NOC 2021 · 32109 · TEER 2
Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment
Unit group 32109 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Other technical workers in therapy and assessment perform various technical therapy and assessment functions. Some may assist professionals such as audiologists, speech-language pathologists, ophthalmologists, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. They are employed in hospitals, clinics, extended care facilities, rehabilitation centres, community health centres, educational institutions, hearing aid retail stores, in the private practices of the professionals they assist, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- assistive listening device technician
- audiological technician
- audiology technician
- audiometrician
- audiometrist
- certified ophthalmic medical technologist
- certified ophthalmic technician
- communication aide - medical
- communication assistant - medical
- communication disorders assistant
- communication disorders instructor
- communicative disorders assistant
- communicative disorders instructor
- hearing aid assistant
- hearing aid consultant
- hearing aid dealer
- hearing aid practitioner
- hearing aid specialist
- hearing aid technician
- hearing assessment technician
- hearing disorder technician
- hearing instrument dispenser
- hearing instrument practitioner
- hearing instrument practitioner assistant
- hearing instrument specialist
- kinesitherapist
- licensed hearing instrument specialist
- manual arts therapist
- occupational therapy assistant
- occupational therapy technician
- ophthalmic medical technician
- ophthalmic medical technologist
- ophthalmic technician
- ophthalmic technician (except retail)
- ophthalmic technologist
- physical rehabilitation technician
- physical rehabilitation therapist
- physical therapist assistant (PTA)
- physical therapy aide
- physical therapy technician
- physiotherapist assistant (PTA)
- physiotherapy aide
- physiotherapy assistant
- physiotherapy technician
- recreation therapy assistant
- rehabilitation assistant
- speech aide
- speech correctionist - medical
- speech language assistant
- speech technician
- speech therapist aide
- speech therapist assistant
- speech therapy aide
- speech therapy assistant
- speech-language pathology assistant
- therapist assistant
- therapy assistant
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
$26.85 an hour
Low $17.62, high $36.71
Where it pays most
- Kootenay · British Columbia$30.82
- Northeast · British Columbia$30.60
- Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$30.00
- Centre-du-Québec · Quebec$30.00
- Montérégie · Quebec$30.00
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 | $26.67 | $16.55 – $29.33 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $27.00 | $19.00 – $28.37 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $26.82 | $20.45 – $42.95 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $26.13 | $20.32 – $27.77 | Good |
| Quebec | $30.00 | $22.54 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $25.68 | $17.60 – $36.00 | Good |
| Manitoba | $21.17 | $17.00 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $28.00 | $22.97 – $32.88 | Good |
| Alberta | $25.41 | $15.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $30.00 | $22.00 – $39.56 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | $34.97 | $25.32 – $43.65 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 61 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 | $27.40 | $21.00 – $28.50 | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $25.47 | $18.83 – $30.17 | Good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $27.99 | $22.89 – $31.13 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $26.82 | $22.66 – $29.52 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $27.00 | $22.05 – $30.45 | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $26.51 | $21.49 – $40.26 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $25.87 | $20.66 – $31.30 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $26.95 | $22.87 – $33.37 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $26.58 | $21.52 – $34.60 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $24.28 | $19.89 – $29.26 | Good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $26.24 | $20.98 – $30.85 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.54 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $26.67 | $25.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $28.65 | $22.54 – $36.67 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.54 – $38.00 | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $30.00 | $23.50 – $37.81 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.00 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.54 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.54 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.54 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $30.00 | $17.00 – $32.00 | Good |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.54 – $38.00 | Good |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.54 – $38.00 | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $29.00 | $25.50 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $27.79 | $17.60 – $39.71 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $29.55 | $18.00 – $32.00 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $25.68 | $17.60 – $36.00 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $25.68 | $17.60 – $36.00 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $25.75 | $21.00 – $32.00 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $25.68 | $17.60 – $36.00 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $26.85 | $23.00 – $37.00 | Very good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $23.00 | $19.00 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $27.49 | $21.58 – $32.81 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $25.00 | $17.60 – $30.00 | Good |
| Northwest | Ontario | $25.00 | $17.60 – $34.46 | Very good |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $21.17 | $17.00 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $23.14 | $18.61 – $31.40 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $28.54 | $24.03 – $35.82 | Good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $28.96 | $23.16 – $35.07 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $28.00 | $23.45 – $41.00 | Very good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $29.18 | $25.25 – $35.00 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $25.41 | $15.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $25.41 | $15.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $25.41 | $15.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $25.41 | $15.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $25.41 | $15.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $25.41 | $15.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $30.00 | $22.00 – $39.56 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $30.00 | $26.70 – $39.56 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $30.00 | $22.00 – $39.56 | Limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $30.82 | $24.37 – $39.73 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $29.97 | $23.77 – $35.74 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $30.60 | $25.55 – $37.35 | Undetermined |
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.