NOC 2021 · 75210 · TEER 5
Boat and cable ferry operators and related occupations
Unit group 75210 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Boat and cable ferry operators and workers in related occupations operate lock gates, bridges and similar equipment along canal systems and operate cable ferries and ferry terminals. This unit group also includes boat operators, and owner-operators, who operate small motorboats or watercraft to transport passengers or freight. They are employed by the federal government, cable ferry companies, ferry terminals, marine companies and canal, port or harbour authorities. Owner-operators of small boats are self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- barge captain
- barge operator
- beachcomber
- bridge attendant - canal lock systems
- bridge keeper - lock system
- bridgemaster
- bridgemaster - lock systems
- cable ferry deckhand
- cable ferry operator
- canal lock operator
- canal lock tender
- canal lockman/woman
- charter boat captain
- charter boat master
- charter boat operator
- dry dock worker - shipbuilding
- ferry terminal attendant
- ferry terminal worker
- launch captain
- launch master
- launch operator
- launch owner-operator
- lighthouse keeper
- lineshandler - canal lock system
- linesman/woman - canal lock system
- loading bridge operator
- loading bridge operator - ferry
- lock operator
- lockmaster
- manual cable ferry operator
- motor boat operator
- motor launch operator
- motorboat captain
- motorboat operator
- power cable ferry operator
- reaction ferry operator
- repair ship owner-operator
- scow captain
- scow operator
- sightseeing boat captain
- sightseeing boat master
- sightseeing boat operator
- small craft operator
- water bus captain
- water bus master
- water bus operator
- water taxi captain
- water taxi master
- water taxi operator
- workboat operator
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
$27.64 an hour
Low $20.00, high $47.50
Where it pays most
- North Coast · British Columbia$32.12
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$30.84
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$30.22
- Montérégie · Quebec$29.64
- Toronto · Ontario$28.80
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 | $27.00 | $20.08 – $39.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $27.67 | $19.49 – $38.99 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $26.46 | $18.11 – $37.12 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $27.75 | $21.93 – $37.65 | Limited |
| Ontario | $27.59 | $19.90 – $36.22 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $26.35 | $21.49 – $30.34 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $29.55 | $21.00 – $47.50 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 18 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $28.55 | $20.94 – $36.85 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $28.05 | $20.73 – $36.51 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $27.23 | $19.53 – $37.00 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $27.42 | $19.45 – $36.48 | Undetermined |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $26.74 | $18.94 – $37.40 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $29.64 | $22.07 – $37.90 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $28.48 | $22.91 – $35.85 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $28.80 | $21.65 – $41.22 | Undetermined |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $30.22 | $22.55 – $45.65 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $30.84 | $21.39 – $46.58 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $32.12 | $22.37 – $46.98 | 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).
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.