NOC 2021 · 31102 · TEER 1
General practitioners and family physicians
Unit group 31102 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
Healthcare and social services occupations · Physicians with Canadian work experience
What this group covers
General practitioners and family physicians diagnose and treat the diseases, physiological disorders and injuries of patients. They provide primary contact and continuous care toward the management of patients' health. They usually work in private practice, including group or team practices, hospitals and clinics. Residents in training to be general practitioners or family physicians are included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- civil aviation medical officer
- community preventive medicine physician
- company physician
- doctor of medicine (MD)
- family doctor
- family physician
- family practitioner
- general practice intern
- general practice physician
- general practice resident
- general practitioner (GP)
- industrial medical officer
- industrial medicine physician
- industrial physician
- intern
- locum doctor
- medical doctor
- medical missionary
- medical officer - Canadian Armed Forces
- medical officer of health (MOH)
- missionary doctor
- physician resident
- primary care physician
- public health physician
- resident
- resident physician
- telemedicine family 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
$232,227 a year
Low $90,826, high $435,240
By province and territory
| Where | Median annual | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $204,492 | $86,738 – $396,356 | Very good |
| Prince Edward Island | $209,676 | $89,508 – $333,708 | Very good |
| Nova Scotia | $187,135 | $75,058 – $345,667 | Very good |
| New Brunswick | $187,297 | $89,344 – $346,082 | Very good |
| Quebec | $268,808 | $95,137 – $505,024 | Good |
| Ontario | $233,752 | $84,266 – $451,418 | Good |
| Manitoba | $240,395 | $97,422 – $487,678 | Very good |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Alberta | $178,213 | $66,798 – $327,151 | Very good |
| British Columbia | $160,960 | $56,864 – $348,082 | Good |
| Yukon Territory | $219,382 | $82,632 – $424,378 | Good |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 70 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 |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | 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 |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | 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 |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| 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 | Good |
| 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 | Good |
| 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 |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Toronto | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Northwest | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| South Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southwest | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Interlake | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Parklands | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Calgary | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Red Deer | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very 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 |
| North Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Good |
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.