NOC 2021 · 41407 · TEER 1
Program officers unique to government
Unit group 41407 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Program officers unique to government are primarily concerned with the administration and operation of government institutions, such as Parliament, and activities unique to the operations of government, such as international relations, federal-provincial affairs, elections and tribunals.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- Aboriginal land claims liaison officer
- attaché
- board member - government services
- deputy returning officer
- diplomat
- election commission officer
- elections officer
- extraparliamentary commission officer
- federal and intergovernmental affairs research officer - government services
- federal-provincial relations officer
- first secretary - foreign service
- foreign service officer
- government official
- health authority board member
- House of Commons committee officer
- House of Commons officer
- intelligence analyst - security
- intelligence officer - security
- intelligence operator - Canadian Armed Forces
- intelligence operator - security
- intergovernmental affairs officer
- labour relations commission officer
- legislative committee officer
- legislative council officer
- Native land claims liaison officer
- Office of the Speaker of the House of Commons officer
- office of the Speaker officer
- official languages commission officer
- official languages promotion officer
- parole board member
- Premier's Office officer (provincial government)
- Prime Minister's Office officer (federal government)
- Privy Council Office officer
- protocol officer
- protocol officer - government services
- public inquiries officer
- refugee board member
- regional committee officer - government services
- regional council officer
- research officer - federal and intergovernmental affairs
- returning officer
- royal commission officer
- second secretary - foreign service
- select committee officer
- Senate committee officer
- standing committee officer
- standing or select committee officer
- task force officer
- territorial council officer
- third secretary - foreign service
- tribunal chairperson
- tribunal member
- tribunal officer
- tribunal officer - government services
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
$43.71 an hour
Low $26.83, high $66.67
Where it pays most
- Windsor--Sarnia · Ontario$50.94
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$48.00
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$47.81
- London · Ontario$47.70
- North Coast · British Columbia$47.34
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 | $43.20 | $26.22 – $57.01 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $36.28 | $21.54 – $53.16 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $41.93 | $26.22 – $61.49 | Limited |
| New Brunswick | $42.58 | $26.44 – $57.33 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Limited |
| Ontario | $46.15 | $33.33 – $69.23 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $37.30 | $23.96 – $58.82 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Alberta | $44.05 | $28.71 – $60.66 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $48.00 | $26.83 – $66.05 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | $55.13 | $36.55 – $69.52 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | $63.93 | $46.95 – $81.37 | Good |
| Nunavut | $59.83 | $26.36 – $82.73 | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 37 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 | $44.90 | $26.60 – $60.10 | Undetermined |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $44.94 | $25.58 – $63.51 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $41.90 | $26.22 – $58.60 | Limited |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $38.98 | $22.92 – $56.12 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $43.53 | $29.22 – $65.96 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $38.72 | $25.99 – $55.35 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $46.11 | $27.02 – $70.04 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Undetermined |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $43.59 | $29.00 – $58.20 | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $37.50 | $28.85 – $57.66 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $42.60 | $34.87 – $64.62 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $43.99 | $31.38 – $60.98 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $44.86 | $30.35 – $67.15 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $47.21 | $31.55 – $65.11 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $44.86 | $30.66 – $62.17 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $46.41 | $32.82 – $62.95 | Undetermined |
| London | Ontario | $47.70 | $32.92 – $63.80 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $50.94 | $32.34 – $76.27 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $43.66 | $31.32 – $58.32 | Undetermined |
| Northwest | Ontario | $45.12 | $31.29 – $61.33 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $37.15 | $23.72 – $54.49 | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $40.43 | $26.28 – $54.25 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $43.34 | $29.38 – $56.19 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $42.36 | $28.22 – $60.24 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $44.66 | $29.99 – $60.31 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $48.00 | $33.33 – $66.05 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $43.24 | $28.20 – $62.13 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $47.81 | $30.80 – $69.94 | Undetermined |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $47.34 | $30.82 – $68.02 | 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.