NOC 2021 · 32104 · TEER 2

Animal health technologists and veterinary technicians

Unit group 32104 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

Express Entry draws from this TEER level.

Healthcare and social services occupations

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What this group covers

Animal health technologists and veterinary technicians provide technical support to veterinarians by caring for animals and assisting in the diagnosis and treatment of animal health disorders. They are employed in veterinary clinics, animal hospitals, animal shelters, humane societies, zoos, animal research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and government. Animal health technologists and veterinary technicians who are supervisors are included in this unit group.

Example job titles

As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.

animal care technician
animal care technologist
animal health technician
animal health technician - agriculture
animal health technologist
animal health technologist supervisor
animal operating room attendant
laboratory animal technician
laboratory animal technologist
registered animal health technologist
registered animal health technologist (RAHT)
registered veterinary technician (RVT)
veterinarian assistant
veterinary laboratory technician
veterinary technician
veterinary technician supervisor
veterinary 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.

$23.00 an hour

Low $17.00, high $33.16

Where it pays most

Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$26.27
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$26.01
Winnipeg · Manitoba$26.00
Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$25.77
Laurentides · Quebec$25.54

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

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by province and territory.
Where	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Newfoundland and Labrador	$18.50	$17.07 – $29.87	Undetermined
Prince Edward Island	$19.00	$16.50 – $30.00	Good
Nova Scotia	$21.50	$16.50 – $27.75	Very good
New Brunswick	$20.00	$15.65 – $23.50	Moderate
Quebec	$23.00	$18.90 – $31.00	Limited
Ontario	$22.00	$17.60 – $33.04	Moderate
Manitoba	$24.00	$16.50 – $30.00	Moderate
Saskatchewan	$25.00	$16.50 – $32.00	Moderate
Alberta	$24.00	$17.00 – $37.00	Moderate
British Columbia	$23.00	$17.85 – $33.17	Limited
Yukon Territory	$25.71	$22.68 – $28.44	Undetermined
Northwest Territories	Not published	Not published	Undetermined
Nunavut	Not published	Not published	Undetermined

By economic region

The 58 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by economic region.
Where	Province	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Avalon Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$18.50	$17.07 – $29.87	Undetermined
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	$22.41	$19.87 – $26.45	Very good
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$21.90	$19.80 – $27.72	Very good
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	$21.50	$16.50 – $27.75	Very good
Southern	Nova Scotia	$21.18	$19.70 – $26.82	Very good
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$21.50	$16.50 – $27.75	Very good
Campbellton--Miramichi	New Brunswick	$22.63	$20.17 – $27.36	Undetermined
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$20.00	$16.00 – $23.50	Moderate
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$22.43	$16.79 – $24.32	Moderate
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$21.42	$19.09 – $25.41	Moderate
Edmundston--Woodstock	New Brunswick	$21.93	$18.59 – $27.88	Undetermined
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	$23.87	$22.01 – $27.83	Moderate
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$23.00	$18.90 – $31.00	Limited
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$24.13	$20.90 – $28.14	Limited
Estrie	Quebec	$23.00	$18.90 – $31.00	Moderate
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	$23.00	$18.90 – $31.00	Moderate
Montérégie	Quebec	$24.50	$19.00 – $30.50	Limited
Montréal	Quebec	$23.00	$18.90 – $31.00	Limited
Laval	Quebec	$23.00	$18.90 – $31.00	Limited
Lanaudière	Quebec	$23.00	$18.90 – $31.00	Limited
Laurentides	Quebec	$25.54	$21.62 – $31.22	Limited
Outaouais	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Abitibi-Témiscamingue	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Limited
Mauricie	Quebec	$23.44	$21.66 – $28.50	Limited
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	$24.55	$21.15 – $27.95	Limited
Ottawa	Ontario	$22.00	$17.60 – $33.04	Moderate
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$22.00	$17.60 – $33.04	Moderate
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$22.00	$17.60 – $33.04	Moderate
Toronto	Ontario	$22.00	$17.60 – $33.04	Moderate
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$20.60	$17.60 – $26.00	Moderate
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$23.00	$17.60 – $28.98	Moderate
London	Ontario	$25.00	$20.00 – $27.00	Moderate
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$22.00	$18.00 – $28.88	Moderate
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$22.00	$17.60 – $33.04	Moderate
Northeast	Ontario	$22.00	$17.60 – $33.04	Moderate
Northwest	Ontario	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Southeast	Manitoba	$25.38	$20.40 – $28.76	Moderate
South Central	Manitoba	$24.93	$19.89 – $32.67	Moderate
Southwest	Manitoba	$25.52	$20.09 – $30.53	Undetermined
North Central	Manitoba	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$26.00	$17.00 – $31.50	Moderate
Interlake	Manitoba	$24.57	$17.11 – $32.14	Undetermined
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$25.00	$16.50 – $32.00	Moderate
Swift Current--Moose Jaw	Saskatchewan	$24.68	$20.62 – $29.47	Moderate
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$26.27	$20.57 – $32.37	Moderate
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$24.50	$15.35 – $25.00	Undetermined
Northern	Saskatchewan	$24.50	$15.35 – $25.00	Undetermined
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$26.01	$22.48 – $30.32	Moderate
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$25.77	$21.15 – $30.03	Moderate
Calgary	Alberta	$25.32	$17.00 – $37.17	Moderate
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$25.30	$21.49 – $29.91	Moderate
Red Deer	Alberta	$25.34	$21.60 – $28.79	Moderate
Edmonton	Alberta	$24.00	$17.00 – $37.00	Moderate
Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River	Alberta	$24.00	$17.00 – $37.00	Moderate
Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake	Alberta	$25.53	$21.19 – $28.43	Undetermined
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$23.00	$17.85 – $33.17	Moderate
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$23.00	$17.85 – $31.00	Moderate
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$23.00	$17.85 – $33.17	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) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (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.