NOC 2021 · 94142 · TEER 4
Fish and seafood plant workers
Unit group 94142 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Labourers in fish and seafood processing perform clean-up, packaging, material handling and other elemental activities related to fish and seafood processing. They are employed in fish and seafood processing and packaging plants.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- basket filter tender - fish and seafood processing
- can filler - fish and seafood processing
- can-filling machine operator - fish processing
- centrifuge machine tender - fish processing
- clam shucker - fish and seafood processing
- clam steamer - fish and seafood processing
- clam-shucking machine tender - fish and seafood processing
- crab butcher - fish and seafood processing
- crab steamer - fish and seafood processing
- fillet chopper - fish processing
- filleting machine operator - fish processing
- filleting machine setter - fish processing
- filling machine operator - fish and seafood products
- fish boner - fish processing
- fish broiler - fish processing
- fish by-products processor
- fish cake former - fish processing
- fish cake maker
- fish cake maker - fish processing
- fish cake processor - fish processing
- fish canning machine operator - fish processing
- fish cleaner and cutter - fish processing
- fish cook - fish processing
- fish curer - fish processing
- fish cutter - fish processing
- fish cutting machine operator - fish processing
- fish cutting machine setter - fish processing
- fish dresser - fish processing
- fish dryer and grinder tender - fish processing
- fish dryer tender - fish processing
- fish egg processor - fish processing
- fish flaker - fish processing
- fish fryer - fish processing
- fish header - fish processing
- fish offal processor - fish processing
- fish oil extractor tender - fish processing
- fish paste grinder - fish processing
- fish plant machine operator - fish processing
- fish plant worker
- fish presser operator - fish processing
- fish processor
- fish products maker - fish processing
- fish skinner operator - fish processing
- fish smoke chamber tender - fish processing
- fish smoker - fish processing
- fish splitter - fish processing
- fish stick machine tender - fish processing
- fish trimmer - fish processing
- fish-cleaning machine tender - fish processing
- fish-processing machine operator
- fish-processing machine tender
- fish-processing plant worker
- fish-skinning machine operator - fish processing
- frozen fish cutter - fish processing
- hand shellfish processor - fish and seafood processing
- lobster processor - fish processing
- machine operator - fish processing
- oyster canner - fish processing
- oyster packer - fish processing
- oyster shucker - fish processing
- oyster washer tender - fish processing
- scallop shucker - fish and seafood processing
- seafood preparer - fish and seafood processing
- shellfish processor
- shellfish separator tender - fish and seafood processing
- shellfish shucker
- shellfish shucker - fish and seafood processing
- shellfish-processing machine tender
- shrimp peeler - fish and seafood processing
- shrimp peeler tender - fish and seafood processing
- shrimp processor - fish and seafood processing
- shucker - fish and seafood processing
- skinner operator - fish processing
- skinning machine setter - fish processing
- trimmer - fish processing
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
$17.25 an hour
Low $15.50, high $20.00
Where it pays most
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$21.50
- Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Quebec$19.61
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$18.70
- Saint John--St. Stephen · New Brunswick$18.17
- Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay · Newfoundland and Labrador$18.00
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 | $17.60 | $16.00 – $18.93 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $16.50 | $16.50 – $16.75 | Very good |
| Nova Scotia | $16.80 | $16.50 – $20.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $16.97 | $15.65 – $19.25 | Good |
| Quebec | $19.50 | $17.00 – $22.00 | Limited |
| Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $29.00 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | $18.00 | $16.50 – $22.12 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $19.70 | $17.85 – $25.00 | 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 18 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 | $16.60 | $16.00 – $19.00 | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.60 | $16.00 – $18.90 | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.65 | $16.89 – $18.41 | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $18.00 | $16.77 – $19.15 | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $16.80 | $16.50 – $18.00 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $16.50 | $16.50 – $18.20 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $17.50 | $16.50 – $21.00 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $17.88 | $16.25 – $20.00 | Good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $16.47 | $15.65 – $18.52 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $18.17 | $16.50 – $20.00 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $19.61 | $18.00 – $22.12 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $21.50 | $18.00 – $26.87 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $18.70 | $17.85 – $22.00 | 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.