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Employment and Social Development Canada · 2025

SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025

Every occupation Canada publishes

• Accommodation service managers $75,088
• Accommodation, travel, tourism and related services supervisors $49,400
• Accounting and related clerks $49,400
• Accounting technicians and bookkeepers $55,368
• Actors, comedians and circus performers $47,681
• Administrative assistants $52,245
• Administrative officers $57,304
• Administrators - post-secondary education and vocational training $111,466
• Advertising, marketing and public relations managers $109,253
• Aerospace engineers $98,800
• Agricultural and fish products inspectors $69,160
• Agricultural representatives, consultants and specialists $79,040
• Agricultural service contractors and farm supervisors $47,503
• Air pilots, flight engineers and flying instructors $102,752
• Air traffic controllers and related occupations $108,443
• Air transport ramp attendants $46,159
• Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors $67,184
• Aircraft instrument, electrical and avionics mechanics, technicians and inspectors $79,969
• Aircraft mechanics and aircraft inspectors $77,064
• Airline ticket and service agents $41,496
• Animal health technologists and veterinary technicians $45,448
• Announcers and other broadcasters $55,269
• Appliance servicers and repairers $55,585
• Aquaculture and marine harvest labourers $43,472
• Architects $76,945
• Architectural technologists and technicians $59,478
• Architecture and science managers $123,619
• Archivists $77,538
• Artisans and craftspersons $39,520
• Assemblers and inspectors of other wood products $43,887
• Assemblers and inspectors, electrical appliance, apparatus and equipment manufacturing $44,085
• Assemblers, fabricators and inspectors, industrial electrical motors and transformers $44,855
• Assessors, business valuators and appraisers $69,160
• Athletes $54,340
• Audio and video recording technicians $64,931
• Audiologists and speech-language pathologists $91,192
• Authors and writers (except technical) $72,737
• Auto body collision, refinishing and glass technicians and damage repair estimators $53,352
• Automotive and heavy truck and equipment parts installers and servicers $39,520
• Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers $59,063
• Bakers $34,580
• Banking, credit and other investment managers $112,909
• Banking, insurance and other financial clerks $50,052
• Bartenders $39,520
• Binding and finishing machine operators $43,472
• Biological technologists and technicians $57,541
• Biologists and related scientists $79,040
• Boat and cable ferry operators and related occupations $54,617
• Boilermakers $96,824
• Border services, customs, and immigration officers $79,238
• Bricklayers $79,040
• Broadcast technicians $73,290
• Bus drivers, subway operators and other transit operators $49,400
• Business development officers and market researchers and analysts $86,944
• Business systems specialists $89,177
• Butchers - retail and wholesale $39,520
• By-law enforcement and other regulatory officers $72,954
• Cabinetmakers $47,424
• Camera, platemaking and other prepress occupations $51,080
• Cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists $67,184
• Career development practitioners and career counsellors (except education) $59,181
• Carpenters $63,469
• Cashiers $31,616
• Casino workers $45,448
• Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing $87,932
• Central control and process operators, petroleum, gas and chemical processing $98,800
• Chain saw and skidder operators $59,280
• Chefs $45,448
• Chemical engineers $102,594
• Chemical plant machine operators $50,348
• Chemical technologists and technicians $58,885
• Chemists $75,997
• Chiropractors $62,000
• Civil engineering technologists and technicians $66,967
• Civil engineers $95,955
• Cleaning supervisors $49,400
• Coaches $49,400
• Collection clerks $55,723
• College and other vocational instructors $88,920
• Commissioned officers of the Canadian Armed Forces $108,739
• Commissioned police officers and related occupations in public protection services $135,850
• Computer and information systems managers $131,740
• Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers) $103,740
• Computer network and web technicians $71,136
• Computer systems developers and programmers $85,502
• Concrete finishers $67,184
• Concrete, clay and stone forming operators $51,376
• Conductors, composers and arrangers $36,000
• Conference and event planners $56,059
• Conservation and fishery officers $70,938
• Conservators and curators $71,847
• Construction estimators $74,772
• Construction inspectors $75,997
• Construction managers $96,271
• Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics $73,112
• Construction trades helpers and labourers $49,400
• Contractors and supervisors, carpentry trades $75,088
• Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications occupations $88,505
• Contractors and supervisors, heavy equipment operator crews $75,997
• Contractors and supervisors, landscaping, grounds maintenance and horticulture services $58,905
• Contractors and supervisors, machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations $79,040
• Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades $79,040
• Contractors and supervisors, oil and gas drilling and services $98,800
• Contractors and supervisors, other construction trades, installers, repairers and servicers $74,100
• Contractors and supervisors, pipefitting trades $95,046
• Cooks $35,568
• Corporate sales managers $118,758
• Correctional service officers $71,432
• Correspondence, publication and regulatory clerks $56,454
• Couriers and messengers $45,448
• Court clerks and related court services occupations $58,905
• Court reporters, medical transcriptionists and related occupations $51,376
• Crane operators $84,514
• Customer and information services supervisors $60,999
• Customer services representatives - financial institutions $44,460
• Customs, ship and other brokers $53,589
• Cybersecurity specialists $97,852
• Dancers $65,089
• Data entry clerks $46,436
• Data scientists $91,192
• Database analysts and data administrators $80,759
• Deck officers, water transport $81,727
• Delivery service drivers and door-to-door distributors $39,520
• Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants $53,352
• Dental hygienists and dental therapists $88,920
• Dental technologists and technicians $57,304
• Dentists $110,000
• Denturists $54,000
• Desktop publishing operators and related occupations $46,970
• Dietitians and nutritionists $82,261
• Dispatchers $55,328
• Drafting technologists and technicians $62,817
• Drillers and blasters - surface mining, quarrying and construction $74,100
• Dry cleaning, laundry and related occupations $38,532
• Early childhood educators and assistants $44,065
• Economists and economic policy researchers and analysts $95,006
• Editors $68,409
• Education policy researchers, consultants and program officers $82,044
• Educational counsellors $80,700
• Electrical and electronics engineering technologists and technicians $70,306
• Electrical and electronics engineers $100,124
• Electrical mechanics $61,256
• Electrical power line and cable workers $90,896
• Electricians (except industrial and power system) $69,160
• Electronic service technicians (household and business equipment) $52,364
• Electronics assemblers, fabricators, inspectors and testers $41,397
• Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants $49,420
• Elementary school and kindergarten teachers $85,502
• Elevator constructors and mechanics $88,920
• Employment insurance and revenue officers $68,903
• Engineer officers, water transport $73,112
• Engineering inspectors and regulatory officers $71,334
• Engineering managers $141,857
• Estheticians, electrologists and related occupations $39,520
• Executive assistants $68,409
• Executive housekeepers $42,741
• Facility operation and maintenance managers $89,315
• Film and video camera operators $71,828
• Financial advisors $71,255
• Financial and investment analysts $85,502
• Financial auditors and accountants $79,751
• Financial managers $117,532
• Financial sales representatives $62,995
• Fire chiefs and senior firefighting officers $123,777
• Firefighters $90,481
• Fish and seafood plant workers $34,086
• Fishermen/women $54,874
• Fishing masters and officers $79,554
• Fishing vessel deckhands $49,400
• Floor covering installers $51,376
• Food and beverage servers $36,556
• Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations $32,703
• Food service supervisors $37,544
• Forestry professionals $92,872
• Forestry technologists and technicians $65,149
• Foundry workers $49,400
• Funeral directors and embalmers $61,750
• Furniture and fixture assemblers, finishers, refinishers and inspectors $45,033
• Gas fitters $79,040
• General building maintenance workers and building superintendents $49,400
• General office support workers $47,404
• General practitioners and family physicians $232,227
• Geological and mineral technologists and technicians $60,327
• Geological engineers $98,425
• Geoscientists and oceanographers $98,800
• Glass forming and finishing machine operators and glass cutters $44,934
• Glaziers $59,596
• Government managers - economic analysis, policy development and program administration $125,278
• Government managers - education policy development and program administration $125,950
• Government managers - health and social policy development and program administration $121,603
• Graphic arts technicians $69,081
• Graphic designers and illustrators $61,750
• Ground and water transport ticket agents, cargo service representatives and related clerks $41,891
• Hairstylists and barbers $39,283
• Harvesting labourers $35,568
• Health information management occupations $60,288
• Health policy researchers, consultants and program officers $85,126
• Heating, refrigeration and air conditioning mechanics $74,100
• Heavy equipment operators $64,220
• Heavy-duty equipment mechanics $73,349
• Home building and renovation managers $46,800
• Home child care providers $37,544
• Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations $40,508
• Hotel front desk clerks $37,544
• Human resources and recruitment officers $65,860
• Human resources managers $113,995
• Human resources professionals $80,759
• Image, social and other personal consultants $53,016
