NOC 2021 · 53123 · TEER 3
Theatre, fashion, exhibit and other creative designers
Unit group 53123 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Theatre, fashion, exhibit and other creative designers conceptualize and produce designs for film, television, theatre and video productions, garments and textiles, displays and exhibits, and for other creative items such as jewellery and trophies. Theatre designers are employed by performing arts and broadcasting companies and by festivals; fashion designers are employed by clothing and textile companies or may be self-employed; and exhibit designers are employed by museums. Other creative designers in this unit group are employed by manufacturing establishments or may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- assistant costume designer
- clothing designer
- costume designer
- couturier - haute couture
- crest designer
- designer - theatre
- display designer - museums and art galleries
- embroidery designer
- exhibit designer
- exhibit designers supervisor
- exhibition designer - museums and art galleries
- fabric designer
- facilities designer
- fashion coordinator
- fashion designer
- fashion goods exhibit coordinator
- fashion stylist
- fashion wear designer
- fishing lure designer
- food stylist
- fur designer
- garment designer
- glove designer
- handbag designer
- hat designer
- heraldist
- jacket designer
- jewellery designer
- lighting designer
- luggage designer
- luggage stylist
- memorial designer
- museum designer
- museum exhibit designer
- novelties stylist
- pottery designer
- rug designer
- scene designer assistant
- scene designer
- set decorator - theatre and motion pictures
- set designer - theatre
- shoe designer
- show and demonstration designer
- sound designer
- stage scenery designer
- swimming pool designer
- textile designer
- theatre designer
- tile designer
- toy designer - arts and crafts
- trophy designer
- women's fashion designer
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
$31.25 an hour
Low $17.85, high $47.96
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$38.00
- Toronto · Ontario$34.95
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$32.59
- Montréal · Quebec$31.25
- Calgary · Alberta$28.80
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 | 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 | $26.35 | $17.00 – $43.75 | Limited |
| Ontario | $32.59 | $18.41 – $52.70 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $26.73 | $16.50 – $41.42 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $37.37 | $23.75 – $50.00 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 16 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $26.35 | $17.00 – $43.75 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $26.35 | $17.00 – $43.75 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $26.35 | $17.00 – $43.75 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $26.35 | $17.00 – $43.75 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $27.57 | $17.00 – $46.00 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $31.25 | $17.90 – $45.67 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $27.09 | $16.10 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $26.35 | $17.00 – $43.75 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $34.95 | $19.03 – $54.08 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $32.59 | $18.41 – $52.70 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $28.80 | $17.75 – $42.49 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $38.00 | $24.00 – $50.00 | Limited |
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.