NOC 2021 · 73201 · TEER 3
General building maintenance workers and building superintendents
Unit group 73201 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
General building maintenance workers perform tasks related to the general maintenance of buildings. They execute minor repair work, maintain equipment and installations and perform preventive inspection of systems relating to building mechanics. Building superintendents employed in large establishments are responsible for the operation of the establishment and may also supervise other workers. They are employed by office and apartment building management companies, condominium corporations, educational institutions, health care facilities, recreational and shopping facilities, religious, industrial and other establishments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- airport maintenance worker
- apartment building maintenance worker
- apartment maintenance man/woman
- building handyman/woman
- building handyperson
- building maintenance worker
- building operator - maintenance
- building services worker
- building superintendent
- facility maintenance operator
- factory maintenance man/woman
- factory maintenance worker
- handyman/woman
- handyperson
- maintenance person - building
- plant maintenance worker
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
$25.00 an hour
Low $16.55, high $38.46
Where it pays most
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$30.00
- Cariboo · British Columbia$29.36
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$29.02
- Kootenay · British Columbia$29.00
- North Coast · British Columbia$29.00
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 | $22.12 | $16.00 – $37.00 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | $24.00 | $16.50 – $29.91 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $24.04 | $16.50 – $29.54 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $20.67 | $16.00 – $29.00 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $25.00 | $17.00 – $36.25 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $24.00 | $17.60 – $39.00 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $23.19 | $16.00 – $32.69 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $24.21 | $16.00 – $33.00 | Good |
| Alberta | $28.00 | $23.00 – $42.25 | Good |
| British Columbia | $29.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | $33.98 | $23.12 – $41.38 | Moderate |
| Northwest Territories | $36.93 | $21.88 – $47.72 | Good |
| Nunavut | $35.23 | $19.20 – $50.83 | 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 | $23.36 | $16.00 – $37.00 | Good |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $21.00 | $16.00 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $25.07 | $18.46 – $39.80 | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $21.00 | $16.00 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $22.75 | $18.48 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $23.00 | $18.48 – $26.80 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $24.04 | $16.50 – $29.54 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $24.04 | $16.50 – $29.54 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $25.00 | $16.50 – $29.54 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $20.67 | $16.00 – $29.00 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $21.00 | $16.00 – $26.00 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $20.00 | $15.65 – $26.69 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $20.50 | $17.00 – $29.00 | Good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $20.67 | $16.00 – $29.00 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $23.00 | $20.00 – $25.40 | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $25.00 | $17.00 – $36.25 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $25.00 | $17.00 – $36.25 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $25.00 | $17.00 – $36.25 | Good |
| Estrie | Quebec | $22.00 | $19.00 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $23.00 | $17.50 – $26.75 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $25.00 | $17.00 – $36.25 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $22.00 | $17.00 – $33.65 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $25.00 | $16.25 – $33.33 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $24.88 | $19.20 – $32.14 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $27.88 | $23.00 – $37.00 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $22.00 | $18.00 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $23.53 | $17.73 – $28.54 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $26.00 | $23.00 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | $26.00 | $23.00 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $25.00 | $18.40 – $34.51 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $21.39 | $18.67 – $39.00 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $25.00 | $18.50 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $24.00 | $17.60 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $25.00 | $17.60 – $36.06 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $21.00 | $17.60 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $48.08 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $22.50 | $17.60 – $31.50 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $24.64 | $19.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | $26.00 | $17.60 – $33.33 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $24.90 | $18.64 – $35.39 | Good |
| South Central | Manitoba | $23.83 | $18.89 – $31.77 | Moderate |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $23.19 | $16.00 – $32.75 | Good |
| North Central | Manitoba | $23.19 | $16.00 – $32.69 | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $22.80 | $16.00 – $32.69 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $23.61 | $16.00 – $31.33 | Moderate |
| Parklands | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $24.21 | $19.00 – $32.45 | Very good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $23.56 | $16.00 – $45.00 | Very good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $26.00 | $15.35 – $36.00 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $24.21 | $15.35 – $34.00 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | $24.21 | $15.35 – $34.00 | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $25.25 | $20.00 – $34.51 | Good |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $28.00 | $23.00 – $42.25 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $28.00 | $24.00 – $41.51 | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $26.00 | $20.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $28.00 | $23.00 – $42.25 | Good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $28.00 | $24.00 – $44.62 | Good |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $26.00 | $20.00 – $36.71 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $30.00 | $24.00 – $54.36 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $28.85 | $19.23 – $38.00 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $28.85 | $22.00 – $45.68 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $29.02 | $20.59 – $41.35 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $29.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $29.36 | $22.83 – $38.20 | Limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $29.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Northeast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | 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) · 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.