• Industrial and manufacturing engineers $87,398
• Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers $45,448
• Industrial designers $71,255
• Industrial electricians $82,992
• Industrial engineering and manufacturing technologists and technicians $61,750
• Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics $90,896
• Industrial painters, coaters and metal finishing process operators $48,629
• Industrial sewing machine operators $35,568
• Information systems specialists $91,192
• Information systems testing technicians $69,160
• Inspectors and graders, textile, fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing $34,580
• Inspectors and testers, mineral and metal processing $51,850
• Instructors of persons with disabilities $59,280
• Insulators $74,317
• Insurance adjusters and claims examiners $69,160
• Insurance agents and brokers $59,280
• Insurance underwriters $68,409
• Insurance, real estate and financial brokerage managers $117,038
• Interior designers and interior decorators $57,008
• Ironworkers $84,968
• Janitors, caretakers and heavy-duty cleaners $42,030
• Jewellers, jewellery and watch repairers and related occupations $44,361
• Journalists $72,954
• Judges $387,006
• Kinesiologists and other professional occupations in therapy and assessment $63,232
• Labourers in chemical products processing and utilities $49,400
• Labourers in fish and seafood processing $35,568
• Labourers in food and beverage processing $39,520
• Labourers in metal fabrication $47,424
• Labourers in mineral and metal processing $50,289
• Labourers in rubber and plastic products manufacturing $40,409
• Labourers in textile processing and cutting $36,556
• Labourers in wood, pulp and paper processing $47,681
• Land survey technologists and technicians $58,786
• Land surveyors $83,387
• Landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists $59,280
• Landscape architects $80,759
• Landscaping and grounds maintenance labourers $41,002
• Lawyers and Quebec notaries $118,086
• Legal administrative assistants $54,281
• Legislators $84,000
• Letter carriers $57,008
• Librarians $81,431
• Library and public archive technicians $55,328
• Library assistants and clerks $45,784
• Library, archive, museum and art gallery managers $88,920
• Licensed practical nurses $61,888
• Light duty cleaners $39,006
• Livestock labourers $39,520
• Logging and forestry labourers $56,731
• Logging machinery operators $63,232
• Longshore workers $64,833
• Lumber graders and other wood processing inspectors and graders $54,340
• Machine fitters $69,931
• Machine operators and inspectors, electrical apparatus manufacturing $43,472
• Machine operators of other metal products $44,756
• Machine operators, mineral and metal processing $69,160
• Machining tool operators $49,400
• Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors $59,280
• Mail and parcel sorters and related occupations $51,376
• Maîtres d'hôtel and hosts/hostesses $34,738
• Managers - publishing, motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts $99,748
• Managers in agriculture $59,280
• Managers in aquaculture $63,232
• Managers in customer and personal services $67,184
• Managers in health care $109,253
• Managers in horticulture $43,077
• Managers in natural resources production and fishing $142,509
• Managers in social, community and correctional services $86,865
• Managers in transportation $104,491
• Manufacturing managers $104,372
• Massage therapists $32,867
• Material handlers $43,472
• Mathematicians, statisticians and actuaries $100,776
• Meat cutters and fishmongers - retail and wholesale $38,532
• Mechanical assemblers and inspectors $51,376
• Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians $69,160
• Mechanical engineers $90,244
• Medical administrative assistants $49,400
• Medical laboratory assistants and related technical occupations $53,352
• Medical laboratory technologists $77,064
• Medical radiation technologists $79,040
• Medical sonographers $82,992
• Metallurgical and materials engineers $95,006
• Metalworking and forging machine operators $49,400
• Meteorologists and climatologists $106,585
• Mine labourers $64,220
• Mining engineers $118,560
• Motion pictures, broadcasting, photography and performing arts assistants and operators $52,957
• Motor vehicle assemblers, inspectors and testers $64,200
• Motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle and other related mechanics $59,280
• Musicians and singers $32,867
• Natural and applied science policy researchers, consultants and program officers $85,502
• Non-destructive testers and inspectors $71,136
• Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates $47,424
• Nurse practitioners $121,603
• Nursery and greenhouse labourers $38,532
• Nursing coordinators and supervisors $91,746
• Occupational health and safety specialists $80,976
• Occupational therapists $90,896
• Oil and gas drilling, servicing and related labourers $61,256
• Oil and gas well drillers, servicers, testers and related workers $93,109
• Oil and gas well drilling and related workers and services operators $79,040
• Oil and solid fuel heating mechanics $53,352
• Operations members of the Canadian Armed Forces $67,876
• Operators and attendants in amusement, recreation and sport $34,580
