NOC 2021 · minor groupMostly one sector1 industry tagged

Security guards and related security service occupations

107,530 people in Canada, 69.7% of them in Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services. 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
107,530
Canada, 2021 Census
Sectors employing itA
11
of 20, at 1% or more
Largest sectorA
69.7%
Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
Median pay
$43,680
across 1 job title
01

Where this work is done

The measured share of everyone in this occupation, by sector. It leans to one sector without belonging to it.

02

The jobs inside it

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

Security guards and related security service occupations 64410
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.

IndustryCodeEstablishments · CA
Investigation and security services56163,563

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.