Religion workers salary in Canada
$39,895CAD/YR
Religion workers in Canada earn a median of $39,895 a year, about $20.19 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $39,895 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $28,285. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $31,651 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 39,895 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 39,895 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | $55,249 | +38% |
| Outaouais | $52,463 | +32% |
| Red Deer | $50,823 | +27% |
| Edmonton | $50,072 | +26% |
| Quebec | $49,400 | +24% |
| Nova Scotia | $49,005 | +23% |
| Calgary | $48,946 | +23% |
| Lanaudière | $48,787 | +22% |
| Alberta | $48,768 | +22% |
| Halifax | $48,748 | +22% |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | $48,491 | +22% |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | $48,412 | +21% |
| Estrie | $48,392 | +21% |
| Montréal | $48,392 | +21% |
| Capitale-Nationale | $48,293 | +21% |
| Laval | $48,195 | +21% |
| Montérégie | $47,207 | +18% |
| Mauricie | $46,950 | +18% |
| South Central | $46,732 | +17% |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | $46,238 | +16% |
| Laurentides | $46,100 | +16% |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | $46,100 | +16% |
| New Brunswick | $46,061 | +15% |
| Moncton--Richibucto | $45,171 | +13% |
| Southeast | $45,033 | +13% |
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 | $39,895 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $46,653 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $33,592 | — |
| 75th percentile | $49,400 | — |
| Hourly | $20.19 | 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 religion workers earn in Canada?
- The median is $39,895 a year, about $20.19 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. $39,895 converts to $28,285 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $31,651 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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