NOC 2021 · 22110 · TEER 2
Biological technologists and technicians
Unit group 22110 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Biological technologists and technicians provide technical support and services to scientists, engineers and other professionals working in fields such as agriculture, resource management, environmental protection, plant and animal biology, microbiology, cell and molecular biology and health sciences, or may work independently in these fields. They are employed in both laboratory and field settings by governments, manufacturers of food products, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, biotechnology companies, health, research and educational institutions, environmental consulting companies, and resource and utilities companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- agricultural sciences technician
- agricultural technician
- agricultural technologist
- agrology technician
- agrology technologist
- agronomy technician
- agronomy technologist
- aquaculture technician
- aquatic biology technician
- bacteriological technician
- bacteriological technologist
- biological forensic laboratory technologist
- biological laboratory technologist
- biological technician
- biological technologist
- biotechnology technician
- botanical technician
- botanical technologist
- crop production technician
- dairy products technician
- dairy technologist
- ecological technician
- ecological technologist
- eel culture technician
- entomological technician
- entomological technologist
- field crop technician
- field crop technologist
- fish culturist
- fish farm technologist
- fish hatchery technician
- fish roe technician
- fisheries technician
- fisheries technologist
- fishery bacteriological technician
- fishery bacteriological technologist
- food bacteriological technician
- food bacteriological technologist
- habitat management technician
- hair and fibre forensic examiner
- ichthyological technician
- ichthyological technologist
- industrial bacteriological technician
- industrial bacteriological technologist
- life sciences research technician
- lobster culture technician
- malacology technician
- mammalogy technician
- mammalogy technologist
- marine biological technician
- marine biology technician
- marine biology technologist
- marine culture technologist
- marine farming technologist
- microbiological technician
- microbiology quality control technologist
- microbiology technician (except medical)
- microbiology technologist (except medical)
- mycological technician
- mycological technologist
- nanobiotechnology technician
- natural resources technician - biology
- ornithological technician
- ornithological technologist
- oyster culture technician
- pisciculture bacteriological technologist
- plant breeding technician
- plant pathology technician
- plant pathology technologist
- poultry technician
- poultry technologist
- sea-farming technologist
- seed technologist
- soil bacteriological technician
- soil bacteriological technologist
- vaccine technician
- virology technologist
- wildlife biology technician
- wildlife resources technician
- wildlife technician
- wildlife technologist
- zoo foreman/woman
- zoo supervisor
- zoological technician
- zoological technologist
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
$29.12 an hour
Low $19.50, high $43.00
Where it pays most
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$34.42
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$33.99
- Cariboo · British Columbia$33.93
- South Coast--Burin Peninsula · Newfoundland and Labrador$33.67
- Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$33.61
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 | $31.25 | $21.79 – $43.08 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $29.42 | $18.62 – $33.70 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $25.39 | $16.73 – $37.37 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $27.24 | $18.80 – $39.63 | Limited |
| Quebec | $28.00 | $20.00 – $41.03 | Limited |
| Ontario | $30.00 | $19.72 – $45.00 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $22.00 | $19.48 – $29.00 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | $32.00 | $16.75 – $45.64 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $32.99 | $21.87 – $46.48 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $32.85 | $22.00 – $42.31 | Very limited |
| Yukon Territory | $37.78 | $21.61 – $46.90 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | $51.19 | $27.93 – $61.02 | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 56 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $31.25 | $21.79 – $43.08 | Undetermined |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $33.67 | $19.54 – $41.92 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $32.35 | $19.49 – $38.09 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $27.25 | $20.34 – $37.20 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $25.30 | $18.05 – $37.58 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $26.58 | $18.87 – $41.38 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $25.22 | $18.19 – $36.64 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $27.32 | $19.28 – $84.10 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $30.19 | $21.20 – $42.95 | Limited |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $26.31 | $19.94 – $39.37 | Limited |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $27.82 | $19.90 – $40.88 | Limited |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $29.67 | $21.98 – $38.09 | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $32.45 | $22.02 – $42.06 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $30.57 | $21.03 – $39.99 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $32.00 | $23.30 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $29.82 | $20.53 – $37.69 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $31.23 | $21.17 – $37.13 | Very limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $29.79 | $21.24 – $41.18 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $29.72 | $20.95 – $38.92 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $30.48 | $21.45 – $40.38 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $29.48 | $20.26 – $37.83 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $30.40 | $21.45 – $38.68 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $32.72 | $25.52 – $46.10 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $29.20 | $20.92 – $39.05 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $30.01 | $20.92 – $39.85 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $32.86 | $21.97 – $46.73 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $30.40 | $21.72 – $41.43 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $31.57 | $21.64 – $42.52 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $27.00 | $18.00 – $46.00 | Very limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $30.09 | $19.96 – $37.09 | Very limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $31.44 | $20.95 – $43.27 | Very limited |
| London | Ontario | $31.19 | $21.71 – $41.78 | Very limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $31.29 | $21.33 – $43.76 | Very limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $29.99 | $21.47 – $40.22 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $32.30 | $22.01 – $44.27 | Very limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $30.68 | $22.43 – $41.17 | Undetermined |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $26.43 | $19.52 – $39.18 | Undetermined |
| South Central | Manitoba | $26.84 | $19.09 – $35.89 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $25.26 | $18.61 – $33.62 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $27.34 | $19.02 – $32.62 | Very limited |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $32.12 | $24.20 – $39.29 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $32.81 | $23.16 – $41.99 | Moderate |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $31.17 | $23.65 – $41.04 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $33.99 | $23.74 – $45.56 | Undetermined |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $33.61 | $22.01 – $42.96 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $32.58 | $20.95 – $45.42 | Limited |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $34.42 | $24.27 – $49.08 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $33.53 | $22.40 – $46.81 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $33.05 | $23.37 – $43.27 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $30.00 | $21.00 – $42.31 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $32.28 | $22.71 – $43.08 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $32.31 | $23.46 – $46.61 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $33.93 | $24.37 – $46.05 | Undetermined |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $30.89 | $23.32 – $42.31 | Undetermined |
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.