Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades salary in Canada
$79,040CAD/YR
Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades in Canada earn a median of $79,040 a year, about $40.00 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $79,040 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $56,037. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $62,706 buys in the United States. Those are two answers to two different questions, and the distance between them is the thing worth reading — here it is a factor of 1.12.
At the exchange rate At local prices The disagreement
The hollow marker is the exchange-rate reading: what the money is worth if it leaves. The solid marker is the purchasing-power reading: what it is worth if it stays. The hatched span between them is the disagreement, and it is what every single-country salary site leaves out.
SOURCE·European Central Bank reference rates (via Frankfurter) and World Bank PPP conversion factor PA.NUS.PRVT.PP·FX 2026-07-29·REVIEWED PPP 2025
How Canada arrived at this figure, and what it is not
- Employment and Social Development Canada publishes Job Bank wage data for the reference period 2025. We take the occupation row as released and change nothing in it.
- 2021 Census wage distributions by NOC and economic region
- Where the agency publishes a distribution we carry the whole distribution, because a single average throws away the part of the answer people are actually asking about.
- The wage is then read twice: converted at the European Central Bank reference rate for 2026-07-29, and divided by the World Bank purchasing-power conversion factor for CAN. Both readings are printed; neither is presented as the answer.
- Countries measure pay differently. A tax return, an employer payroll survey, a PAYE sample and a household survey are four different instruments, and gaps of a few per cent between countries are the instruments, not the wages.
converted = CAD 79,040 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 79,040 / PPP(CAN) disagreement = adjusted / converted
Where it pays more in Canada
Median pay for this occupation by area, highest-employing first.
| Area | Median | vs national |
|---|---|---|
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | $98,780 | +25% |
| Northeast | $90,797 | +15% |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | $90,639 | +15% |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | $90,639 | +15% |
| Cariboo | $90,461 | +14% |
| British Columbia | $88,920 | +13% |
| Lower Mainland | $88,920 | +13% |
| Kootenay | $87,616 | +11% |
| Calgary | $87,300 | +10% |
| Edmonton | $86,470 | +9% |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | $86,410 | +9% |
| Northwest | $86,391 | +9% |
| North Coast | $85,462 | +8% |
| Alberta | $84,968 | +8% |
| Thompson--Okanagan | $84,731 | +7% |
| Camrose--Drumheller | $84,415 | +7% |
| Red Deer | $84,138 | +6% |
| Yukon Territory | $82,518 | +4% |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | $82,498 | +4% |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | $81,431 | +3% |
| Interlake | $81,273 | +3% |
| Kingston--Pembroke | $80,285 | +2% |
| South Central | $79,593 | +1% |
| Northeast | $79,040 | +0% |
| Manitoba | $79,040 | +0% |
Regional figures come from the same release as the national one. Where an area is missing, the source suppressed it for sample-size reasons rather than reporting an unreliable estimate.
Every figure this page rests on
| Reading | CAD | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Median | $79,040 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $81,806 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $61,987 | — |
| 75th percentile | $98,800 | — |
| Hourly | $40.00 | Median at 38 hrs/week |
Employment and Social Development Canada · 2025
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What people ask next
- How much do contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades earn in Canada?
- The median is $79,040 a year, about $40.00 an hour, according to Employment and Social Development Canada, Job Bank wage data 2025.
- Is that figure before or after tax?
- Before. Every figure on this page is gross pay as the statistics agency published it — income tax, social contributions and any deductions come off afterwards, and they differ enough between countries that we do not model them.
- Why is the US-dollar figure different depending on where I read it?
- Because there are two of them. $79,040 converts to $56,037 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $62,706 buys in the United States once Canada's price level is accounted for. The first answers "what could I wire abroad", the second answers "how well does someone live on this".
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