Job prospects Food And Beverage Server in Northwest Territories

Explore current and future job prospects for people working as a "food and beverage server" in Northwest Territories or across Canada.

Job opportunities in Northwest Territories

The recent trends from the past 3 years were updated on July 25, 2025. The job outlooks over the next 3 years were updated on December 11, 2024.

Moderate

The employment outlook will be Moderate for food and beverage servers (NOC 65200) in Northwest Territories for the 2025-2027 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

Employment growth will lead to a few new positions.
Not many positions will become available due to retirements.
There are a moderate number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.
High employee turnover in this occupation could lead to additional employment opportunities.

Most job opportunities in this occupation are in the Yellowknife area.
Employers in Yellowknife have struggled to fill vacancies in this occupation in 2025.
From 2021-2040, 115 job openings are forecast for food and beverage servers in the Northwest Territories (Government of Northwest Territories, May 2023).

Here are some key facts about food and beverage servers in Northwest Territories:

Approximately 50 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
Food and beverage servers mainly work in the following sectors:
- Tourism & Culture (NAICS 51, 71-72): more than 95%
The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
- Full-time workers: 44% compared to 88% for all occupations
- Part-time workers: 56% compared to 12% for all occupations
44% of food and beverage servers work all year, while 56% work only part of the year, compared to 71% and 28% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 39 weeks compared to 44 weeks for all occupations.
17% of food and beverage servers are self-employed compared to an average of 7% for all occupations.
The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
- Men: 18% compared to 52% for all occupations
- Women: 82% compared to 48% for all occupations
The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
- no high school diploma: 31% compared to 17% for all occupations
- high school diploma or equivalent: 44% compared to 26% for all occupations
- apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: n/a
- college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: n/a
- bachelor's degree: n/a
- university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: n/a

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