NOC 2021 · 94152 · TEER 4
Binding and finishing machine operators
Unit group 94152 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Binding and finishing machine operators set up, operate or oversee the operation of machines, equipment or computerized units that bind and finish printed material. Workers who perform finishing operations in the paper, carton and packaging industries, as well as those who encode and stamp plastic cards, are included in this unit group. They are employed by binderies, commercial printing companies, newspapers, magazines, and other publishing companies, and establishments in both the public and private sectors that have in-house printing, binding and finishing departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- assistant binder
- assistant bookbinder
- binder - printing
- binder and finisher
- binder and finisher - printing
- binder assistant
- bindery machine operator - printing
- bindery operator
- bindery worker - printing
- binding and finishing machine operator
- blocking press operator - printing
- blocking press stamper - printing
- book finisher - printing
- book trimmer
- bookbinder - printing
- bookbinder assistant
- bookbinding machine operator
- book-cutting machine operator
- book-sewing machine operator - printing
- bronzer - printing
- bronzing machine tender - printing
- casing-in machine set-up operator - printing
- casing-in machine tender - printing
- Cerlox binder operator
- Cerlox binder operator - printing
- collating machine operator - printing
- continuous glue machine operator - printing
- covering machine operator - printing
- credit card die-cutter operator - printing
- cutter operator - printing
- cutting machine operator - printing
- cutting machine operator, books
- design and lettering stamper - printing
- die-cutting or die-numbering press operator - printing
- die-cutting platen press operator - printing
- embossing press operator - printing
- embossing press tender - printing
- embossing/encoding machine tender - printing
- finishing machine operator - printing
- foil stamper - printing
- foil-stamping platen press operator
- folder operator - printing
- folding machine operator - printing
- gathering machine operator - printing
- gathering machine set-up operator - printing
- gluing and folding machine operator - printing
- gold leaf stamper
- gold leaf stamper - printing
- guillotine cutter - printing
- guillotine operator - printing
- hand stitcher - binding
- headband and liner gluer - printing
- hologram-imprinting machine tender
- industrial binder - printing
- inserting machine operator - printing
- laminating machine operator
- laminating machine operator - printing
- machine binder - printing
- machine bookbinder
- machine bronzer - printing
- machine collator and gluer - printing
- machine cutter - printing
- machine folder - printing
- machine gatherer and gluer - printing
- machine side stitcher - printing
- machine stitcher - binding
- numbering machine operator - printing
- perfect-binder operator - printing
- perfect-binder set-up operator - printing
- perforating machine operator - printing
- perforating machine tender - printing
- perforator operator - printing
- perforator tender - printing
- platen press operator, foil stamping
- rounding and backing machine operator - printing
- saddle stitching machine operator - printing
- saddle stitching machine set-up operator - printing
- side stitching machine operator - printing
- spiral binding machine operator - printing
- spiral binding worker - printing
- stamping press operator - printing
- stitcher operator - printing
- stitcher set-up operator - printing
- stitcher-trimmer operator - printing
- stitching machine operator - printing
- stitching machine set-up operator - printing
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
$22.00 an hour
Low $18.26, high $31.48
Where it pays most
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$24.66
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$24.34
- Montérégie · Quebec$23.92
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$23.88
- Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$23.81
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 | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $21.87 | $17.95 – $27.21 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $23.47 | $18.04 – $27.68 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $23.17 | $19.35 – $30.49 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $31.01 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $20.50 | $18.26 – $24.00 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $22.93 | $18.13 – $28.09 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $22.50 | $19.48 – $27.09 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $23.21 | $19.55 – $29.38 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 22 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $23.81 | $20.01 – $28.97 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $24.34 | $19.27 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $23.92 | $19.22 – $30.24 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $22.51 | $18.52 – $29.31 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $23.41 | $18.08 – $28.42 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $23.68 | $18.88 – $31.73 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $22.22 | $18.07 – $27.80 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $21.06 | $16.66 – $23.98 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $31.01 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $31.01 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $22.26 | $19.00 – $27.47 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $22.86 | $19.26 – $29.56 | Undetermined |
| South Central | Manitoba | $20.50 | $18.26 – $24.00 | Good |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $20.50 | $18.26 – $24.00 | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $24.66 | $18.37 – $28.89 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $21.25 | $15.35 – $23.12 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $21.46 | $19.17 – $28.75 | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $21.49 | $19.24 – $27.65 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $21.60 | $18.22 – $26.46 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $23.88 | $20.74 – $30.11 | Moderate |
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.