Provincial courts of law912110 | $2.3B | 1/4 |
| MaximusNYSE:MMS | Provincial labour and employment services9122 | — | 1/2 |
| EquivantPrivate | Provincial courts of law912110 | — | 2/4 |
| Journal TechnologiesPrivate | Provincial courts of law912110 | — | 3/4 |
| Occupational health and safety consultancies and training providersPrivate | Provincial labour and employment services9122 | — | 2/2 |
| Serial acquirers of provincial vertical softwarePrivate | Other provincial and territorial public administration9129 | — | 1/1 |
| Thomson Reuters C-TrackPrivate | Provincial courts of law912110 | — | 4/4 |
Who works here
The occupations employed in Public administration, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.
Tagged to this industry
Concentrated in this sectorA
These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.
And the jobs every business has
Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.
Inside this industry
3 rows sit directly beneath 912, and 19 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9121 | Provincial protective services | 546 | Court & Justice Case Management |
| 9122 | Provincial labour and employment services | 44 | Provincial Labour & Employment Services |
| 9129 | Other provincial and territorial public administration | 1,597 | Other Provincial Government Administration |