NOC 2021 · 94150 · TEER 4
Plateless printing equipment operators
Unit group 94150 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Plateless printing equipment operators operate laser printers, computerized high speed colour copiers and other printing machines to print text, illustrations and designs on a wide variety of materials such as paper, plastic, glass, leather, and metal. They are employed in rapid printing services, newspaper and magazine publishing companies, commercial printing companies and in manufacturing and other establishments that have in-house printing facilities.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- balloon printer
- blueprint blocker
- blueprint developer
- blueprinting machine operator
- box printer - printing
- box, case and lining printer
- box-printing machine operator
- braille duplicator
- braille printer
- braille-impressing machine operator
- colour and large copier operator
- colour copier operator
- colour photocopier operator
- colour photocopy operator
- copy, staple and glue machine operator
- die stamper - printing
- electronic printing machine operator
- electronic sign maker operator
- embossing printer
- embossing-imprinting machine operator
- engraving machine operator - printing
- floorcovering printer
- glove printer
- high speed printer operator
- label printer
- laser printer operator
- machine advertising signs printer
- machine marker
- machine shotgun-shell printer
- machine sign printer
- machine sign writer
- offline-printing machine operator
- photocopying machine tender
- plastic printer
- pochoir silk-screen printing machine operator
- printer operator - printing
- printer-slotter operator
- printer-slotter tender
- printing machine operator - printing
- proofsheet approver - printing
- quick print machine operator
- ruling machine operator - printing
- screen print operator
- screen printing machine operator - printing
- shotgun-shell-printing machine tender
- silk-screen printing machine operator
- silk-screen tender - printing
- silk-screening machine operator
- steel die printer
- stencil silk-screen printing machine operator
- tabulating cards printer
- tag-printing machine tender
- tape rule printer
- transfer machine tender - printing
- transfer press operator
- wallpaper printer
- wallpaper sample sheet cutter-marker
- wallpaper sample sheet marker
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
$21.00 an hour
Low $16.55, high $28.75
Where it pays most
- Mauricie · Quebec$25.89
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$25.32
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$25.25
- Avalon Peninsula · Newfoundland and Labrador$25.16
- Edmonton · Alberta$24.95
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 | $24.62 | $21.54 – $25.96 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $19.61 | $16.94 – $25.21 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $22.38 | $19.05 – $27.38 | Limited |
| Ontario | $21.75 | $17.60 – $29.00 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $20.00 | $19.00 – $22.80 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $24.60 | $19.80 – $35.79 | Very limited |
| British Columbia | $25.36 | $19.78 – $31.42 | Very 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $25.16 | $21.63 – $29.47 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $20.46 | $18.75 – $24.55 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $21.97 | $19.45 – $27.01 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $25.32 | $21.31 – $34.04 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $23.85 | $19.70 – $28.73 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $23.91 | $19.74 – $31.00 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $23.33 | $18.60 – $28.84 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $22.70 | $18.16 – $28.61 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $24.60 | $20.60 – $31.81 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $23.66 | $19.28 – $30.18 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $21.78 | $18.19 – $25.06 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $25.89 | $21.96 – $31.82 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $24.53 | $18.66 – $32.42 | Limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $22.66 | $18.12 – $29.41 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $29.00 | Very limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $23.93 | $18.38 – $29.17 | Very limited |
| London | Ontario | $23.24 | $18.72 – $29.99 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $24.17 | $20.16 – $31.34 | Very limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $21.38 | $17.87 – $28.48 | Very limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $23.85 | $18.70 – $29.54 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $24.95 | $20.05 – $29.97 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $24.52 | $21.24 – $31.27 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $25.25 | $21.34 – $26.27 | Very limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $23.57 | $20.77 – $28.15 | 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.