NOC 2021 · 72022 · TEER 2
Supervisors, printing and related occupations
Unit group 72022 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Supervisors of workers in printing and related occupations supervise and coordinate the activities of workers who produce camera work and printing plates and cylinders, process film, print text and illustrations on paper, metal and other material, and bind and finish printed products. They are employed by companies that specialize in commercial printing or one of its components, such as binding or colour reproduction, in combined printing and publishing companies, such as newspapers and magazines, and in various establishments in both the public and private sectors that have in-house printing departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- binders foreman/woman - printing
- binders supervisor - printing
- bindery foreman/woman - printing
- bindery supervisor - printing
- bindery workers supervisor - printing
- composing foreman/woman - printing
- composing room supervisor - printing
- compositors foreman/woman - printing
- compositors supervisor - printing
- engravers foreman/woman (except photoengravers) - printing
- engraving foreman/woman (except photoengraving) - printing
- film developers foreman/woman
- film developers supervisor
- film printers foreman/woman
- film printing foreman/woman
- film printing supervisor
- film processing foreman/woman
- film processing supervisor
- film processors foreman/woman
- film processors supervisor
- filmsetter operators supervisor
- filmsetters supervisor
- finishing foreman/woman - printing
- finishing supervisor - printing
- gravure press operators foreman/woman
- gravure printers foreman/woman
- hand compositors supervisor
- hot composition foreman/woman - printing
- letterpress foreman/woman - printing
- letterpress room foreman/woman
- mechanical composition foreman/woman - printing
- offset lithography foreman/woman - printing
- offset press foreman/woman - printing
- offset press operators foreman/woman - printing
- OptiCopy and stripping foreman/woman - printing
- photocomposer operators supervisor
- photocomposers supervisor
- photoengravers foreman/woman
- photographic and film processing foreman/woman
- photographic and film processing supervisor
- photographic lab foreman/woman
- photographic processing and finishing foreman/woman
- photographic processors supervisor
- platemakers supervisor
- platemaking supervisor - printing
- plateroom supervisor - printing
- preparatory supervisor - printing
- prepress supervisor - printing
- prepress workers supervisor
- press supervisor - printing
- pressroom foreman/woman - printing
- pressroom supervisor - printing
- printers foreman/woman
- printers supervisor
- printing press operators supervisor
- printing shop foreman/woman
- printing supervisor
- production supervisor - printing
- rotogravure foreman/woman
- rotogravure press operators foreman/woman - printing
- rotogravure pressmen/women foreman/woman - printing
- stereotypists and electroplaters foreman/woman
- typesetters foreman/woman - printing
- typesetters supervisor - printing
- typographers supervisor
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
$30.00 an hour
Low $23.08, high $41.35
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$35.57
- Laurentides · Quebec$33.58
- Laval · Quebec$33.52
- Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie · Ontario$33.40
- Edmonton · Alberta$32.53
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 | $31.33 | $23.50 – $37.93 | Good |
| Ontario | $30.00 | $25.63 – $41.35 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $31.73 | $23.26 – $41.30 | Good |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $31.31 | $22.30 – $40.97 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $34.95 | $27.47 – $42.12 | 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 19 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 | $31.51 | $23.67 – $42.55 | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $31.59 | $26.77 – $39.71 | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $32.06 | $24.82 – $41.11 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $31.62 | $24.03 – $39.95 | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | $33.52 | $25.40 – $44.16 | Good |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $32.18 | $24.60 – $40.72 | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $33.58 | $25.88 – $43.08 | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $31.42 | $23.45 – $41.76 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $30.00 | $25.63 – $41.35 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $33.40 | $25.65 – $45.71 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $31.36 | $24.64 – $37.74 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $32.06 | $22.27 – $41.54 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $29.65 | $21.38 – $38.10 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $32.53 | $24.24 – $41.04 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $35.57 | $28.76 – $44.38 | 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.