NOC 2021 · 21111 · TEER 1
Forestry professionals
Unit group 21111 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Forestry professionals conduct research, develop plans and administer and direct programs related to the management and harvesting of forest resources. They are employed by the forest industry, provincial and federal governments, consulting companies, educational institutions and other industries, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- appraisal forester
- consulting forester
- Crown lands forester
- district forester
- extension forester
- forest engineer
- forest nursery forester
- forester
- industrial forester
- operations forester
- parks and recreation forester
- private lands forester
- professional forester
- project forester
- regional forest inventory officer
- regional inventory officer - forestry
- registered professional forester (RPF)
- research forester
- superintendent - forestry
- unit forester
- urban forester
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$47.00 an hour
Low $31.39, high $62.50
Where it pays most
- Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$49.00
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue · Quebec$49.00
- Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean · Quebec$49.00
- Montérégie · Quebec$48.50
- Laurentides · Quebec$46.42
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $44.66 | $31.22 – $64.03 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $41.27 | $28.39 – $60.81 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $49.00 | $35.00 – $57.69 | Limited |
| Ontario | $40.00 | $31.39 – $53.06 | Limited |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $45.88 | $30.58 – $65.54 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $40.00 | $33.65 – $68.68 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 27 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $43.88 | $26.46 – $60.35 | Undetermined |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $40.60 | $30.50 – $62.90 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $49.00 | $37.91 – $56.00 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $46.36 | $32.55 – $65.24 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $48.50 | $35.42 – $69.55 | Undetermined |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $46.42 | $33.46 – $65.33 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $49.00 | $35.00 – $57.69 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $46.18 | $34.07 – $62.75 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $49.00 | $35.00 – $57.69 | Very limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $40.00 | $31.39 – $53.06 | Undetermined |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $40.00 | $31.39 – $53.06 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $40.00 | $31.39 – $53.06 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $40.00 | $36.06 – $53.85 | Limited |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $45.22 | $32.55 – $64.07 | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $45.87 | $31.79 – $63.99 | Limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $40.00 | $33.65 – $68.68 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $40.00 | $33.65 – $68.68 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $40.00 | $33.65 – $68.68 | Limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $40.00 | $33.65 – $68.68 | Limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $40.00 | $33.65 – $68.68 | Limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | $40.00 | $33.65 – $68.68 | Limited |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.