NOC 2021 · 82030 · TEER 2
Agricultural service contractors and farm supervisors
Unit group 82030 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Agricultural service contractors provide agricultural services such as livestock and poultry breeding, soil preparation, crop planting, crop spraying, cultivating or harvesting. Farm supervisors supervise the work of specialized livestock workers, farm machinery operators, livestock labourers, aquaculture labourers and harvesting labourers. They operate their own business or may be employed by farms and agricultural enterprises.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- agriculture foreman/woman
- animal farm foreman/woman
- animal husbandry foreman/woman
- apple orchard foreman/woman
- artificial insemination service contractor
- caponizing service contractor
- cattle feedlot foreman/woman
- cattle ranch foreman/woman
- contractor - agricultural service
- corral boss
- crop dusting service contractor
- crop harvesting service contractor
- custom combine contractor
- dairy farm foreman/woman
- dehorning service contractor
- egg grading station manager
- farm boss
- farm business foreman/woman
- farm foreman/woman
- farm irrigating system contractor
- farm operation foreman/woman
- farm operation supervisor
- farm produce grading service contractor
- farm produce packing service contractor
- farm supervisor
- farm workers supervisor
- feedlot foreman/woman
- fertilization service contractor - agriculture
- field and vegetable crop foreman/woman
- field crop foreman/woman
- field-grown crop foreman/woman
- fruit farm foreman/woman
- grain crop foreman/woman
- hatchery foreman/woman
- hog farm foreman/woman
- hog farm supervisor
- hog operation supervisor
- hop farm foreman/woman
- horse stable foreman/woman
- irrigation supervisor - agriculture
- livery stable foreman/woman
- livestock breeding service contractor
- livestock exchange contractor
- livestock foreman/woman
- livestock raising foreman/woman
- maple products foreman/woman - agriculture
- milking services contractor
- mink farm supervisor
- mink ranch supervisor
- orchard foreman/woman
- pasture-managing supervisor
- planting and cultivation contractor
- poultry farm foreman/woman
- poultry operation supervisor
- poultry-hatching services contractor
- ranch foreman/woman
- seed cleaning service contractor
- seeding contractor
- sheep shearing contractor
- soil preparation contractor
- soil-testing service contractor
- stable boss
- stockyard and herdsmen foreman/woman
- sugarbush operation foreman/woman
- tobacco farm foreman/woman
- turkey farm foreman/woman
- vegetable farm foreman/woman
- vineyard foreman
- vineyard foreman/woman
- weed control service contractor - agriculture
- wool shearing contractor
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
$24.04 an hour
Low $17.00, high $38.46
Where it pays most
- Southwest · Manitoba$28.47
- Calgary · Alberta$28.01
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$28.00
- South Central · Manitoba$27.98
- Yorkton--Melville · Saskatchewan$27.97
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 | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $25.00 | $16.50 – $35.58 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $22.50 | $19.00 – $32.31 | Good |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $23.19 | $17.50 – $31.00 | Good |
| Ontario | $23.00 | $17.60 – $33.65 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $26.44 | $16.00 – $46.15 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $28.85 | $18.46 – $60.10 | Good |
| Alberta | $28.00 | $20.00 – $39.49 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $26.00 | $17.85 – $35.00 | 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 39 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $22.74 | $17.38 – $31.00 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $23.00 | $17.60 – $33.65 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $23.00 | $17.60 – $33.65 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $23.00 | $17.60 – $33.65 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $23.00 | $17.60 – $33.65 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| South Central | Manitoba | $27.98 | $19.80 – $47.74 | Limited |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $28.47 | $20.64 – $49.69 | Limited |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Parklands | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $27.79 | $23.37 – $33.93 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $27.97 | $24.11 – $36.79 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $27.28 | $21.91 – $36.70 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $28.00 | $20.00 – $38.46 | Limited |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $28.01 | $23.67 – $34.36 | Undetermined |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $22.00 | $17.85 – $41.21 | Very limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | 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) · 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.