Saskatchewan has the second highest job vacancy rate among the provinces, while the ratio of unemployed people to job vacancies is the second lowest in Canada.
Statistics Canada says Saskatchewan had 8,300 job vacancies in the three-month average ending in December 2013.
The ratio of unemployed people to job vacancies in the province was 2.4, up from 1.8 a year earlier, as the number of vacancies fell faster than the number of unemployed people.
Nationally, there were 6.3 unemployed people for every job vacancy, up from 5.7 in December 2012.
