NOC 2021 · 40042 · TEER 0
Commissioned officers of the Canadian Armed Forces
Unit group 40042 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Commissioned officers of the Canadian Armed Forces plan, organize, command, direct, control and evaluate, the operations of their organization in relation to established objectives. Senior commissioned officers formulate military and strategic policies which establish the direction to be taken by the Canadian Forces. All ranks of commissioned officers in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Navy are included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- acting sub-lieutenant
- admiral
- air combat systems officer
- armour officer
- artillery officer
- brigadier general
- captain - Canadian Army
- captain - Royal Canadian Air Force
- captain - Royal Canadian Navy
- captain
- colonel
- commander
- commodore
- court martial judge
- general
- infantry officer
- lieutenant - Canadian Army
- lieutenant - Royal Canadian Air Force
- lieutenant - Royal Canadian Navy
- lieutenant colonel
- lieutenant commander
- lieutenant general
- lieutenant
- major general
- major
- naval cadet
- officer cadet
- rear admiral
- search and rescue captain
- second lieutenant
- sub-lieutenant
- vice admiral
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. 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.