City of Surrey 2019 Annual Financial Report

STATISTICAL REVIEW

Unemployment Rates*

Unemployment Rates (as of December 2019)

Source: BC Stats

8%

British Columbia

Metro Vancouver*

7%

6%

5%

4%

3%

2%

1%

0

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

*Metro Vancouver includes Anmore, Belcarra, Bowen Island, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley (City and District), Lions Bay, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, North Vancouver (City and District), Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver, West Vancouver, White Rock, and Electoral Area A

Full Time Equivalent Employes Full Time Equivalent* Employees (as of December 31, 2019)

Source: Corporate Services Department

3,000

2,848

2,810

2,698

2,500

2,615

2,455

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

0

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

*Full-time equivalent (FTE)—A term expressing the amount of time for which a position has been budgeted in relation to the amount of time a regular full-time employee normally works in a year. Most full-time employees (1.00 FTE) are paid either 1,820 or 1,950 hours in a year, depending on their staffing position requirements.

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