NOC 2021 · 22112 · TEER 2
Forestry technologists and technicians
Unit group 22112 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Forestry technologists and technicians may work independently or perform technical and supervisory functions in support of forestry research, forest management, forest harvesting, forest resource conservation and environmental protection. They are employed by the forest industry sector, provincial and federal governments, consulting firms, and other industries and institutions, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- chief cruiser
- chief scaler
- conservation technician - forestry
- crew leader - forest fire suppression
- cruiser
- cruising technician - forestry
- enforcement officer - forestry
- extension forest ranger
- extension ranger - forestry
- field office supervisor - forestry
- fire crew leader - forestry
- fire suppression crew foreman/woman - forestry
- fire suppression officer - forestry
- forest engineering technician
- forest engineering technologist
- forest extension technician
- forest fire officer
- forest fire ranger
- forest fire technician
- forest firefighting crew leader
- forest inventory resource officer
- forest planning technician
- forest protection coordinator
- forest regional inventory technician
- forest research technologist
- forest resource management technician
- forest resource technician
- forest survey technician
- forest technician
- forestry conservation and preservation technician
- forestry conservation and preservation technologist
- forestry conservation research technician
- forestry conservation research technologist
- forestry conservation technician
- forestry conservation technologist
- forestry crew coordinator
- forestry extension technician
- forestry technician
- forestry technician supervisor
- forestry technologist
- log grader
- log scaler
- natural resources technician - forestry
- nursery technician - forestry
- protection coordinator - forestry
- range conservationist
- range manager
- research assistant - forestry
- resource technician - forestry
- scaler - forestry
- scaler technician - logging
- scalers supervisor
- scaling coordinator - logging
- senior fire control technician
- silviculture technician
- silviculture technologist
- silviculturist
- timber cruiser
- timber marker
- timber rider
- timber scaler
- timber technician
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
$32.97 an hour
Low $22.50, high $44.71
Where it pays most
- Muskoka--Kawarthas · Ontario$39.36
- North Shore · Nova Scotia$38.79
- Calgary · Alberta$38.65
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$38.03
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$37.89
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 | $33.17 | $25.30 – $44.14 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $31.03 | $23.09 – $38.80 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $37.79 | $19.60 – $45.00 | Limited |
| New Brunswick | $33.02 | $23.25 – $44.95 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $32.00 | $22.50 – $43.59 | Limited |
| Ontario | $35.38 | $22.89 – $45.05 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $28.66 | $16.94 – $40.89 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $27.54 | $21.35 – $41.91 | Very limited |
| Alberta | $36.20 | $26.59 – $57.87 | Very limited |
| British Columbia | $32.00 | $24.50 – $42.94 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | $39.43 | $20.39 – $55.55 | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 49 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $34.20 | $25.67 – $43.03 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $38.79 | $28.45 – $47.95 | Limited |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $33.73 | $23.96 – $43.58 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $33.74 | $24.35 – $42.86 | Undetermined |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $33.41 | $25.14 – $41.86 | Undetermined |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $34.52 | $26.13 – $45.66 | Undetermined |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $34.22 | $24.27 – $45.06 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $32.24 | $23.70 – $42.80 | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $32.79 | $24.73 – $43.27 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $32.00 | $23.00 – $35.10 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $32.63 | $23.92 – $43.91 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $31.28 | $23.99 – $39.39 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $33.05 | $23.83 – $44.74 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $29.40 | $20.68 – $35.39 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $33.69 | $25.64 – $43.75 | Undetermined |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $32.49 | $22.91 – $46.31 | Very limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $33.45 | $25.51 – $44.81 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $33.52 | $25.34 – $44.06 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $33.17 | $24.19 – $44.00 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $32.19 | $20.00 – $39.56 | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | $32.19 | $20.00 – $39.56 | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $30.02 | $19.96 – $38.94 | Undetermined |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $35.67 | $25.03 – $47.86 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $39.36 | $28.20 – $54.88 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $36.86 | $27.20 – $48.74 | Undetermined |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $35.87 | $24.91 – $50.35 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $38.03 | $26.01 – $51.79 | Undetermined |
| London | Ontario | $37.00 | $23.48 – $52.03 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $34.95 | $24.68 – $48.43 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $36.27 | $25.30 – $51.88 | Very limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $27.18 | $17.96 – $37.29 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $28.79 | $22.02 – $42.76 | Very limited |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $38.65 | $27.65 – $49.17 | Undetermined |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $37.89 | $28.12 – $50.41 | Very limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $35.89 | $25.00 – $43.14 | Very limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $36.83 | $26.09 – $49.28 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $36.66 | $25.55 – $49.03 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $36.29 | $25.39 – $49.54 | Limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $35.07 | $25.68 – $47.31 | Limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $32.10 | $22.42 – $42.94 | Very limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $34.79 | $24.66 – $46.10 | Limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | 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.