NOC 2021 · 44101 · TEER 4
Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations
Unit group 44101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations, provide personal care and companionship for seniors, persons with disabilities and convalescent clients. They provide care in the client's residence, where they may also reside. They are employed by home care and support agencies, private households, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- attendant for persons with a visual impairment - home care
- attendant for persons with disabilities - home care
- client care attendant - home care
- companion
- domestic helper
- doula
- family caregiver
- family worker - home care
- home health care worker
- home helper
- home support attendant
- home support worker
- home-care worker
- homemaker
- live-in caregiver
- live-in caregiver - persons with disabilities
- live-in caregiver - seniors
- personal aide - home support
- personal assistant - home care
- personal care aide - home care
- personal care attendant - home care
- personal care provider - home care
- personal support aide - home aide
- personal support worker - home support
- respite worker - home support
- teaching homemaker
- visiting homemaker
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
$20.50 an hour
Low $16.00, high $27.00
Where it pays most
- Northeast · British Columbia$26.51
- Kootenay · British Columbia$26.42
- North Coast · British Columbia$25.94
- Northwest · Ontario$25.85
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$24.65
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 | $17.05 | $16.00 – $18.00 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | $22.00 | $17.00 – $26.38 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $22.00 | $16.50 – $25.00 | Very good |
| New Brunswick | $20.00 | $16.00 – $21.00 | Good |
| Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $28.00 | Good |
| Manitoba | $17.75 | $16.00 – $23.00 | Good |
| Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $15.35 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $20.00 | $15.50 – $25.25 | Good |
| British Columbia | $24.50 | $18.25 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | $35.00 | $20.77 – $37.89 | Moderate |
| Northwest Territories | $33.92 | $23.00 – $41.94 | Moderate |
| Nunavut | $37.61 | $26.53 – $52.39 | Moderate |
By economic region
The 72 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 | $17.05 | $16.00 – $18.70 | Good |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.05 | $16.00 – $17.73 | Good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.05 | $16.55 – $17.80 | Good |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.05 | $16.00 – $17.73 | Good |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $23.00 | $16.50 – $24.18 | Very good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $19.00 | $16.50 – $24.83 | Very good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $22.02 | $18.92 – $25.11 | Very good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $21.84 | $17.51 – $24.00 | Very good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $21.30 | $16.61 – $24.83 | Very good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $20.00 | $16.00 – $22.00 | Good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $19.00 | $16.00 – $21.20 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $19.00 | $17.00 – $20.40 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $19.43 | $17.62 – $20.85 | Good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $19.24 | $16.70 – $20.80 | Good |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $21.00 | $19.27 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $19.75 | $18.00 – $24.00 | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $22.00 | $20.54 – $32.93 | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $19.27 | $17.50 – $23.00 | Good |
| Estrie | Quebec | $21.65 | $19.27 – $30.43 | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $20.81 | $19.02 – $22.50 | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $21.25 | $19.00 – $26.00 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $20.00 | $16.10 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $26.00 | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $22.00 | $16.10 – $25.63 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $19.27 | $16.10 – $22.77 | Good |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $21.58 | $18.00 – $23.51 | Good |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $21.75 | $16.10 – $32.93 | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $26.00 | Good |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $20.00 | $19.00 – $24.73 | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | $20.00 | $19.00 – $24.73 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $22.50 | $18.50 – $27.00 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $22.25 | $17.60 – $50.00 | Very good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $23.07 | $18.85 – $29.01 | Very good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $21.00 | $17.60 – $27.00 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $22.60 | $18.00 – $28.00 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $22.00 | $19.00 – $28.00 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $27.88 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $23.40 | $17.60 – $27.10 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $23.31 | $18.88 – $30.01 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $23.00 | $18.95 – $27.10 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $25.85 | $22.00 – $30.00 | Good |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $19.43 | $16.61 – $24.05 | Good |
| South Central | Manitoba | $18.00 | $16.00 – $23.06 | Moderate |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $18.00 | $16.00 – $22.40 | Moderate |
| North Central | Manitoba | $18.00 | $16.00 – $23.06 | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $16.95 | $16.00 – $22.50 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $17.75 | $16.00 – $23.00 | Moderate |
| Parklands | Manitoba | $19.24 | $16.00 – $22.00 | Moderate |
| North | Manitoba | $16.75 | $16.00 – $19.40 | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $15.35 – $25.35 | Moderate |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $18.40 | $16.50 – $24.31 | Very good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $17.00 – $28.85 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $20.98 | $16.00 – $24.00 | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $16.50 – $28.00 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $16.50 – $28.00 | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $20.00 | $18.00 – $22.56 | Good |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $22.09 | $18.75 – $26.82 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $20.00 | $17.00 – $26.00 | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $21.17 | $17.53 – $26.56 | Good |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $21.07 | $18.00 – $25.77 | Good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $20.00 | $15.00 – $25.25 | Good |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $21.72 | $17.86 – $28.87 | Good |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $23.45 | $20.50 – $28.25 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $24.65 | $21.00 – $30.00 | Good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $24.50 | $18.25 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $24.34 | $19.60 – $28.34 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $26.42 | $20.58 – $30.15 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $23.00 | $19.00 – $28.75 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $25.94 | $21.26 – $29.32 | Moderate |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $26.51 | $22.33 – $29.78 | Moderate |
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) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (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.