NOC 2021 · 85101 · TEER 5
Harvesting labourers
Unit group 85101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Harvesting labourers and related workers assist other farm workers to plant, harvest, sort and pack crops. They participate in soil preparation, irrigation and crop planting, spraying and thinning. They are employed on fruit, vegetable and specialty crop farms.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- apple picker
- berry picker
- crop farm labourer - harvesting
- cucumber picker
- farm hand - harvesting
- farm labourer - harvesting
- farm worker - harvesting
- field and vegetable crop labourer
- field-grown crop farm labourer - harvesting
- fruit examiner - harvesting
- fruit farm labourer
- fruit farm worker
- fruit harvest worker
- fruit harvester
- fruit harvesting labourer
- fruit or vegetable picker
- fruit packer - farm
- fruit picker
- fruit sorter - farm
- fruit tree pruner
- fruit tree thinner
- general farm worker - harvesting
- grafter - orchard
- grain farm labourer
- grain farm worker
- harvest hand
- harvest worker
- harvesting labourer
- irrigation worker - agriculture
- irrigator - agriculture
- maple syrup maker
- maple tapping worker
- market garden worker
- mushroom farm worker
- mushroom picker
- oilseed crop worker
- orchard worker
- organic farm worker - harvesting
- small fruit picker
- soya bean crop worker
- sugar bush worker
- sugar-beet farm worker
- tobacco curer
- tobacco cutter - tobacco harvesting
- tobacco farm worker
- tobacco picker
- tobacco primer
- tobacco stripper - tobacco harvesting
- tomato picker
- vegetable farm worker
- vegetable packer - farm
- vegetable picker
- vegetable sorter - farm
- vegetable thinner
- vineyard pruner
- vineyard worker
- worm harvester
- worm packer
- worm picker
- worm picker-packer
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
$18.00 an hour
Low $16.00, high $25.00
Where it pays most
- Swift Current--Moose Jaw · Saskatchewan$27.00
- Yorkton--Melville · Saskatchewan$26.00
- Prince Albert · Saskatchewan$26.00
- Parklands · Manitoba$25.00
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$25.00
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 | $17.00 | $16.00 – $21.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $19.00 | $16.50 – $22.00 | Very good |
| Nova Scotia | $17.20 | $16.50 – $21.00 | Very good |
| New Brunswick | $18.28 | $15.75 – $23.00 | Very good |
| Quebec | $19.00 | $16.10 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $17.71 | $17.60 – $22.50 | Good |
| Manitoba | $22.00 | $17.00 – $29.78 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $26.00 | $20.00 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $20.00 | $16.00 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $17.85 | $17.85 – $20.00 | 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 61 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $18.13 | $16.00 – $23.00 | Undetermined |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $16.00 | $16.00 – $19.00 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $18.79 | $16.50 – $24.00 | Very good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $16.50 | $16.50 – $19.00 | Very good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $20.00 | $16.75 – $24.00 | Very good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $17.74 | $15.65 – $21.75 | Very good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $18.00 | $16.00 – $22.00 | Very good |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $21.00 | $17.00 – $25.00 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $19.00 | $16.10 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $20.00 | $16.10 – $27.00 | Good |
| Estrie | Quebec | $20.00 | $16.50 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $20.00 | $16.10 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $20.00 | $16.10 – $25.35 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $16.50 | $16.10 – $20.00 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $20.00 | $16.10 – $25.50 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $18.00 | $16.10 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $20.00 | $16.64 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $19.00 | $17.00 – $25.00 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $26.50 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $19.50 | $17.60 – $25.00 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $17.60 | $17.60 – $22.00 | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $18.00 | $17.60 – $21.63 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $18.00 | $17.60 – $24.00 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $17.60 | $17.60 – $20.00 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $18.00 | $17.60 – $22.56 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $17.60 | $17.60 – $22.00 | Good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southeast | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| South Central | Manitoba | $23.00 | $17.00 – $29.55 | Limited |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $22.00 | $18.50 – $28.00 | Limited |
| North Central | Manitoba | $22.00 | $17.50 – $28.50 | Limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Parklands | Manitoba | $25.00 | $18.00 – $32.00 | Limited |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $25.00 | $18.00 – $31.00 | Moderate |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $27.00 | $20.00 – $32.46 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $25.00 | $17.40 – $34.00 | Moderate |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $26.00 | $20.00 – $32.50 | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $26.00 | $20.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $21.14 | $15.00 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $17.40 | $15.65 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $17.42 | $16.00 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $20.00 | $17.85 – $25.00 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $17.85 | $17.85 – $18.00 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $18.63 | $17.85 – $23.00 | Very limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $20.00 | $17.85 – $25.00 | 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 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.