Underground production and development miners salary in Canada
$82,992CAD/YR
Underground production and development miners in Canada earn a median of $82,992 a year, about $42.00 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $82,992 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $58,839. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $65,841 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 82,992 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 82,992 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Southwest | $100,223 | +21% |
| Prince Albert | $96,132 | +16% |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | $95,796 | +15% |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | $94,848 | +14% |
| Thompson--Okanagan | $94,591 | +14% |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | $94,453 | +14% |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | $94,295 | +14% |
| Edmonton | $93,228 | +12% |
| Saskatchewan | $92,872 | +12% |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | $92,872 | +12% |
| Centre-du-Québec | $92,852 | +12% |
| Capitale-Nationale | $91,410 | +10% |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | $91,252 | +10% |
| Côte-Nord | $90,896 | +10% |
| Nord-du-Québec | $90,896 | +10% |
| Kootenay | $90,896 | +10% |
| Yorkton--Melville | $90,461 | +9% |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | $88,920 | +7% |
| Northwest Territories | $87,576 | +6% |
| Lower Mainland | $87,339 | +5% |
| Lanaudière | $87,161 | +5% |
| Calgary | $86,707 | +4% |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | $86,549 | +4% |
| Yukon Territory | $86,193 | +4% |
| Outaouais | $86,055 | +4% |
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 | $82,992 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $83,743 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $70,721 | — |
| 75th percentile | $94,848 | — |
| Hourly | $42.00 | 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 underground production and development miners earn in Canada?
- The median is $82,992 a year, about $42.00 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. $82,992 converts to $58,839 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $65,841 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".
