Major Industries

Service Sector
The service sector includes a wide range of industries that provide services to individuals, businesses and governments.

It includes a wide variety of industries, ranging from transportation, communication, real estate and financial services to retailing, hairstyling, education, health and public administration.

Goods Sector
The goods sector includes all primary and secondary industries.  An industry that harvests, extracts or transforms raw materials into a product that can be handled or stored is a goods-producing industry.

The goods sector includes industries such as agriculture, fishing, forestry, mining, manufacturing, construction and utilities.  In BC, manufacturing is the largest industry within this sector and construction is the second largest industry.  Primary resource extraction and harvesting, including agriculture, logging, mining and fishing, collectively account for one in six jobs in this sector in BC.