NOC 2021 · 92101 · TEER 2
Water and waste treatment plant operators
Unit group 92101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Water treatment plant operators monitor and operate computerized control systems and related equipment in water filtration and treatment plants to regulate the treatment and distribution of water. Liquid waste plant operators monitor and operate computerized control systems and related equipment in wastewater, sewage treatment and liquid waste plants to regulate the treatment and disposal of sewage and wastes. They are employed by municipal governments and industrial facilities. This unit group also includes waste treatment plant operators in composting plants and other waste management facilities.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- environmental systems operator - water treatment
- filter plant operator - water treatment
- filtration plant controller - water treatment
- industrial waste treatment plant operator
- liquid waste process operator
- liquid waste processing plant operator
- liquid waste treatment plant operator
- pump station operator - water treatment
- pumphouse operator - water treatment
- sewage plant operator
- sewage-processing equipment tender
- waste treatment plant operator
- wastewater collection operator
- wastewater collection systems operator
- wastewater treatment operator
- wastewater treatment plant operator
- wastewater treatment plant worker
- water and wastewater technician
- water filtration plant operator
- water gate operator
- water plant pump operator
- water purification plant operator
- water treatment operator
- water treatment plant operator
- water treatment plant process technician
- water treatment systems operator
- water utility operator
- water, fuels and environment technician - Canadian Armed Forces
- waterworks pump house operator
- waterworks pumping station operator
- well-point pump operator
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
$36.06 an hour
Low $25.00, high $48.00
Where it pays most
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$44.00
- Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie · Ontario$39.96
- Northeast · British Columbia$39.32
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$38.40
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$38.27
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 | $32.78 | $25.40 – $41.08 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $30.29 | $23.39 – $37.43 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $30.85 | $23.39 – $37.77 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $30.29 | $23.39 – $37.43 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $38.11 | $27.00 – $52.00 | Good |
| Manitoba | $27.88 | $24.10 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $31.23 | $23.00 – $45.00 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $41.00 | $28.00 – $49.45 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $36.80 | $28.80 – $45.07 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | $34.17 | $22.83 – $54.89 | Moderate |
| Northwest Territories | $34.05 | $23.07 – $49.08 | Limited |
| Nunavut | $34.80 | $19.00 – $54.00 | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 62 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $32.50 | $25.85 – $40.16 | Undetermined |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $32.96 | $24.32 – $48.30 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $32.98 | $27.93 – $42.99 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $30.65 | $22.53 – $37.53 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $31.39 | $23.68 – $39.00 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $31.25 | $25.19 – $38.97 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $30.90 | $25.52 – $39.09 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $31.82 | $24.08 – $39.95 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $30.46 | $23.19 – $41.13 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $31.03 | $22.62 – $43.12 | Undetermined |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $30.29 | $23.38 – $40.45 | Undetermined |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $29.06 | $23.24 – $38.18 | Undetermined |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $29.08 | $24.25 – $41.41 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | $31.00 | $22.00 – $48.30 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $34.43 | $26.46 – $46.64 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $34.57 | $26.15 – $44.98 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $35.71 | $26.37 – $45.38 | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $35.90 | $30.00 – $43.27 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $39.96 | $38.11 – $69.00 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $36.00 | $25.48 – $38.81 | Very good |
| London | Ontario | $34.99 | $26.81 – $46.73 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $34.34 | $26.34 – $46.02 | Very good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $36.03 | $27.32 – $47.43 | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | $34.91 | $25.99 – $45.49 | Good |
| Northwest | Ontario | $33.42 | $25.30 – $44.31 | Moderate |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $27.88 | $24.10 – $40.00 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $27.88 | $24.04 – $40.00 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $29.15 | $20.21 – $41.01 | Moderate |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $28.58 | $21.47 – $42.24 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $30.85 | $22.96 – $45.15 | Moderate |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $28.32 | $20.26 – $42.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $31.74 | $19.96 – $43.49 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $36.77 | $28.37 – $50.78 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $37.63 | $29.51 – $53.17 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $37.98 | $27.83 – $52.87 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $38.27 | $34.50 – $48.00 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $36.92 | $27.14 – $53.87 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $38.27 | $27.46 – $52.98 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $38.27 | $34.50 – $48.00 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $44.00 | $30.09 – $68.75 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $36.99 | $28.50 – $49.50 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $37.49 | $28.73 – $49.28 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $38.40 | $28.80 – $45.07 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $37.34 | $27.17 – $48.81 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $38.04 | $30.14 – $49.44 | Undetermined |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $36.34 | $26.67 – $47.52 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $39.32 | $30.48 – $56.67 | 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.