• Opticians $56,316
• Optometrists $81,000
• Other administrative services managers $98,800
• Other assisting occupations in support of health services $45,448
• Other business services managers $97,278
• Other customer and information services representatives $43,472
• Other financial officers $75,997
• Other instructors $39,520
• Other labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities $39,520
• Other managers in public administration $119,568
• Other medical technologists and technicians $55,328
• Other performers $56,276
• Other practitioners of natural healing $32,867
• Other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors $43,531
• Other professional engineers $98,800
• Other professional occupations in health diagnosing and treating $56,800
• Other professional occupations in physical sciences $84,968
• Other professional occupations in social science $79,040
• Other repairers and servicers $49,400
• Other sales related occupations $37,544
• Other service support occupations $34,580
• Other services supervisors $45,646
• Other small engine and small equipment repairers $47,424
• Other support occupations in personal services $32,867
• Other technical and coordinating occupations in motion pictures, broadcasting and the performing arts $65,208
• Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment $53,056
• Other technical trades and related occupations $68,607
• Other trades helpers and labourers $47,424
• Other wood processing machine operators $50,823
• Outdoor sport and recreational guides $41,279
• Painters and decorators (except interior decorators) $55,328
• Painters, sculptors and other visual artists $58,430
• Paper converting machine operators $55,328
• Paralegals and related occupations $65,307
• Paramedical occupations $75,088
• Patternmakers - textile, leather and fur products $54,300
• Payroll administrators $59,280
• Personnel clerks $55,091
• Pest controllers and fumigators $51,297
• Pet groomers and animal care workers $35,568
• Petroleum engineers $128,242
• Pharmacists $109,648
• Pharmacy technical assistants and pharmacy assistants $39,520
• Pharmacy technicians $49,064
• Photographers $47,503
• Photographic and film processors $39,520
• Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals $92,497
• Physicists and astronomers $111,624
• Physiotherapists $91,192
• Plasterers, drywall installers and finishers and lathers $65,208
• Plastic products assemblers, finishers and inspectors $43,294
• Plastics processing machine operators $45,448
• Plateless printing equipment operators $41,496
• Plumbers $67,184
• Police investigators and other investigative occupations $110,202
• Police officers (except commissioned) $98,800
• Post-secondary teaching and research assistants $53,352
• Postal and courier services managers $87,398
• Postal services representatives $39,816
• Power engineers and power systems operators $97,278
• Power system electricians $91,983
• Primary combat members of the Canadian Armed Forces $72,499
• Printing press operators $49,400
• Probation and parole officers $79,732
• Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing $44,460
• Procurement and purchasing agents and officers $71,255
• Producers, directors, choreographers and related occupations $81,075
• Production and transportation logistics coordinators $58,272
• Production logistics workers $60,802
• Professional occupations in advertising, marketing and public relations $70,306
• Professional occupations in business management consulting $87,142
• Program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport and fitness $37,544
• Program officers unique to government $86,371
• Property administrators $61,750
• Psychologists $104,491
• Public and environmental health and safety professionals $88,920
• Public works and maintenance labourers $53,253
• Public works maintenance equipment operators and related workers $56,316
• Pulp mill, papermaking and finishing machine operators $63,252
• Pulping, papermaking and coating control operators $79,040
• Purchasing and inventory control workers $47,424
• Purchasing managers $110,873
• Pursers and flight attendants $61,750
• Railway and motor transport labourers $43,472
• Railway and yard locomotive engineers $98,800
• Railway carmen/women $82,992
• Railway conductors and brakemen/women $85,502
• Railway traffic controllers and marine traffic regulators $81,016
• Railway yard and track maintenance workers $71,136
• Real estate agents and salespersons $58,400
• Receptionists $41,496
• Records management technicians $61,888
• Recreation, sports and fitness policy researchers, consultants and program officers $61,256
• Recreation, sports and fitness program and service directors $72,381
• Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses $85,502
• Registrars, restorers, interpreters and other occupations related to museum and art galleries $40,567
• Religion workers $39,895
• Religious leaders $54,399
• Residential and commercial installers and servicers $51,376
• Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists $81,016
• Restaurant and food service managers $51,376
• Retail and wholesale buyers $59,280
• Retail and wholesale trade managers $84,454
