NOC 2021 · 72200 · TEER 2
Electricians (except industrial and power system)
Unit group 72200 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Electricians (except industrial and power system) lay out, assemble, install, test, troubleshoot and repair electrical wiring, fixtures, control devices and related equipment in buildings and other structures. They are employed by electrical contractors and maintenance departments of buildings and other establishments, or they may be self-employed. 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 construction electrician
- apprentice electrician
- building construction electrician
- building electrician
- construction and maintenance electrician
- construction electrician
- construction electrician apprentice
- domestic and rural electrician
- electrical apprentice
- electrical distribution technician - Canadian Armed Forces
- electrical fixtures installer
- electrical wirer - construction
- electrical wiring installer - construction
- electrician
- electrician - troubleshooter
- institution electrician
- journeyman/woman construction electrician
- residential construction wirer
- residential wireman/woman
- wiring electrician
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
$35.00 an hour
Low $20.00, high $48.00
Where it pays most
- Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Quebec$43.00
- Montérégie · Quebec$43.00
- Laval · Quebec$43.00
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue · Quebec$43.00
- Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean · Quebec$42.59
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 | $31.00 | $18.70 – $45.40 | Limited |
| Prince Edward Island | $26.44 | $19.84 – $40.00 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $31.00 | $19.00 – $42.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $28.00 | $18.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $41.30 | $22.40 – $44.79 | Limited |
| Ontario | $34.00 | $20.00 – $50.50 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $35.00 | $17.15 – $46.00 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $37.50 | $19.00 – $48.00 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $38.00 | $21.50 – $46.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $34.00 | $20.00 – $47.49 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northwest Territories | $40.55 | $30.14 – $50.56 | Good |
| Nunavut | $34.67 | $21.45 – $47.70 | Good |
By economic region
The 72 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $32.00 | $18.00 – $45.40 | Limited |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $30.00 | $20.00 – $50.00 | Limited |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $30.00 | $21.50 – $50.00 | Limited |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $31.00 | $18.70 – $45.40 | Limited |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $31.00 | $19.00 – $42.00 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $30.35 | $21.69 – $41.99 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $31.80 | $21.78 – $43.22 | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $28.38 | $20.07 – $36.17 | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $31.00 | $19.00 – $42.00 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $29.00 | $19.00 – $34.50 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $26.00 | $17.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $30.00 | $18.00 – $34.00 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $29.54 | $20.49 – $40.15 | Moderate |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $29.27 | $20.21 – $40.44 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $43.00 | $21.95 – $45.98 | Very limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $42.00 | $22.00 – $44.79 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $40.83 | $21.95 – $44.79 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $40.72 | $21.95 – $44.79 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $41.00 | $21.95 – $44.79 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $40.31 | $21.95 – $44.79 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $43.00 | $22.40 – $44.79 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $37.31 | $22.40 – $44.79 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $43.00 | $22.40 – $44.86 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $42.15 | $22.40 – $44.79 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $42.21 | $22.40 – $44.79 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $39.00 | $21.95 – $47.91 | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $43.00 | $25.81 – $44.86 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $38.13 | $21.95 – $45.00 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $42.59 | $23.54 – $46.12 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $40.00 | $22.40 – $47.03 | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $38.45 | $24.22 – $50.22 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $34.80 | $22.00 – $46.75 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $34.86 | $20.62 – $51.40 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $36.00 | $20.00 – $52.00 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $32.00 | $20.00 – $50.00 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $29.75 | $18.50 – $49.37 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $35.00 | $20.00 – $54.70 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $32.50 | $20.00 – $44.50 | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | $31.00 | $19.00 – $52.00 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $36.82 | $23.10 – $55.21 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $35.14 | $22.07 – $45.36 | Limited |
| South Central | Manitoba | $36.54 | $22.80 – $45.54 | Moderate |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $36.00 | $19.50 – $47.00 | Moderate |
| North Central | Manitoba | $35.00 | $17.15 – $46.00 | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $35.00 | $17.50 – $46.00 | Limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $39.80 | $16.85 – $45.00 | Moderate |
| Parklands | Manitoba | $36.75 | $24.53 – $47.87 | Moderate |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $37.00 | $21.00 – $44.50 | Moderate |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $40.00 | $18.00 – $50.00 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $37.50 | $19.00 – $48.00 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $35.00 | $24.20 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | $35.00 | $24.20 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $34.20 | $18.00 – $43.00 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $36.30 | $24.28 – $47.72 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $40.00 | $24.00 – $46.00 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $35.03 | $23.66 – $50.68 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $36.09 | $23.80 – $46.56 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $38.00 | $21.50 – $45.00 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $40.93 | $26.63 – $59.63 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $33.28 | $21.60 – $44.42 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $34.57 | $21.82 – $47.69 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $34.94 | $22.69 – $46.13 | Limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $33.39 | $23.87 – $45.30 | Very limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $37.25 | $24.76 – $53.25 | Very limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $37.93 | $26.57 – $54.53 | Very limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $38.12 | $27.12 – $54.23 | 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 Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024) · 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.