Job prospects Hardware Store Manager in Nunavut

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Job opportunities in Nunavut

The recent trends from the past 3 years were updated on July 25, 2025. The job outlooks over the next 3 years were updated on December 10, 2025.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be Good for retail and wholesale trade managers (NOC 60020) in Nunavut for the 2025-2027 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a moderate number of new positions.
• Several positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• Prospective workers in this occupation may benefit from Nunavut's relatively high job vacancy rate in retail trade in 2025.
• Nunavut's retail trade job vacancy rate was 7.9% in the first quarter of 2025 and 6.4% in the second quarter of 2025 according to Statistics Canada's Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (Statistic Canada, 2025).
• Retail sales are expected to increase moderately by around three percent annually over the forecast period, 2025-2027 (Conference Board of Canada, 2025).

Here are some key facts about retail and wholesale trade managers in Nunavut:

• Approximately 250 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
• Retail and wholesale trade managers mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Wholesale and Retail Trade (NAICS 41, 44-45): more than 95%
• 81% of retail and wholesale trade managers work all year, while 19% work only part of the year, compared to 72% and 28% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 47 weeks compared to 44 weeks for all occupations.
• 17% of retail and wholesale trade managers are self-employed compared to an average of less than 5% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 70% compared to 51% for all occupations
  • Women: 30% compared to 49% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: 15% compared to 37% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 33% compared to 22% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 10% compared to 11% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 21% compared to 15% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 19% compared to 10% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 6% for all occupations