Jobs in Manitoba

Manitoba’s job market centres on Winnipeg, where most of the province’s population lives, with smaller hubs in Brandon, Steinbach, Thompson and Winkler. Manufacturing, health care, agriculture and food processing, transportation and financial services provide most openings.

The economy is unusually balanced, so hiring tends to be steadier here than in resource-heavy provinces. Winnipeg builds buses and aerospace components and sits on main east-west rail and trucking routes, which keeps warehouse and driver jobs plentiful. Outside the city, farm operations and food plants hire for seeding, harvest and processing seasons, and northern communities need nurses, teachers and tradespeople year-round. Housing costs are lower than in most large Canadian cities. See jobs in Winnipeg, or browse manufacturing jobs and logistics and transportation jobs.

Job market snapshot: Manitoba, October 2026

Employers advertised 1,862 job postings in Manitoba on Job Bank in October 2026, covering 3,233 vacancies. About 92% were full-time. The median advertised wage among hourly-paid postings was $19.76 an hour.

Source: Job Bank open data, Employment and Social Development Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Figures count postings first advertised on Job Bank that month. They are not a count of jobs open on JobsNearMe.ca today.