NOC 2021 · 31302 · TEER 1
Nurse practitioners
Unit group 31302 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional education, advanced knowledge and nursing experience, and a specialty of practice. They provide a range of health services to patients and deliver preventive and continuous care toward the management of patients' health. Nurse practitioners work in conjunction with physicians and collaboratively with other nursing colleagues and health-care providers, or they may work independently. They are employed in community health centres, hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and rehabilitation centres. Nurse practitioners may specialize in primary healthcare or acute care.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- acute care nurse practitioner
- adult care nurse practitioner
- advanced nurse practitioner
- advanced practice nurse
- anesthesia nurse practitioner
- cardiovascular nurse practitioner
- extended class registered nurse
- geriatric nurse practitioner
- nurse practitioner
- pediatric nurse practitioner
- primary health care nurse practitioner
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
$61.54 an hour
Low $42.00, high $75.00
Where it pays most
- Northwest · Ontario$63.00
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$62.19
- Ottawa · Ontario$62.00
- Kingston--Pembroke · Ontario$62.00
- Muskoka--Kawarthas · Ontario$62.00
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 | $54.00 | $49.50 – $62.40 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $50.65 | $37.74 – $59.54 | Very good |
| Nova Scotia | $55.88 | $41.41 – $67.63 | Very good |
| New Brunswick | $59.00 | $50.00 – $66.00 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $57.69 | $40.00 – $66.26 | Good |
| Ontario | $62.00 | $40.00 – $75.00 | Very good |
| Manitoba | $55.00 | $50.00 – $63.00 | Good |
| Saskatchewan | $56.14 | $43.04 – $67.79 | Very good |
| Alberta | $53.25 | $38.88 – $67.85 | Very good |
| British Columbia | $59.53 | $42.49 – $74.59 | Good |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 34 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 | $57.00 | $54.00 – $64.50 | Undetermined |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $54.26 | $41.99 – $62.54 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $56.38 | $42.39 – $67.35 | Undetermined |
| 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 | $55.96 | $43.77 – $64.19 | Very good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $57.69 | $40.00 – $66.26 | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $57.69 | $40.00 – $66.26 | Very good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $57.69 | $40.00 – $66.26 | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $55.58 | $39.75 – $63.82 | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $56.38 | $38.06 – $67.31 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $53.94 | $37.56 – $62.94 | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $62.00 | $40.00 – $75.00 | Very good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $62.00 | $40.00 – $75.00 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $62.00 | $40.00 – $75.00 | Very good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $62.00 | $40.00 – $75.00 | Very good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $61.54 | $33.33 – $65.00 | Very good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $62.00 | $40.00 – $75.00 | Very good |
| London | Ontario | $58.34 | $44.06 – $68.21 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $62.00 | $40.00 – $75.00 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $62.00 | $40.00 – $75.00 | Very good |
| Northwest | Ontario | $63.00 | $48.00 – $77.00 | Very good |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $55.00 | $50.00 – $63.00 | Very good |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $56.03 | $44.46 – $69.58 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $56.35 | $43.18 – $73.08 | Very good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $52.45 | $38.69 – $64.27 | Very good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $53.75 | $39.09 – $66.08 | Very good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $62.19 | $38.39 – $73.51 | Good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $59.70 | $41.89 – $70.36 | Good |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $60.78 | $40.71 – $71.36 | 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 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.