Railway Industry Employees and Compensation by Occupational Group in Canada

Annual data from Statistics Canada tracks the average number of employees and their compensation within the Canadian railway industry. The dataset is structured by major occupational groups, including general services, road maintenance, equipment maintenance, and transportation. It was last updated on April 28, 2026, and is available in XML, CSV, and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing wage disparities between occupational groups like maintenance and transportation workers.
• Tracking long-term employment trends in the railway industry's general services sector.
• Modeling labor costs for railway operations based on compensation data.
• Benchmarking workforce size in road and equipment maintenance roles against industry performance.

Strengths

• Data is provided by Statistics Canada, a national statistical agency.
• Annual time-series data allows for tracking changes over time.
• Covers four distinct occupational groups for granular analysis.
• Available under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its source, covering only Canada.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 12:58:40.339919; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada