NOC 2021 · 72204 · TEER 2
Telecommunications line and cable installers and repairers
Unit group 72204 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Telecommunications line and cable installers and repairers install, repair and maintain telecommunication lines and cables, cable television transmission and distribution systems and associated hardware. They are employed by cable television, telephone and other telecommunications service 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.
- access technician - telecommunication
- apprentice lineman/woman - telecommunications
- cable installer - telecommunications
- cable repair technician - telecommunications
- cable repairer - telecommunications
- cable television installation technician
- cable television installer
- cable television maintenance technician
- cable tester - telecommunications
- communication line technician
- communication technician - construction
- communications electrician - construction craft
- community antenna television (CATV) installation technician
- community antenna television (CATV) maintenance technician
- construction technician - cable television
- construction technician - telecommunications
- fibre optic cable splicer
- journeyman/woman lineman/woman - telecommunications
- line inspector - telecommunications
- line installer - telecommunications
- line repairer - telecommunications
- repair lineman/woman - telecommunications
- rigger - telecommunications
- section lineman/woman - telecommunications
- service tracer - telecommunications
- signal tracer - telecommunications
- splicer - telecommunications
- splicer technician - telecommunications
- splicer technician - telephone
- structured cabling technician
- telecommunication cable installer
- telecommunication cable repairer
- telecommunication line construction technician
- telecommunication line technician
- telecommunications cable splicer
- telecommunications line installer
- telecommunications lineman/woman
- telecontrol technologist
- telephone cable splicer
- telephone line and cableman/woman
- telephone line technician
- toll line inspector - telecommunications
- toll line repairman/woman - telecommunications
- toll lineman/woman - telecommunications
- tracer - telecommunications
- underground cable splicer - telecommunications
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
$36.00 an hour
Low $23.00, high $43.00
Where it pays most
- Cariboo · British Columbia$41.36
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$40.29
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$40.25
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$40.03
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$39.07
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 | $33.48 | $23.41 – $37.88 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $32.00 | $20.00 – $43.59 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $32.00 | $20.00 – $43.51 | Limited |
| Quebec | $33.87 | $24.13 – $44.44 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $36.00 | $23.00 – $38.00 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $28.00 | $22.50 – $41.67 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $22.00 – $40.90 | Good |
| Alberta | $38.00 | $23.00 – $55.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $39.32 | $27.97 – $45.41 | 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 47 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 | $34.02 | $21.89 – $39.76 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $35.84 | $23.45 – $42.99 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $28.77 | $20.19 – $34.74 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $33.37 | $24.30 – $40.01 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $33.32 | $24.12 – $39.70 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $32.21 | $23.02 – $38.09 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $28.42 | $21.20 – $36.24 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $31.25 | $24.77 – $40.55 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $29.45 | $23.29 – $37.95 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $29.26 | $23.97 – $36.21 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $32.96 | $22.96 – $41.18 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $33.78 | $24.83 – $40.43 | Very limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $33.71 | $23.83 – $41.57 | Very limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $35.21 | $23.25 – $44.17 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $35.26 | $25.95 – $43.55 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $33.45 | $23.19 – $42.47 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $33.13 | $22.25 – $41.88 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $33.23 | $22.99 – $41.34 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $34.12 | $23.76 – $43.93 | Very limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $33.80 | $24.74 – $41.80 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $33.38 | $23.37 – $39.13 | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $32.62 | $24.74 – $41.83 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $31.08 | $21.14 – $42.07 | Very limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $32.09 | $24.09 – $41.61 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $33.39 | $24.25 – $44.40 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $32.82 | $23.21 – $42.18 | Very limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $35.21 | $25.81 – $46.63 | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $34.28 | $22.97 – $50.85 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $36.00 | $29.50 – $37.65 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $33.96 | $23.40 – $42.99 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $33.83 | $24.47 – $43.73 | Very limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $34.09 | $25.10 – $44.37 | Very limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $33.00 | $28.00 – $44.00 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $36.31 | $27.60 – $47.42 | Limited |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $27.18 | $22.00 – $30.00 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $28.85 | $17.73 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $22.00 – $40.90 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $30.00 | $22.00 – $40.90 | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $36.67 | $27.55 – $46.62 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $38.00 | $23.00 – $55.00 | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $39.07 | $30.14 – $55.44 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $38.00 | $23.00 – $55.00 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $40.25 | $29.38 – $49.81 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $40.03 | $28.72 – $47.30 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $40.29 | $28.96 – $50.22 | Limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $41.36 | $30.84 – $50.09 | Undetermined |
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.