Labourers in mineral and metal processing salary in Canada
$50,289CAD/YR
Labourers in mineral and metal processing in Canada earns a median of $50,289 a year, about $25.45 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $50,289 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $35,653. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $39,897 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 50,289 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 50,289 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | $77,064 | +53% |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | $70,227 | +40% |
| Montérégie | $56,672 | +13% |
| Northeast | $55,822 | +11% |
| British Columbia | $55,308 | +10% |
| Quebec | $54,063 | +8% |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | $53,984 | +7% |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | $52,720 | +5% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $51,376 | +2% |
| Saskatchewan | $51,376 | +2% |
| Lower Mainland | $51,238 | +2% |
| Ontario | $49,400 | -2% |
| Alberta | $49,400 | -2% |
| Edmonton | $49,400 | -2% |
| Calgary | $49,242 | -2% |
| Windsor--Sarnia | $48,116 | -4% |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | $47,424 | -6% |
| Montréal | $46,159 | -8% |
| Manitoba | $45,902 | -9% |
| Toronto | $43,512 | -13% |
| New Brunswick | $43,472 | -14% |
| Winnipeg | $43,472 | -14% |
| Nova Scotia | $42,405 | -16% |
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 | $50,289 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $54,557 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $42,978 | — |
| 75th percentile | $62,995 | — |
| Hourly | $25.45 | 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 does labourers in mineral and metal processing earn in Canada?
- The median is $50,289 a year, about $25.45 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. $50,289 converts to $35,653 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $39,897 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".
Related occupations in Canada
- 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
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- 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
- Other labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities $39,520
