NOC 2021 · 74201 · TEER 4
Water transport deck and engine room crew
Unit group 74201 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Water transport deck and engine room crew stand watch, operate and maintain deck equipment, perform other deck and bridge duties and assist ship engineer officers to operate, maintain and repair engines, machinery and auxiliary equipment aboard ships or self-propelled vessels. They are employed by marine transportation companies and federal government departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- able seaman/woman (except armed forces)
- barge deckhand
- boatswain
- boatswain - Canadian Armed Forces
- boatswain - water transport
- boiler tender - ships
- deckhand
- deckhand - ships
- dredge deckhand
- engine room crew member - ship
- engine room greaser - marine
- engine room greaser - water transport
- engine room mechanical assistant - ships
- ferryboat deckhand
- helmsman/woman - water transport
- log boom tugboat deckhand
- marine engine oiler
- marine engineering mechanic
- marine engineering technician
- marine oiler
- mechanical assistant - water transport
- mechanical assistant, ship's engine room
- ordinary seaman/woman (except armed forces)
- pump seaman/woman
- pumpman/woman - ships
- quartermaster
- seaman/woman
- ship boiler tender
- ship engine and boiler room crew member
- ship engine room greaser
- ship engine room mechanical assistant
- ship stoker
- ship tunnel operator
- ship tunnelman/woman
- ship watchman/woman
- ship's carpenter
- stoker - ships
- tanker pumper - ship
- tugboat deckhand
- wheelsman/woman
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
$28.00 an hour
Low $17.75, high $43.00
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$34.68
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$31.08
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$30.43
- North Shore · Nova Scotia$30.24
- Toronto · Ontario$30.23
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 | $26.00 | $16.03 – $35.58 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $25.79 | $19.64 – $30.00 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $28.00 | $16.50 – $40.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $27.43 | $19.24 – $42.34 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $27.00 | $18.00 – $34.61 | Limited |
| Ontario | $30.05 | $19.00 – $35.44 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $28.46 | $22.37 – $36.78 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $32.00 | $24.00 – $42.37 | 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 28 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 | $25.00 | $16.00 – $36.00 | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $28.00 | $16.03 – $34.00 | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $28.00 | $16.03 – $34.00 | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $29.86 | $22.60 – $44.59 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $30.24 | $24.34 – $42.91 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $30.16 | $24.07 – $39.42 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $27.01 | $20.15 – $37.92 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $25.00 | $17.30 – $30.85 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $26.25 | $18.69 – $34.81 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $25.75 | $18.00 – $34.00 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $25.99 | $20.00 – $34.61 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $27.02 | $17.00 – $35.00 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $30.02 | $20.00 – $35.65 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $30.23 | $25.00 – $35.10 | Very limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $31.08 | $18.10 – $36.68 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $30.43 | $25.00 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $34.68 | $20.00 – $43.30 | Very limited |
| 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) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (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.