There were more people working in the Cariboo region compared to a year ago, but the unemployment rate was still up slightly overall.
Julian Alvarez, a Labour Market Analyst with Stats Canada, says the jobless rate was 5.7% last month, up from 5.3 in June of 2025.
There was an increase of almost 13-hundred jobs, mostly full-time, and most of the increases were in wholesale and retail trade and in manufacturing.
Alvarez says there was a decline in the forestry and mining sector.
The national unemployment rate was 6.5%, down from 6.6 in May.
BC’s jobless rate was 6.5% in June as well.
That was tied for 4th out of the provinces.
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- Manitoba – 5.4 per cent
- Quebec – 5.4 per cent
- Saskatchewan– 6.1 per cent
- British Columbia– 6.5 per cent
- Nova Scotia– 6.5 per cent
- Ontario – 7.0 per cent
- Alberta – 7.0 per cent
- New Brunswick– 7.3 per cent
- Prince Edward Island – 7.6 per cent
- Newfoundland and Labrador – 8.2 per cent
