NOC 2021 · 84120 · TEER 4
Specialized livestock workers and farm machinery operators
Unit group 84120 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Specialized livestock workers carry out feeding, health and breeding programs on dairy, beef, sheep, poultry, swine and other livestock farms. Farm machinery operators operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment. They are employed on crop, livestock, fruit, vegetable and specialty farms.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- apiary technician
- artificial inseminator
- baler - agriculture
- baling machine operator - farm
- beef cattle herdsperson
- beekeeping technician
- binder operator - agriculture
- cattle herdsperson
- chick sexer
- combine operator
- cowhand
- cropsprayer machine operator
- cultivator operator
- custom combine operator
- custom harvest crewperson
- custom harvester
- dairy herdsperson
- dressage and stunt horse trainer
- farm equipment operator
- farm machinery custom operator
- farm machinery operator
- farrowing technician
- grain custom harvester
- harvester machine operator
- hay baler operator - agriculture
- herd attendant
- herd superintendent
- herder - stockyards
- herdsman/woman
- herdsperson
- hop-picking machine operator
- horse breaker
- horse trainer
- livestock attendant
- livestock driver
- livestock yard attendant
- livestock yardman/woman
- pasture rider
- penrider
- pork production technician
- pork production technician apprentice
- racehorse exerciser
- racehorse trainer
- sheep handler
- sheep herdsperson
- shepherd
- stock attendant
- swine herdsperson
- swine technician
- threshing machine operator
- tobacco harvesting machine operator
- tractor operator - farm
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 $15.00, high $32.00
Where it pays most
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$27.50
- Swift Current--Moose Jaw · Saskatchewan$27.50
- Prince Albert · Saskatchewan$27.50
- Northern · Saskatchewan$27.50
- Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$27.00
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 | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $20.18 | $16.50 – $28.75 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $19.00 | $16.50 – $31.95 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $20.00 | $15.65 – $31.41 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $21.15 | $17.60 – $32.50 | Good |
| Manitoba | $21.54 | $16.00 – $33.00 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $27.50 | $17.00 – $40.00 | Good |
| Alberta | $25.00 | $15.00 – $32.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $20.00 | $17.85 – $32.00 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 63 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 | $22.19 | $19.23 – $29.86 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $18.00 | $16.50 – $22.00 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $19.23 | $16.50 – $42.00 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $22.29 | $17.31 – $32.10 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $20.26 | $16.82 – $30.02 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $19.30 | $15.65 – $31.08 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $20.03 | $16.10 – $25.60 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $27.31 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $21.00 | $16.10 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $20.50 | $16.39 – $26.88 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $21.06 | $16.47 – $29.23 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $20.98 | $16.92 – $30.05 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $41.79 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $20.76 | $17.60 – $31.04 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $20.76 | $17.60 – $28.89 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $28.85 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $21.00 | $17.60 – $50.48 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $20.51 | $17.60 – $32.50 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $23.08 | $17.60 – $33.00 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $22.83 | $17.60 – $34.12 | Good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $20.51 | $17.60 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | $22.61 | $17.60 – $32.84 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $23.50 | $17.60 – $36.95 | Undetermined |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $21.00 | $16.00 – $30.00 | Limited |
| South Central | Manitoba | $22.92 | $17.05 – $30.17 | Limited |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $21.54 | $16.00 – $33.00 | Limited |
| North Central | Manitoba | $25.00 | $17.70 – $35.00 | Limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $22.12 | $16.00 – $60.39 | Limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $23.00 | $16.00 – $33.00 | Limited |
| Parklands | Manitoba | $21.71 | $16.00 – $31.13 | Limited |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $27.50 | $17.00 – $40.00 | Good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $27.50 | $17.00 – $40.00 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $27.00 | $18.00 – $37.50 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $27.00 | $17.00 – $40.38 | Moderate |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $27.50 | $17.31 – $41.35 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | $27.50 | $17.31 – $41.35 | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $24.39 | $18.17 – $39.48 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $24.00 | $15.00 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $23.16 | $16.87 – $32.78 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $25.00 | $18.00 – $51.28 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $22.85 | $16.82 – $36.27 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $25.00 | $15.00 – $32.00 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $25.00 | $18.00 – $51.28 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $24.75 | $18.27 – $35.27 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $22.51 | $17.85 – $33.76 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $22.56 | $17.85 – $32.53 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $21.26 | $17.85 – $33.06 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $22.45 | $17.85 – $34.22 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $25.78 | $17.85 – $39.57 | Undetermined |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $24.96 | $17.85 – $40.35 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $24.63 | $18.84 – $35.85 | 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 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.