NOC 2021 · 72104 · TEER 2
Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters
Unit group 72104 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters fabricate, assemble, fit and install steel or other metal components for buildings, bridges, tanks, towers, boilers, pressure vessels and other similar structures and products. They are employed in structural steel, boiler and platework fabrication plants and by heavy machinery manufacturing and shipbuilding companies. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- apprentice fitter - shipbuilding
- apprentice metal fabricator
- apprentice metal shipwright
- apprentice shipfitter
- apprentice ship's plater
- apprentice steel fabricator
- apprentice structural metal and platework fabricator
- apprentice structural steel and platework fitter
- apprentice structural steel fabricator
- bridge and girder plater
- fabricator - structural metal
- fitter - metal fabrication
- fitter - shipbuilding
- fitter - structural metal fabrication
- fitter lead hand - structural metal and platework
- marine steel fitter
- metal fabricator
- metal fabricator - structural metal and platework
- metal fabricator (fitter)
- metal preparation lead hand - structural metal and platework
- metal shipwright
- plater
- plater - shipbuilding
- plater-welder
- platework fabricator
- platework fabricator and fitter
- platework fitter
- shaper, structural steel plates
- shipbuilding fitter
- shipfitter
- shipfitter apprentice
- ship's plater
- steel fabricator
- steel fabricator - structural metal and platework
- steel fitter - metal platework
- steel fitter - structural metal
- steel plate shaper - ships
- structural metal and platework fabricator
- structural metal and platework fabricator apprentice
- structural metal and platework fitter
- structural metal and platework fitter-welder
- structural metal and platework layout developer
- structural metal and platework layout marker
- structural metal and platework plater
- structural metal fabricator
- structural metal fitter
- structural metal fitter-assembler
- structural metal layout marker
- structural metal worker
- structural steel and platework fitter
- structural steel fabricator
- structural steel fitter
- structural steel plate shaper
- structural steel plate worker-fitter
- structural steelwork and platework fitter
- tube fitter - structural metal and platework
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
$29.00 an hour
Low $21.00, high $43.30
Where it pays most
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$35.63
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$35.00
- Edmonton · Alberta$33.00
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$32.11
- Halifax · Nova Scotia$31.00
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 | $30.00 | $21.49 – $42.00 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $25.75 | $20.00 – $40.24 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $26.80 | $20.00 – $43.46 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $27.48 | $20.00 – $37.00 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $24.00 | $18.00 – $30.80 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $28.00 | $21.00 – $38.50 | Limited |
| Alberta | $33.00 | $22.00 – $44.00 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $35.00 | $24.00 – $46.15 | 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 20 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $31.00 | $22.00 – $43.00 | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $26.80 | $20.00 – $43.46 | Very limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $27.11 | $21.00 – $32.38 | Very limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $25.48 | $20.00 – $43.00 | Very limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $24.02 | $18.00 – $37.69 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $28.50 | $19.66 – $43.45 | Very limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $30.00 | $20.00 – $44.34 | Very limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $27.72 | $20.00 – $42.19 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $27.68 | $21.00 – $36.14 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $28.00 | $22.00 – $35.76 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $26.36 | $20.00 – $32.53 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $27.48 | $20.00 – $37.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $30.00 | $21.00 – $44.94 | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $33.00 | $23.00 – $41.06 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $35.63 | $25.00 – $48.37 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $35.00 | $23.50 – $45.64 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $32.11 | $25.00 – $38.50 | Very 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.