Image: Tourism Abbotsford / The unemployment rate across B.C. has dipped as the number of part-time jobs increase in the summer.

By Alyssa Conti

JUNE JOBS REPORT

Abby-Mission unemployment dips while Chilliwack loses 1,200 jobs in June: StatCan

Jul 11, 2025 | 9:08 AM

CHILLIWACK — The labour pendulum has swung this summer, following months of steady employment in Chilliwack and rising joblessness in Abbotsford-Mission, according to the June jobs report.

Chilliwack has lost 1,200 jobs and returned to its April unemployment rate of 6.1 per cent, after dipping below 6 per cent in May.

Abbotsford-Mission shaved a few points off its joblessness rate from 7 to 6.5 per cent, adding just about 100 jobs in June.

Unemployment figures across the province also improved last month, with a roughly 5,000-job increase and a decrease in unemployment from 6.4 to 5.6 per cent– but Conservative jobs critic Gavin Dew is unconvinced.

“Only the Eby NDP would try to spin more part-time gigs, fewer full-time careers, and the highest youth jobless rate since the 1990s as good news,” wrote the Kelowna-Mission MLA.

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“This isn’t a strong economy. It’s a stalled economy – where young people can’t find work, businesses are too weighed down to hire, and the government keeps pretending everything’s fine.”

Part-time jobs grew by 21,300 against a drop of 16,300 in full-time positions in the past month.

Visitor economy grows in June

As people kick off their summer vacations, the number of jobs to meet their needs has also grown in the past month.

Across the province, accommodation and food services saw the largest monthly increase, with approximately 8,000 jobs added. The category of other services, which includes a wide range of services such as repair, laundry or pet care, also grew by 4,600. Local data is not available in the jobs report.

“This past month, B.C. continued to drive forward the work to grow a stronger, more diverse economy and help protect and create good-paying jobs. We doubled down on our efforts to diversify trade in Asia and Europe, and remove interprovincial trade barriers across Canada,” said Minister of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation Diana Gibson.

“This week, British Columbia became one of the 10 signatories to the Committee on Internal Trade’s memorandum of understanding on direct-to-consumer sales of wine, spirits, beer or other alcoholic beverages, effective May 2026. There are already positive results for businesses due to the work to advance B.C. and Alberta’s direct-to-consumer wine sales, with a seven-fold increase in product moving across our border.”

Agriculture went down by 8 per cent in the past month, while manufacturing and the category of transportation and warehousing each lost 4,800 jobs.

More information is available on Statistics Canada’s June Labour Force Survey.