NOC 2021 · 82021 · TEER 2
Contractors and supervisors, oil and gas drilling and services
Unit group 82021 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Contractors and supervisors in oil and gas drilling and services supervise and coordinate the activities in drilling for oil or gas, operating service rigs, or providing oil and gas well services. They are employed by drilling and well service contracting companies and petroleum producing companies. Contractors may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- assistant offshore drilling rig superintendent
- assistant platform superintendent
- assistant toolpusher - offshore drilling rig
- consultant - gas well drilling
- consultant - oil and gas drilling
- directional drilling consultant - oil and gas
- fracturing supervisor
- multi-service operator - oil field services
- offshore drilling rig superintendent
- oil and gas contractor
- oil and gas drilling foreman/woman
- oil and natural gas well servicing foreman/woman
- oil field consultant
- oil field consultant supervisor
- oil field contractor
- oil well services field supervisor
- platform superintendent - oil and gas drilling
- production coordinator - energy
- rig manager
- rig manager - oil and gas drilling
- toolpusher
- toolpusher - oil and gas well drilling and offshore drilling
- well services crew supervisor - oil and gas drilling
- well services crew supervisor - oil field services
- well site consultant - oil and gas
- wireline field supervisor - oil field services
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
$50.00 an hour
Low $31.50, high $79.33
Where it pays most
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$60.00
- Northeast · British Columbia$59.86
- Calgary · Alberta$56.08
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$53.85
- Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River · Alberta$53.85
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 | $57.69 | $40.00 – $96.15 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $58.19 | $40.97 – $76.70 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $52.20 | $31.63 – $105.87 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Ontario | $41.29 | $27.24 – $70.73 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | $40.00 | $25.00 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $50.00 | $35.00 – $76.92 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $50.96 | $32.00 – $73.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $46.15 | $28.85 – $86.54 | 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 23 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 | $51.89 | $40.00 – $96.15 | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $45.00 | $31.45 – $59.90 | Undetermined |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $43.04 | $28.98 – $53.82 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $43.82 | $27.05 – $70.65 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $40.00 | $25.00 – $50.00 | Good |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $48.89 | $33.46 – $70.91 | Good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $46.61 | $32.85 – $62.88 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $51.23 | $36.54 – $81.76 | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $42.00 | $30.00 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | $42.00 | $30.00 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $53.61 | $34.57 – $73.97 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $52.40 | $31.35 – $76.50 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $56.08 | $30.05 – $67.31 | Limited |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $53.85 | $31.32 – $76.92 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $42.00 | $32.00 – $62.50 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $46.00 | $26.92 – $72.34 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $53.85 | $31.32 – $76.92 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $60.00 | $36.00 – $85.23 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $59.86 | $33.89 – $85.64 | 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.