NAICS 9122Industry group · 4-digitregional market1 market record

Provincial labour and employment services

This industry group comprises establishments of provincial and territorial governments primarily engaged in labour market research and dealing in matters pertaining to employer-employee relations, including the promotion of improved working conditions and the provision of arbitration and conciliation services in collective bargaining. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 44
Under 10 employeesA: 57%

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

1–41023%

5–91534%

10–19511%

20–49614%

50–9925%

100–199614%

200–4990—

500+0—

Of 44 Canadian establishments with employees, 57% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Quebec2045%

Prince Edward Island920%

Ontario716%

British Columbia49%

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.

regional competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 912 Provincial and territorial public administration

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.

Operating businessScreened

Provincial Labour & Employment ServicesStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost + regulatory drag

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.

NAICS 91224 vendors named6 sourced figuresOpen →

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.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Case management, licensing and registries, bought by tender.

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 · 2

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
MaximusNYSE:MMS	Provincial labour and employment services9122	—	1/2
Occupational health and safety consultancies and training providersPrivate	Provincial labour and employment services9122	—	2/2

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

Occupations in front-line public protection services

Concentrated in this sectorA

Managers in public protection services One industry 98.5%

Police investigators and probation officers One industry 97.6%

Primary combat members of the Canadian Armed Forces One industry 97.2%

Occupations in front-line public protection services One industry 96.5%

Managers in public administration One industry 95.3%

Assisting occupations in legal and public protection One industry 93.1%

Water and rail transport operators and labourers and related occupations Mostly one sector 44.2%

Library, correspondence and other clerks Mostly one sector 23.5%

Architects, urban planners and land surveyors Mostly one sector 19.4%

Judges, lawyers and Quebec notaries One industry 15.5%

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

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 28.8%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 28%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 18.9%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 12.4%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 12.3%

Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical Across the economy 11.8%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 10.7%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.5%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.4%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 7%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 9122, and 2 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
91221	Provincial labour and employment services	44	screened at 9122

Alongside it, under 912 Provincial and territorial public administration

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
9121	Provincial protective services	546	Court & Justice Case Management
9129	Other provincial and territorial public administration	1,597	Other Provincial Government Administration