NOC 2021 · 31100 · TEER 1
Specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine
Unit group 31100 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
Healthcare and social services occupations · Physicians with Canadian work experience
What this group covers
Specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine diagnose and treat diseases and physiological or psychiatric disorders and act as consultants to other physicians. Specialists in laboratory medicine study the nature, cause and development of diseases in humans. Specialists in clinical medicine usually work in private practice or in a hospital while those in laboratory medicine usually work in hospitals. Residents in training to become specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine are included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- acute care specialist
- allergist
- allergologist
- anatomical pathologist
- anesthesiologist
- anesthesiologist - Canadian Armed Forces
- anesthetist
- autopsy pathologist
- cardiologist
- cardiology specialist
- child specialist
- clinical immunologist
- clinical immunology and allergy specialist
- clinical pathologist
- clinical pharmacologist
- community health physician
- community medicine physician
- community medicine specialist
- critical care medicine physician
- critical care medicine specialist
- dermatologist
- diagnostic radiologist
- diagnostic radiology specialist
- emergency medicine physician
- emergency medicine specialist
- emergency physician
- emergentologist
- endocrinologist
- environmental medicine specialist
- forensic pathologist
- gastroenterologist
- general pathologist
- geneticist - medical specialist
- geriatric medicine specialist
- geriatrician
- geriatrist
- heart specialist
- hematological-pathologist
- hematologist
- hematopathologist
- hematopathology specialist
- histopathologist - medical specialist
- hospitalist
- hyperbaric physician
- immunologist and allergologist
- infectious disease physician
- infectious disease specialist
- infertility specialist
- inpatient physician
- internal medicine specialist
- internist
- lung specialist
- medical bacteriologist
- medical biochemist - physician
- medical geneticist
- medical genetics specialist
- medical microbiologist
- medical oncologist
- medical oncology specialist
- medical parasitologist
- medical pathologist
- medical physiologist
- medical specialist
- medical specialist officer - Canadian Armed Forces
- neonatologist
- nephrologist
- nerve specialist
- neurologist
- neuropathologist
- neuropsychiatrist
- nuclear medicine physician
- nuclear medicine specialist
- nuclear physician
- occupational health physician (OHP)
- occupational medicine specialist
- occupational physician
- oncologist
- pathologist - medical
- pathologist-hematologist
- pediatric oncologist
- pediatrician
- phoniatrician
- phoniatrist
- physiatrist
- physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist
- pneumologist
- preventive medicine physician
- preventive medicine specialist
- proctologist
- psychiatrist
- psychiatrist - Canadian Armed Forces
- psychopharmacologist
- pulmonary disease specialist
- pulmonary medicine physician
- pulmonary medicine specialist
- pulmonologist
- radiation oncologist
- radiologist
- radiologist - Canadian Armed Forces
- radio-oncologist
- radio-oncology specialist
- rehabilitation specialist
- respiratory disease specialist
- respirologist
- rheumatologist
- skin disease specialist
- skin specialist
- specialist doctor
- specialist in cardiology
- specialist in community medicine
- specialist in critical care medicine
- specialist in emergency medicine
- specialist in environmental medicine
- specialist in epidemiology and community medicine
- specialist in geriatric medicine
- specialist in hematopathology
- specialist in infectious diseases
- specialist in infertility
- specialist in internal medicine
- specialist in medical oncology
- specialist in nuclear medicine
- specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation
- specialist in preventive medicine
- specialist in pulmonary disease
- specialist in spinal injuries
- specialist in sports medicine
- specialist physician
- spinal injury specialist
- sports medicine physician
- sports medicine specialist
- surgical pathologist
- tropical medicine physician
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
$311,297 a year
Low $126,465, high $607,184
By province and territory
| Where | Median annual | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $303,112 | $114,972 – $535,328 | Very good |
| Prince Edward Island | $318,714 | $103,834 – $473,486 | Very good |
| Nova Scotia | $207,046 | $182,271 – $476,596 | Very good |
| New Brunswick | $335,358 | $149,979 – $518,119 | Very good |
| Quebec | $343,031 | $144,640 – $556,888 | Good |
| Ontario | $295,785 | $110,998 – $599,836 | Good |
| Manitoba | $343,507 | $118,433 – $699,304 | Good |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Alberta | $272,306 | $129,664 – $728,244 | Good |
| British Columbia | $317,845 | $127,985 – $587,478 | Good |
| Yukon Territory | $247,242 | $34,935 – $300,271 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 44 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median annual | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northwest | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Calgary | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
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 Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation (2023-2024).
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.