Job prospects Home Child Care Provider in Nunavut

Explore current and future job prospects for people working as a "home child care provider" in Nunavut or across Canada.

Job opportunities in Nunavut

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 10, 2025.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be Limited for home child care providers (NOC 44100) in Nunavut for the 2025-2027 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to several new positions.
• Not many positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are several unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• Nunavut aims to create 238 new childcare spaces by 2026, which may lead to job growth in this occupation. However, a chronic lack of adequate housing across the territory has reduced the availability of suitable home child care facilities and limits demand for home child care providers in the territory.
• The federal government committed $10.9 million in 2024 to help fund new childcare spaces in the territory.
• The federal government announced in March 2025 that Nunavut will receive $109M in new federal child care funding to expand $10-a-day spaces through 2031, the highest of the three territories (RCI, March 6, 2025). Nunavut is also one of six jurisdictions in Canada that have already met the federal government's $10-a-day child care target by regulating high child care costs and significantly reducing fees (CBC News, July 9, 2025).
• Local training is available.
• A diploma program in Early Childhood Development and an Early Childhood Education Applied Certificate Program are offered at Nunavut Arctic College.

Here are some key facts about home child care providers in Nunavut:

• Approximately 50 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
• Home child care providers mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Health care and social services (NAICS 62): more than 95%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 78% compared to 87% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 22% compared to 13% for all occupations
• 44% of home child care providers work all year, while 56% work only part of the year, compared to 72% and 28% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 38 weeks compared to 44 weeks for all occupations.
• 18% of home child care providers are self-employed compared to an average of less than 5% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 17% compared to 51% for all occupations
  • Women: 83% compared to 49% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: 63% compared to 37% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 25% compared to 22% 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: 13% compared to 10% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: n/a

Labour market conditions over the next 10 years

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