Utilities managers salary in Canada
$120,536CAD/YR
Utilities managers in Canada earn a median of $120,536 a year, about $61.00 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $120,536 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $85,456. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $95,627 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 120,536 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 120,536 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | $150,216 | +25% |
| Saskatchewan | $142,509 | +18% |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | $142,509 | +18% |
| Avalon Peninsula | $142,055 | +18% |
| Edmonton | $140,948 | +17% |
| Northwest Territories | $140,375 | +16% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $137,609 | +14% |
| Windsor--Sarnia | $135,218 | +12% |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | $134,032 | +11% |
| Prince Albert | $133,321 | +11% |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | $132,906 | +10% |
| London | $132,155 | +10% |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | $131,957 | +9% |
| Mauricie | $131,681 | +9% |
| Northeast | $130,890 | +9% |
| Kingston--Pembroke | $129,784 | +8% |
| Lanaudière | $128,440 | +7% |
| Ottawa | $128,440 | +7% |
| Montérégie | $128,321 | +6% |
| Laval | $127,669 | +6% |
| Capitale-Nationale | $127,551 | +6% |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | $126,741 | +5% |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | $126,247 | +5% |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | $125,713 | +4% |
| Ontario | $125,397 | +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 | $120,536 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $126,879 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $96,903 | — |
| 75th percentile | $149,978 | — |
| Hourly | $61.00 | 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 utilities managers earn in Canada?
- The median is $120,536 a year, about $61.00 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. $120,536 converts to $85,456 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $95,627 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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