NOC 2021 · 51110 · TEER 1

Editors

Unit group 51110 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

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What this group covers

Editors review, evaluate and edit manuscripts, articles, news reports and other material for publication, broadcast or interactive media and coordinate the activities of writers, journalists and other staff. They are employed by publishing firms, magazines, journals, newspapers, radio and television networks and stations, and by companies and government departments that produce publications such as newsletters, handbooks, manuals and Web sites. Editors may also work on a freelance basis.

Example job titles

As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.

advertising editor
art editor
assistant editor
associate editor
bilingual editor
book editor
business editor
caption editor
city editor
contributing editor
control room editor - broadcasting
copy chief
copy editor
copy preparer
dictionary editor
editor
editorial consultant
editorial page editor
English editor
feature editor
financial editor
financial news editor
foreign news broadcasting editor
foreign news service editor
French editor
information editor
journal editor
line editor
line-up editor
literary editor
local news editor
magazine editor
manuscript editor
medical editor
news desk editor
news editor
news editor - broadcasting
news service editor
newspaper editor
picture editor
production editor
publications editor
scientific editor
script editor
senior editor
society editor
special features editor
sport desk editor
sports editor
sub-editor
technical editor
telecommunications editor
Web site editor
writer-editor

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.

$34.62 an hour

Low $20.00, high $50.00

Where it pays most

Outaouais · Quebec$40.09
Ottawa · Ontario$38.02
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$37.91
Laurentides · Quebec$37.39
Mauricie · Quebec$37.24

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

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by province and territory.
Where	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Newfoundland and Labrador	$35.89	$24.81 – $49.70	Undetermined
Prince Edward Island	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Nova Scotia	$31.72	$22.34 – $43.10	Moderate
New Brunswick	$33.62	$26.39 – $45.03	Undetermined
Quebec	$40.00	$25.00 – $54.95	Limited
Ontario	$34.62	$20.00 – $48.72	Limited
Manitoba	$32.13	$20.87 – $56.13	Moderate
Saskatchewan	$33.19	$17.78 – $44.24	Good
Alberta	$32.50	$19.53 – $50.76	Good
British Columbia	$33.33	$20.00 – $50.00	Moderate
Yukon Territory	Not published	Not published	Undetermined
Northwest Territories	Not published	Not published	Undetermined
Nunavut	Not published	Not published	Undetermined

By economic region

The 29 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by economic region.
Where	Province	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Avalon Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$34.55	$26.97 – $50.31	Undetermined
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$30.64	$24.32 – $43.87	Moderate
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$31.74	$22.50 – $47.31	Undetermined
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$37.18	$25.59 – $54.24	Moderate
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$36.60	$28.63 – $54.55	Limited
Montérégie	Quebec	$36.27	$26.06 – $52.48	Moderate
Montréal	Quebec	$35.89	$25.23 – $52.62	Limited
Laval	Quebec	$35.97	$25.86 – $53.21	Limited
Lanaudière	Quebec	$36.66	$29.32 – $55.38	Moderate
Laurentides	Quebec	$37.39	$26.00 – $56.02	Moderate
Outaouais	Quebec	$40.09	$28.77 – $56.55	Moderate
Mauricie	Quebec	$37.24	$26.56 – $52.79	Undetermined
Ottawa	Ontario	$38.02	$27.96 – $63.68	Moderate
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$34.10	$24.58 – $50.08	Moderate
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$35.96	$25.36 – $51.64	Moderate
Toronto	Ontario	$34.81	$23.12 – $52.48	Limited
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$34.55	$27.18 – $51.50	Moderate
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$37.91	$23.32 – $48.08	Moderate
London	Ontario	$31.14	$25.07 – $47.53	Moderate
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$32.22	$23.65 – $47.49	Moderate
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$33.40	$24.39 – $52.69	Undetermined
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$32.99	$21.32 – $51.27	Limited
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$32.20	$20.56 – $49.24	Moderate
Calgary	Alberta	$30.19	$20.45 – $45.65	Good
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$29.24	$22.35 – $41.81	Undetermined
Edmonton	Alberta	$32.59	$24.19 – $51.72	Good
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$33.33	$22.00 – $48.72	Moderate
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$33.33	$20.00 – $50.00	Moderate
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$34.92	$27.74 – $53.26	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) · 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.