NOC 2021 · 85110 · TEER 5
Mine labourers
Unit group 85110 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Mine labourers carry out a variety of general labouring duties to assist in the extraction of coal, minerals and ore, and in other services in support of underground mining. They are employed by coal, metal and non-metallic mineral mines.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- chute puller
- coal sampler
- core cutter
- core splitter
- grizzly worker - underground mining
- labourer - mining exploration
- limestone spreader - underground mining
- mine check weigher
- mine helper
- mine helper - underground mining
- mine labourer
- miner helper - underground mining
- pipeworker helper - underground mining
- pit scaler - underground mining
- pit-scaler helper
- powder carrier - underground mining
- rock duster - underground mining
- shoveller - underground mining
- slate picker
- stone duster - underground mining
- timber and steel prop salvager
- timber and steel prop setter helper
- timbering and steel prop setting helper
- timberman/woman helper - underground mining
- underground helper - mining
- underground labourer - mining
- underground mine labourer
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
$32.50 an hour
Low $21.00, high $48.65
Where it pays most
- Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$40.73
- Yorkton--Melville · Saskatchewan$40.45
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$38.45
- Kootenay · British Columbia$37.90
- West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador · Newfoundland and Labrador$36.38
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 | $32.00 | $24.00 – $51.00 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $29.34 | $19.28 – $42.51 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $31.91 | $17.14 – $56.81 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $30.10 | $22.46 – $47.94 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $32.00 | $20.00 – $45.00 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $30.00 | $16.85 – $39.00 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | $42.00 | $28.00 – $52.88 | Good |
| Alberta | $33.26 | $23.05 – $50.47 | Very limited |
| British Columbia | $36.15 | $22.48 – $50.14 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | $34.30 | $21.92 – $37.20 | Very limited |
| Nunavut | $34.67 | $19.00 – $63.94 | Limited |
By economic region
The 25 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $35.22 | $21.66 – $51.51 | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $36.38 | $23.15 – $51.86 | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $31.48 | $20.62 – $41.23 | Undetermined |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $34.15 | $25.08 – $51.35 | Very limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $28.84 | $20.03 – $41.50 | Very limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $27.74 | $20.19 – $33.80 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $32.00 | $24.00 – $40.00 | Very limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $30.13 | $19.25 – $45.87 | Very limited |
| Parklands | Manitoba | $34.62 | $16.85 – $39.50 | Very limited |
| North | Manitoba | $34.62 | $16.85 – $39.50 | Very limited |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $40.73 | $24.78 – $57.43 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $40.45 | $24.90 – $59.48 | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $35.82 | $24.05 – $51.85 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $29.16 | $21.44 – $41.35 | Very limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $36.32 | $21.76 – $51.24 | Undetermined |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $38.45 | $26.04 – $56.36 | Undetermined |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $37.90 | $26.50 – $51.80 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $35.87 | $22.54 – $46.42 | Undetermined |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $33.68 | $20.88 – $48.25 | 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.