The province’s unemployment rate held steady at 7.0 per cent in July as employment showed little change from June, according to Statistics Canada.
Compared with a year earlier, Alberta gained 91,000 jobs, an increase of 3.5 per cent. That represented the strongest proportional year-over-year employment growth among the provinces.
The unemployment rate was down 0.9 percentage points from July 2025.
Red Deer continued to record the province’s highest seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 7.6 per cent in July, up 0.2 percentage points from June.
Lethbridge posted the lowest unemployment rate among the province’s four major regions at 5.6 per cent.
Edmonton’s unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent, while Calgary’s was 6.8 per cent.
