NOC 2021 · 94213 · TEER 4
Industrial painters, coaters and metal finishing process operators
Unit group 94213 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Industrial painters and coaters operate and tend machines or use brushes and spray equipment to apply paint, enamel, lacquer or other non-metallic protective and decorative coatings to surfaces of various products. Metal finishing process operators operate machines or equipment to deposit metallized substances on workpieces and surfaces to provide decorative, protective and restorative coatings. These workers are employed by manufacturing companies and custom refinishing, coating and plating shops.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- airbrush painter
- aircraft painter
- anodizer
- assembly line painter
- assembly painter
- automatic paint-sprayer operator
- automobile assembly line painter
- automobile assembly painter
- automobile dipper-painter
- automobile painter - motor vehicle manufacturing
- aviation painter
- bathtub refinisher
- bathtub varnisher
- bench lacquer sprayer
- bench spray painter
- block sander and glazier
- boiler painter
- bronze plater
- brush stainer - production
- cadmium galvanizer
- car painter - manufacturing
- ceramic and enamel refinisher
- ceramic enameler
- ceramic painter
- ceramic spray painter
- ceramic sprayer
- chromium plater
- coating equipment operator
- coating equipment operator - metal plating
- coating machine operator - industrial painting and coating
- coating machine tender - product manufacturing
- coating oven tender - manufacturing
- coating tank dipper
- coil spring dipper
- continuous galvanizing line operator
- copper coater - metal plating
- copper plater
- corrosion resistant metal sprayer
- crester
- cylinder painter - industrial
- cylinder plater-grinder - metal processing
- decal applier
- dip tank attendant
- dipper and coater - metal plating
- dipper-baker
- dipping tank operator
- dipping tank tender
- drum painter
- electrical equipment enameller
- electroformer
- electrogalvanizer
- electrogalvanizing machine operator
- electroless plater
- electrolytic tank tender
- electroplasty equipment operator
- electroplater
- electroplater operator
- electrostatic machine painter
- electrostatic painter
- electrostatic painting line tender
- electrostatic painting machine operator
- electrostatic painting machine set-up operator
- Elpo tank attendant
- enamel baker - manufacturing
- enamel dipper
- enamel painter
- enameller
- enameller - industrial painting and coating
- enameller - ship and boat building
- enamelling machine tender
- engine and generator support painter
- filament coater
- final colour production painter
- finished enamel sprayman/woman
- finished vehicle paint repairman/woman
- finishing roller industrial painter
- firearm burnisher - metal plating
- firearm finisher - metal plating
- galvanizer
- galvanizing machine operator
- hand touch-up painter - production
- hardboard spray-coating machine tender
- hot-dip coater - metal plating
- hot-dip galvanizer - metal plating
- industrial coater
- industrial paint baker
- industrial paint dipper
- industrial paint finisher
- industrial paint mixer
- industrial paint sprayer operator
- industrial painter
- industrial painters lead hand
- industrial products painter
- industrial spray painter
- lacquer-sprayer
- large surface spray painter
- lead coater
- leather goods spray painter
- leather goods sprayer
- locomotive painter
- machine enameller
- machine operator - plating and metal spraying
- manufacturing painter
- metal bluer
- metal coater
- metal coater operator
- metal coating-equipment operator
- metal dipper
- metal electroplater
- metal electroplating inspector
- metal plater-polisher
- metal plating-equipment operator
- metal product spray painter
- metal spray operator
- metal sprayer
- metal-dipping equipment operator
- metal-leaf gilder
- metallizer
- motor and generator subassemblies painter
- motor vehicle painter - motor vehicle manufacturing
- motor vehicle rustproofer
- nickel plater
- oven tender - painting and coating
- paint and mix production and control operator
- paint and varnish dipper operator
- paint baking oven tender
- paint control operator
- paint dipper - flow coating
- paint machine operator
- paint production operator
- paint room attendant
- paint spray inspector
- paint systems attendant
- painting machine attendant
- painting machine operator
- painting machine tender
- paint-sprayer operator
- particleboard spraying machine tender
- pencil-coating machine tender
- pencil-tip-banding machine tender
- pipe coater-painter
- pipe spray painter
- plating tank operator
- powder coater
- prep line attendant - bulk galvanizing
- primer sprayer
- print applier - production
- product lacquer-sprayer
- product painter
- product spray painter
- product stainer
- product surface preparer and prefinisher
- production brush painter
- production coating machine operator
- production electroplater
- production painter
- production painter-finisher
- production touch-up painter
- railway car letterer
- railway car painter and letterer
- railway car stenciller
- railway car varnisher
- robotic paint sprayer attendant
- robotic spray paint system attendant
- rough benchwork spray painter
- rough spray painter - manufacturing
- rustproof coater - motor vehicle manufacturing
- rustproof sprayer - motor vehicle manufacturing
- shellacker
- sherardizer
- shipyard painter
- sign letterer
