NOC 2021 · 84111 · TEER 4
Silviculture and forestry workers
Unit group 84111 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Silviculture and forestry workers perform a variety of duties related to reforestation and to the management, improvement and conservation of forest lands. They are employed by logging companies, contractors and government services.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- brush cutter - forestry
- clearing saw operator - forestry
- fire crewman/woman - forestry
- fire lookout
- fire suppression crewman/woman - forestry
- forest firefighter
- forestry conservation worker
- forestry crew worker
- forestry crewman/woman
- forestry worker
- forestry worker - logging
- lookout - forestry
- pieceworker - silviculture
- precommercial tree thinner
- scarification equipment operator
- scarification equipment operator - forestry
- scarifier operator - silviculture
- seed cone collector
- seed cone picker
- silviculture worker
- spacing saw operator
- spacing saw operator - forestry
- thinning saw operator
- thinning saw operator - forestry
- tree pruner - forestry
- tree spacer - forestry
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
$25.00 an hour
Low $19.75, high $34.00
Where it pays most
- Montréal · Quebec$30.00
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$30.00
- Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean · Quebec$28.25
- Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Quebec$28.00
- Kootenay · British Columbia$28.00
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 | $23.00 | $18.00 – $29.57 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $23.28 | $18.00 – $27.00 | Limited |
| New Brunswick | $24.30 | $20.00 – $30.74 | Limited |
| Quebec | $26.60 | $21.00 – $35.00 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $25.38 | $20.75 – $33.00 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $20.13 | $18.00 – $25.50 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $15.35 – $27.16 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $22.44 | $20.00 – $27.12 | Very limited |
| British Columbia | $27.00 | $21.00 – $38.50 | Very limited |
| Yukon Territory | $29.54 | $27.36 – $33.00 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | $32.50 | $27.50 – $38.00 | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 36 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 | Limited |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $23.28 | $18.00 – $26.00 | Limited |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $24.00 | $20.00 – $30.00 | Undetermined |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $25.00 | $20.00 – $32.50 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $28.00 | $21.82 – $35.00 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $25.00 | $20.38 – $32.35 | Very limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $26.69 | $22.00 – $32.97 | Undetermined |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $30.00 | $20.00 – $45.00 | Undetermined |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $27.08 | $21.90 – $34.42 | Very limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $25.00 | $20.00 – $32.00 | Very limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $27.00 | $21.95 – $32.00 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $25.00 | $20.00 – $32.00 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $28.25 | $21.00 – $35.00 | Undetermined |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $23.96 | $20.13 – $31.50 | Very limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $26.16 | $20.00 – $33.36 | Very limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $25.00 | $19.57 – $30.48 | Very limited |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $20.61 | $16.00 – $29.00 | Undetermined |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | $18.00 | $15.35 – $25.96 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $23.29 | $22.00 – $31.75 | Very limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $22.44 | $20.00 – $26.50 | Undetermined |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $22.00 | $20.00 – $26.20 | Undetermined |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $22.50 | $20.00 – $24.00 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $30.00 | $23.15 – $50.00 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $27.00 | $22.00 – $35.00 | Very limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $26.68 | $20.00 – $35.00 | Very limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $28.00 | $23.11 – $38.00 | Very limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $25.00 | $20.00 – $32.27 | Very limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | $26.68 | $23.00 – $29.00 | Very limited |
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.