NOC 2021 · 33100 · TEER 3
Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants
Unit group 33100 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Dental assistants assist dentists, dental hygienists and dental therapists during the examination and treatment of patients and perform clerical functions. Dental laboratory assistants assist dental technologists and technicians in preparing and fabricating dentures and other dental devices. Dental assistants work in dentists' offices, community health centres, clinics and in educational institutions. Dental laboratory assistants are employed in dental laboratories.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- ceramic denture caster
- ceramic denture mechanic
- ceramic denture moulder
- certified dental assistant
- certified intra-oral dental assistant
- chair-side assistant - dental
- dental aide
- dental assistant
- dental clinical assistant
- dental laboratory assistant
- dental laboratory bench worker
- dental laboratory technician assistant
- dental technician assistant
- denture bench moulder
- denture finisher
- denture framework finisher
- denture packer
- denture setter
- denture trimmer-polisher
- denture wax pattern former
- intra-oral dental assistant
- licensed dental assistant
- occlusion rim former - dentures
- orthodontic band maker
- plaster moulder - dentures
- preventive dental assistant
- registered dental 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
$27.00 an hour
Low $21.00, high $35.00
Where it pays most
- Edmonton · Alberta$34.00
- Calgary · Alberta$33.00
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$32.75
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$32.50
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$31.00
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 | $22.00 | $18.00 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $24.00 | $18.92 – $26.00 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $25.00 | $20.00 – $32.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $25.00 | $22.00 – $30.00 | Good |
| Quebec | $26.00 | $21.00 – $30.16 | Limited |
| Ontario | $26.00 | $20.00 – $34.00 | Good |
| Manitoba | $26.50 | $22.00 – $33.76 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $22.00 – $37.00 | Good |
| Alberta | $32.00 | $24.00 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $31.00 | $24.00 – $36.00 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 65 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 | $22.00 | $18.00 – $27.67 | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $22.13 | $20.28 – $24.22 | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $22.37 | $19.40 – $27.80 | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $23.00 | $20.00 – $29.50 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $23.18 | $20.09 – $27.64 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $23.82 | $20.60 – $30.29 | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $23.48 | $20.50 – $25.62 | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $24.73 | $21.12 – $30.78 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $22.80 | $19.62 – $23.61 | Good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $25.00 | $22.00 – $26.00 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $24.58 | $20.97 – $29.51 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $23.28 | $20.35 – $28.05 | Good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $22.10 | $20.37 – $24.76 | Good |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $25.00 | $20.75 – $29.00 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $27.00 | $23.00 – $31.00 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $26.25 | $22.50 – $31.00 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $25.00 | $20.00 – $29.73 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $24.00 | $21.00 – $28.40 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $26.00 | $22.00 – $31.00 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $25.00 | $20.00 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $26.00 | $21.00 – $31.37 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $26.00 | $22.00 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $26.25 | $22.00 – $30.00 | Very limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $28.13 | $24.00 – $34.84 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $25.00 | $21.25 – $29.52 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $23.66 | $19.00 – $28.00 | Very limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $29.00 | $21.00 – $35.00 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $25.00 | $25.00 – $31.00 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $25.07 | $22.93 – $34.56 | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $25.00 | $18.00 – $34.00 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $28.00 | $25.00 – $30.00 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $27.00 | $18.00 – $30.00 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $27.00 | $23.00 – $36.00 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $26.00 | $22.00 – $34.40 | Good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $25.28 | $20.71 – $30.17 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $25.88 | $18.00 – $32.70 | Good |
| Northwest | Ontario | $25.00 | $20.00 – $30.00 | Good |
| South Central | Manitoba | $25.70 | $20.62 – $28.43 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $23.34 | $18.00 – $40.00 | Good |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $27.00 | $22.00 – $31.00 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $23.49 | $20.09 – $26.53 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $32.50 | $25.00 – $40.00 | Good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $27.65 | $21.28 – $30.25 | Very good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $29.00 | $19.00 – $35.25 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $21.00 – $34.00 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $21.00 – $34.00 | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $30.00 | $25.00 – $35.00 | Good |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $27.26 | $22.20 – $32.12 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $33.00 | $23.00 – $37.00 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $28.50 | $24.00 – $31.50 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $27.88 | $21.89 – $31.97 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $34.00 | $29.00 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $28.50 | $24.00 – $31.50 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $27.37 | $20.37 – $34.38 | Good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $31.00 | $29.00 – $37.00 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $31.00 | $22.50 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $32.75 | $29.00 – $37.00 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $26.96 | $22.87 – $32.53 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $29.34 | $22.71 – $33.97 | Moderate |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $27.14 | $23.63 – $32.55 | 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) · 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.