NOC 2021 · minor groupMostly one sector4 industries tagged

Auditors, accountants and investment professionals

391,235 people in Canada, 43.1% of them in Finance and insurance. Between 40% and 70% of the people doing this work in one sector. The others exist everywhere else — which usually means most businesses buy this work in rather than employing it.

EmployedA
391,235
Canada, 2021 Census
Sectors employing itA
15
of 20, at 1% or more
Largest sectorA
43.1%
Finance and insurance
Median pay
$83,949
across 5 job titles
01

Where this work is done

The measured share of everyone in this occupation, by sector. It is spread across the economy — a job almost any employer might have.

Finance and insurance 43.1%
Professional, scientific and technical services 24.2%
Public administration 7.7%
Manufacturing 3.8%
Retail trade 2.4%
Wholesale trade 2.2%
Real estate and rental and leasing 2.2%
Construction 2.1%
Health care and social assistance 1.7%
Transportation and warehousing 1.5%
Other services (except public administration) 1.3%
Information and cultural industries 1.3%
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 1.3%
Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services 1.2%
Educational services 1.1%
Utilities 1%
02

The jobs inside it

Statistics Canada counts these together as one minor group. These are the job titles underneath.

Financial auditors and accountants 11100Financial and investment analysts 11101Financial advisors 11102Securities agents, investment dealers and brokers 11103Other financial officers 11109
03

The industries that employ it

Which NAICS industries these people work in. The sector above is measured; naming the industry group inside it is judgmentUNVERIFIED, made because the measured data shows this job is concentrated.

Accountants at 5412; analysts, advisors and securities agents across finance.

IndustryCodeEstablishments · CA
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services541221,743
Non-depository credit intermediation52222,191
Securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage52312,642
Other financial investment activities523912,360

Market records in those industries

Accounting Practice Management (541212)One thing must be trueMortgage Origination & Servicing Systems (5222)One thing must be trueCapital Markets & Post-Trade Systems (5231)Structure decidesFinancial Data & Credit Analytics (5239)One thing must be true

Sources for this page

The sector split is a count; the industry tag is a reading of it. Statistics Canada publishes this cross-tabulation against the twenty NAICS sectors and no finer, so everything above the industry table is measured and the table itself is judgment — offered because "which industry employs a veterinarian" has a useful answer that the published data stops just short of.