NOC 2021 · 53122 · TEER 3
Painters, sculptors and other visual artists
Unit group 53122 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Painters, sculptors and other visual artists create original paintings, drawings, sculptures, engravings and other artistic works. They are usually self-employed. This unit group also includes art instructors and teachers, who are usually employed by art schools.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- animal art painter
- animal art sculptor
- art instructor
- art instructor (except primary, secondary, post-secondary education)
- art teacher (except primary, secondary and post-secondary education)
- artist
- artistic painter
- artistic printmaker
- charcoal artist
- clay modeller
- decorations painter - visual arts
- etcher - visual arts
- ice sculptor
- ink sketcher
- Inuit art sculptor
- landscape painter
- lithographic artist
- maritime art painter
- metal sculptor
- monument sculptor
- mural landscape artist
- mural painter
- oil painter
- painter - visual arts
- painting teacher
- plastic arts artist
- portrait painter
- printmaker - visual arts
- printmaking teacher
- scenery painter
- scenic painter - visual arts
- sculptor
- sculptor-modeller
- sculpture teacher (except primary, secondary, post-secondary education)
- sculpturing teacher (except primary, secondary, post-secondary education)
- silhouette artist
- silkscreen artist
- video artist
- visual arts artist
- visual arts teacher (except primary, secondary, post-secondary education)
- watercolourist
- wood block artist
- wood sculptor
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
$29.57 an hour
Low $18.75, high $45.09
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $26.00 | $19.40 – $43.00 | Undetermined |
| Ontario | $25.71 | $18.24 – $43.15 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $29.00 | $18.00 – $50.00 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $41.26 | $24.50 – $47.34 | Undetermined |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 1 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
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 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.