• Retail sales supervisors $43,472
• Retail salespersons and visual merchandisers $34,205
• Roofers and shinglers $61,197
• Rubber processing machine operators and related workers $58,015
• Sales and account representatives - wholesale trade (non-technical) $62,244
• Sawmill machine operators $54,044
• School principals and administrators of elementary and secondary education $109,253
• Secondary school teachers $90,244
• Securities agents, investment dealers and brokers $84,099
• Security guards and related security service occupations $41,496
• Senior government managers and officials $129,191
• Senior managers - construction, transportation, production and utilities $90,975
• Senior managers - financial, communications and other business services $189,992
• Senior managers - trade, broadcasting and other services $83,743
• Service station attendants $31,616
• Sheet metal workers $67,322
• Sheriffs and bailiffs $66,492
• Shippers and receivers $44,460
• Shoe repairers and shoemakers $46,140
• Silviculture and forestry workers $49,400
• Social and community service workers $51,376
• Social policy researchers, consultants and program officers $84,099
• Social workers $75,997
• Software developers and programmers $95,006
• Software engineers and designers $111,624
• Specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine $311,297
• Specialists in surgery $419,180
• Specialized cleaners $37,998
• Specialized livestock workers and farm machinery operators $43,472
• Specialized members of the Canadian Armed Forces $70,010
• Sports officials and referees $37,544
• Statistical officers and related research support occupations $55,743
• Steamfitters, pipefitters and sprinkler system installers $86,727
• Store shelf stockers, clerks and order fillers $32,703
• Storekeepers and partspersons $51,376
• Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters $57,304
• Student monitors, crossing guards and related occupations $39,520
• Supervisors, electronics and electrical products manufacturing $66,492
• Supervisors, finance and insurance office workers $68,626
• Supervisors, food and beverage processing $54,340
• Supervisors, forest products processing $71,255
• Supervisors, furniture and fixtures manufacturing $56,316
• Supervisors, general office and administrative support workers $63,232
• Supervisors, library, correspondence and related information workers $70,938
• Supervisors, logging and forestry $68,864
• Supervisors, mail and message distribution occupations $62,955
• Supervisors, mineral and metal processing $71,136
• Supervisors, mining and quarrying $100,025
• Supervisors, motor transport and other ground transit operators $65,208
• Supervisors, motor vehicle assembling $68,409
• Supervisors, other mechanical and metal products manufacturing $71,136
• Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly $60,802
• Supervisors, petroleum, gas and chemical processing and utilities $84,968
• Supervisors, plastic and rubber products manufacturing $61,750
• Supervisors, printing and related occupations $59,280
• Supervisors, railway transport operations $79,040
• Supervisors, supply chain, tracking and scheduling coordination occupations $57,008
• Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing $53,352
• Support occupations in accommodation, travel and facilities set-up services $41,101
• Survey interviewers and statistical clerks $43,472
• Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners $37,544
• Taxi and limousine drivers and chauffeurs $37,544
• Technical occupations in geomatics and meteorology $75,286
• Technical sales specialists - wholesale trade $73,250
• Technical writers $71,255
• Telecommunication carriers managers $98,286
• Telecommunications equipment installation and cable television service technicians $66,789
• Telecommunications line and cable installers and repairers $71,136
• Testers and graders, food and beverage processing $49,400
• Textile fibre and yarn, hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers $44,658
• Theatre, fashion, exhibit and other creative designers $61,750
• Therapists in counselling and related specialized therapies $67,184
• Tilesetters $68,686
• Tool and die makers $67,184
• Tour and travel guides $39,520
• Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and acupuncturists $32,867
• Translators, terminologists and interpreters $67,085
• Transport truck drivers $52,206
• Transportation route and crew schedulers $64,595
• Trappers and hunters $45,902
• Travel counsellors $47,424
• Underground mine service and support workers $75,088
• Underground production and development miners $82,992
• University professors and lecturers $116,367
• Upholsterers $44,381
• Urban and land use planners $91,192
• User support technicians $62,185
• Utilities managers $120,536
• Utility maintenance workers $67,184
• Veterinarians $118,560
• Water and waste treatment plant operators $71,255
• Water transport deck and engine room crew $55,328
• Water well drillers $59,280
• Weavers, knitters and other fabric making occupations $38,058
• Web designers $66,492
• Web developers and programmers $75,997
• Welders and related machine operators $59,280
• Woodworking machine operators $43,472

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