NOC 2021 · 72600 · TEER 2
Air pilots, flight engineers and flying instructors
Unit group 72600 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Air pilots fly fixed wing aircraft and helicopters to provide air transportation and other services such as crop spraying and aerial surveying. Flight engineers assist air pilots with monitoring, troubleshooting and maintenance of aircraft systems and with pre- and post-flight inspections. Flying instructors teach flying techniques and procedures to student and licensed pilots. Air pilots, flight engineers and flight instructors are employed by airline and air freight companies, flying schools and by other public and private sector aircraft operators.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aerial crop duster
- aerial crop dusting service contractor
- aerial sprayer
- aerial survey flight supervisor
- aerial survey pilot
- air navigator
- air patrol pilot
- air pilot
- air pilot and flight engineer supervisor
- air pilots and navigators supervisor
- airline pilot
- airline pilot instructor
- airline test pilot
- airplane pilot
- bush pilot
- business aircraft pilot
- captain - air transport
- charter pilot
- check pilot
- chief flying instructor
- chief pilot
- chief pilot - air transport
- commercial airline pilot
- commercial pilot
- co-pilot
- co-pilot - air transport
- corporate pilot
- engineering test pilot
- executive pilot
- experimental test pilot
- fire patrol pilot
- first officer - air transport
- flight engineer
- flight instructor
- flight simulator instructor
- flying instructor
- forest spray pilot
- forestry patrol pilot
- helicopter chief pilot
- helicopter flight instructor
- helicopter pilot
- mapping pilot
- navigator - air transport
- pilot - air transport
- pilot - Canadian Armed Forces
- pilot instructor
- pipeline air patrol pilot
- power line air patrol pilot
- relief pilot
- remote sensing pilot
- second officer - air transport
- spray pilot
- survey pilot
- test pilot
- topographic survey pilot
- water bomber pilot
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
$52.00 an hour
Low $24.04, high $106.00
Where it pays most
- Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie · Ontario$68.60
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$63.46
- Muskoka--Kawarthas · Ontario$63.37
- Ottawa · Ontario$63.00
- Toronto · Ontario$63.00
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 | $41.87 | $20.00 – $84.13 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $44.00 | $24.00 – $77.16 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $55.29 | $27.00 – $85.10 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $50.56 | $27.81 – $86.72 | Limited |
| Ontario | $63.00 | $28.85 – $126.92 | Good |
| Manitoba | $45.11 | $22.81 – $80.84 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $50.00 | $24.23 – $79.07 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $54.11 | $28.05 – $89.95 | Good |
| British Columbia | $57.69 | $30.00 – $96.15 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northwest Territories | $41.43 | $24.55 – $59.91 | Good |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 53 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 | Not published | Not published | Good |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $44.00 | $24.00 – $77.16 | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $48.08 | $25.00 – $77.16 | Good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $55.29 | $23.32 – $85.10 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $48.25 | $25.52 – $79.22 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $51.60 | $28.52 – $81.72 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $47.33 | $28.43 – $69.67 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $57.81 | $35.30 – $93.99 | Undetermined |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $51.71 | $34.13 – $75.77 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $53.33 | $29.56 – $84.01 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $52.81 | $28.79 – $85.73 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $53.24 | $31.81 – $89.50 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $48.74 | $28.40 – $73.30 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $63.00 | $28.85 – $126.92 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $63.37 | $34.19 – $101.89 | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $63.00 | $28.85 – $126.92 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $68.60 | $37.90 – $103.25 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $63.46 | $29.70 – $144.23 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $60.98 | $35.60 – $88.54 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $59.14 | $32.28 – $91.60 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $59.93 | $32.94 – $80.12 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $58.13 | $31.84 – $82.94 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $54.83 | $29.18 – $79.12 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $45.04 | $23.43 – $83.64 | Good |
| South Central | Manitoba | $46.07 | $26.64 – $74.23 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $47.70 | $24.95 – $80.23 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $53.66 | $29.89 – $88.40 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $56.83 | $30.31 – $86.95 | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $53.00 | $29.41 – $76.59 | Good |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $53.57 | $30.16 – $82.47 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $55.61 | $30.76 – $83.51 | Good |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $60.54 | $33.39 – $91.15 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $58.21 | $34.34 – $90.50 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $57.19 | $30.93 – $88.53 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $56.14 | $31.74 – $84.75 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | 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).
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.