NOC 2021 · 82020 · TEER 2
Supervisors, mining and quarrying
Unit group 82020 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Supervisors in mining and quarrying supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in underground and surface mining operations and quarries. They are employed by coal, metal and non-metallic mineral mines and quarries.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- blasters foreman/woman - mining and quarrying
- blasters foreman/woman - quarrying
- blasters foreman/woman - surface mining
- coal mine foreman/woman
- construction supervisor - underground mining and quarrying
- diamond drilling foreman/woman
- drill fitter boss - mining
- drill fitter foreman/woman - mining
- drilling foreman/woman - mining and quarrying
- dynamiters foreman/woman - quarrying
- face boss - underground mining
- fill foreman/woman
- fill foreman/woman - underground mining
- fire boss - mining
- general foreman/woman - mining
- junior foreman/woman - mining
- level boss - underground mining
- mine captain
- mine foreman/woman
- mine supervisor
- motormen/women and dinkeymen/women foreman/woman (except rail transport)
- open pit mine supervisor
- production foreman/woman - mining and quarrying
- quarry foreman/woman
- quarry supervisor
- relieving surface foreman/woman - mining
- salvage foreman/woman - mining
- sand fill boss - underground mining
- senior foreman/woman - mining
- shift boss - mining and quarrying
- shift foreman/woman - mining and quarrying
- shift leader - mining and quarrying
- shot foreman/woman - mining and quarrying
- stope foreman/woman - mining
- supply boss - mining
- supply foreman/woman - mining
- surface foreman/woman - mining
- surface mine foreman/woman
- surface mine supervisor
- track boss - underground mining
- track layer boss - underground mining
- underground mine foreman/woman
- yard boss - mining and quarrying
- yard supervisor - mining and quarrying
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
$50.62 an hour
Low $30.00, high $74.79
Where it pays most
- Swift Current--Moose Jaw · Saskatchewan$70.30
- Prince Albert · Saskatchewan$68.67
- Yorkton--Melville · Saskatchewan$66.62
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$65.61
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$64.69
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 | $56.32 | $32.05 – $102.00 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $52.00 | $28.62 – $64.00 | Limited |
| New Brunswick | $40.56 | $26.54 – $70.84 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $48.00 | $27.50 – $69.93 | Good |
| Ontario | $52.40 | $27.80 – $75.96 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $48.08 | $36.50 – $56.25 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $57.69 | $37.46 – $84.54 | Good |
| Alberta | $51.24 | $27.00 – $70.77 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $56.37 | $37.05 – $86.02 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | $58.63 | $34.29 – $90.48 | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 58 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 | $50.37 | $39.03 – $59.98 | Undetermined |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $57.87 | $39.28 – $80.24 | Good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $57.69 | $32.00 – $75.55 | Good |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $51.17 | $36.26 – $72.09 | Limited |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $43.26 | $27.66 – $55.12 | Limited |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $40.64 | $27.54 – $68.27 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $56.10 | $36.26 – $73.23 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $55.68 | $35.72 – $69.19 | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $59.31 | $37.15 – $74.75 | Very good |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $63.27 | $35.89 – $95.13 | Very good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $62.21 | $39.28 – $81.88 | Undetermined |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $54.49 | $21.00 – $68.68 | Very good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $58.17 | $35.50 – $74.96 | Good |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $56.00 | $20.00 – $72.12 | Very good |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | $56.00 | $20.00 – $72.12 | Very good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $45.99 | $30.15 – $56.44 | Undetermined |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $48.37 | $32.13 – $63.74 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $46.14 | $29.49 – $58.94 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $48.93 | $31.32 – $65.45 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $47.44 | $30.30 – $60.25 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $46.80 | $32.36 – $59.38 | Undetermined |
| London | Ontario | $44.45 | $30.69 – $56.20 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $49.77 | $30.71 – $62.97 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $47.64 | $31.33 – $62.39 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $57.00 | $30.25 – $78.67 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $59.41 | $39.97 – $86.49 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $43.67 | $30.25 – $57.79 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $44.69 | $29.31 – $61.50 | Undetermined |
| Parklands | Manitoba | $50.62 | $35.00 – $65.00 | Moderate |
| North | Manitoba | $50.62 | $35.00 – $65.00 | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $64.69 | $35.23 – $82.75 | Very good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $70.30 | $45.02 – $92.41 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $59.61 | $47.00 – $77.88 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $66.62 | $40.76 – $86.36 | Very good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $68.67 | $42.14 – $88.87 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $58.48 | $41.90 – $83.12 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $54.13 | $33.68 – $73.71 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $55.32 | $35.52 – $71.75 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $59.09 | $34.77 – $92.16 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $56.34 | $34.00 – $81.55 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $65.61 | $45.86 – $95.48 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $55.82 | $34.10 – $84.98 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $50.59 | $31.57 – $68.32 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $60.98 | $38.22 – $97.40 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $60.20 | $39.60 – $79.62 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $56.18 | $36.27 – $82.96 | Limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $59.24 | $38.50 – $93.87 | Moderate |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| 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).
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.