The unemployment rate in Saskatchewan declined to the lowest it has been since April 2015 in February.  

Statistics Canada, in the monthly labour force survey, reported that there were 7,400 more people working in Saskatchewan in February compared to January. This brought the provincial unemployment rate down to 4.7 percent, the second-lowest in the country, and lower than the national unemployment rate. 

Year over year, the gains saw 30,100 more people working. Many of those jobs were in the wholesale and retail trade industry. There were also 6,000 more people working in education resources, and 5,300 more working in the information, culture and recreation industries. 

"With significant job gains and a low unemployment rate that continues to drop, Saskatchewan's economy is on the right track as we come out of the pandemic and transition to living with COVID-19," Immigration and Career Training Minister Jeremy Harrison said.  "With record agricultural and merchandise exports in 2021, and the strongest year-over-year growth in manufacturing sales and wholesale trade in Canada, opportunities abound for businesses, entrepreneurs, and workers in Saskatchewan." 

The numbers also show the province seeing its employment levels above where they were at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report from Statistics Canada indicated there were 582,000 people working in Saskatchewan. This is above the number of people who were working before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in February of 2020.