NOC 2021 · 75211 · TEER 5
Railway and motor transport labourers
Unit group 75211 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Railway and motor transport labourers perform a variety of tasks to assist track maintenance workers and railway yard workers, or motor transport operators. They are employed by railway transport companies and motor transport companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- car checker - railway
- car checker - railway transport
- car weigher - railway
- carman/woman helper - railway
- cold-storage checker - transport
- crossing attendant - railway
- crossing gateman/woman - railway transport
- deliverer helper
- delivery truck driver helper
- delivery truck helper
- driver helper
- engineer's assistant
- freight car checker - railway
- freight car weigher
- fuel and sand operator - railway transport
- fuel truck driver helper
- furniture mover helper
- gateman/woman - railway transport
- motor transport labourer
- mover helper
- moving van helper
- rail lubricator
- railway car decal applier
- railway car weigher
- railway labourer
- railway track labourer
- railway track maintenance labourer
- railway yard labourer
- route driver helper
- section labourer - railway
- siding checker-messenger - railway transport
- signal gang helper
- swamper - truck transport
- track greaser - railway
- track sweeper - railway
- truck driver helper
- yard labourer - railway transport
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
$22.00 an hour
Low $17.00, high $30.00
Where it pays most
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$25.00
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$25.00
- Bas-Saint-Laurent · Quebec$24.79
- Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean · Quebec$24.00
- Northeast · Ontario$24.00
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 | $16.90 | $16.00 – $28.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $18.00 | $16.50 – $29.00 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $18.75 | $16.00 – $25.25 | Limited |
| Quebec | $22.00 | $18.00 – $30.79 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $20.41 | $17.60 – $29.00 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $23.48 | $17.00 – $31.00 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | $22.18 | $16.65 – $30.00 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $23.00 | $18.00 – $30.00 | Very limited |
| British Columbia | $24.50 | $18.75 – $33.00 | Very limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | $23.16 | $19.00 – $30.89 | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 25 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $24.79 | $18.00 – $38.00 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $22.00 | $18.63 – $28.00 | Undetermined |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $25.00 | $20.00 – $34.53 | Undetermined |
| Estrie | Quebec | $21.90 | $18.00 – $27.00 | Undetermined |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $23.86 | $18.00 – $31.78 | Very limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $22.78 | $18.00 – $30.84 | Very limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $20.00 | $17.00 – $26.30 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $22.00 | $18.00 – $28.00 | Very limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $22.60 | $17.50 – $35.54 | Very limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $22.50 | $17.00 – $30.00 | Very limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $22.88 | $18.00 – $35.00 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $20.00 | $17.00 – $30.00 | Very limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $24.00 | $18.00 – $32.00 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $21.73 | $17.60 – $30.00 | Very limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $20.41 | $17.60 – $29.00 | Very limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $27.00 | Very limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $21.50 | $17.60 – $30.57 | Very limited |
| London | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $25.00 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $24.00 | $18.00 – $30.28 | Limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $23.00 | $16.00 – $31.00 | Very limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $21.00 | $17.50 – $27.25 | Very limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $23.00 | $18.00 – $29.25 | Very limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $23.00 | $18.75 – $33.00 | Very limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $25.00 | $18.00 – $33.79 | 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 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.