- sign panel primer
- sign spray painter
- silver plater
- silver spray operator
- smoking-pipe stainer
- spray paint machine operator
- spray paint machine tender
- spray paint operator
- spray painter
- spray painter - motor vehicle manufacturing
- spray painter - production
- spray stainer - production
- stove refinisher
- stove varnisher
- temperer - plating and metal spraying
- thermospray operator
- tin can dipping enameller
- tin plater
- tinned sheet coating machine operator
- tinware dipper and enameller
- tinware dipping enameller
- tumbling barrel painter
- tumbling barrel tender
- undercoater - motor vehicle manufacturing
- vacuum-metallizer tender
- vehicle cleaner-coater
- wire coater
- wire tinner
- wire-coating equipment operator
- wire-paint-coating machine tender
- zinc galvanizer
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
$24.61 an hour
Low $18.00, high $36.00
Where it pays most
- Avalon Peninsula · Newfoundland and Labrador$35.02
- Halifax · Nova Scotia$34.71
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$28.84
- Prince Albert · Saskatchewan$28.34
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$28.12
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 | $36.01 | $20.00 – $47.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $33.92 | $17.55 – $40.16 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $23.00 | $16.50 – $34.00 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $24.50 | $17.00 – $32.00 | Limited |
| Ontario | $23.57 | $18.00 – $33.00 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $24.00 | $16.50 – $31.60 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $27.20 | $20.73 – $37.06 | Limited |
| Alberta | $26.00 | $22.00 – $35.00 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $30.00 | $20.50 – $47.00 | 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 50 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 | $35.02 | $19.25 – $46.68 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $34.71 | $18.00 – $39.42 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $26.62 | $20.75 – $31.06 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $25.20 | $20.80 – $32.35 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $25.00 | $19.50 – $32.00 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $25.04 | $19.99 – $29.31 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $24.65 | $20.48 – $30.37 | Very limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $26.04 | $20.49 – $32.98 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $24.19 | $20.19 – $31.41 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $26.47 | $20.40 – $34.50 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $26.01 | $20.60 – $33.27 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $25.00 | $20.00 – $34.36 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $25.28 | $22.62 – $30.53 | Undetermined |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $25.41 | $22.75 – $31.82 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $23.00 | $19.45 – $28.00 | Very limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $25.56 | $20.90 – $30.84 | Very limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $22.95 | $19.34 – $30.46 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $25.01 | $19.86 – $32.54 | Very limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $24.94 | $19.29 – $32.79 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $24.00 | $17.60 – $27.15 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $24.00 | $18.00 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $23.50 | $19.23 – $33.65 | Very limited |
| London | Ontario | $26.78 | $20.17 – $36.19 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $23.82 | $19.30 – $33.63 | Very limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $24.27 | $20.15 – $32.55 | Very limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $26.29 | $19.92 – $38.02 | Undetermined |
| Northwest | Ontario | $27.61 | $23.30 – $38.23 | Undetermined |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $21.91 | $19.28 – $30.49 | Moderate |
| South Central | Manitoba | $24.15 | $19.24 – $28.46 | Limited |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $24.00 | $17.80 – $31.60 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $23.31 | $17.80 – $29.56 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $28.12 | $22.92 – $38.05 | Limited |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $26.50 | $21.73 – $33.20 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $28.05 | $21.93 – $39.16 | Very limited |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $27.04 | $22.86 – $34.25 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $28.34 | $22.64 – $39.39 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $26.18 | $21.99 – $36.59 | Undetermined |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $26.00 | $22.00 – $35.00 | Limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $26.00 | $22.00 – $35.00 | Limited |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $26.00 | $22.00 – $35.00 | Very limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $26.00 | $22.00 – $35.00 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $28.84 | $20.00 – $47.57 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $26.68 | $20.38 – $42.09 | 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 Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (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.