NOC 2021 · 95101 · TEER 5
Labourers in metal fabrication
Unit group 95101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Labourers in metal fabrication remove excess metal and unwanted materials from metal parts, castings and other metal products and perform other labouring activities. They are employed in structural steel, boiler and platework fabrication plants, heavy machinery manufacturing plants, sheet metal fabrication shops, shipbuilding and other metal products manufacturing companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aircraft bumper operator
- automatic machine polisher - metal products manufacturing
- battery lead burner helper
- bench grinder - metal products manufacturing
- bending machine helper - metal products manufacturing
- bit sharpener tender
- blacksmith helper
- boilermaker helper
- brake helper - metal products manufacturing
- brazing machine feeder
- buffing machine tender - metal products manufacturing
- burnisher - metalworking
- cartridge parts cleaner - explosives and ammunition manufacturing
- chipper - metal products manufacturing
- chipper-grinder
- chipper-grinder - metal products manufacturing
- chisel grinder - metal products manufacturing
- coil spring grinder - metal products manufacturing
- deburrer - metal products manufacturing
- die blanking press operator helper - metal products manufacturing
- dresser - metal products manufacturing
- drill grinder - metal products manufacturing
- drop hammer helper - metal fabrication
- fabrication shop helper - metal products
- finish grinder - metal products manufacturing
- finisher, foundry moulds
- firearms cleaner - metal products manufacturing
- fitter helper - metal products manufacturing
- flame cutter helper - metal products manufacturing
- forge helper
- forger helper
- foundry mould finisher
- galvanizer helper
- grinder - metal products manufacturing
- grinder and sharpener - metal products manufacturing
- grinder-chipper - metal products manufacturing
- grinder-deburrer
- grinder-deburrer - metal products manufacturing
- grinder-dresser - metal products manufacturing
- grinder-trimmer - metal products manufacturing
- hand buffer - metal products manufacturing
- hand filer - metal products manufacturing
- hand metal filer
- heat treater helper
- immersion metal cleaner - metal products manufacturing
- industrial sheet metal worker helper
- labourer - metal fabrication
- machine shop bench hand - metal products manufacturing
- machine shop helper - metal products manufacturing
- mechanical press operator helper - metal products manufacturing
- metal bluing cleaner - metal products manufacturing
- metal buffer - metal products manufacturing
- metal casting finisher
- metal cleaner
- metal cleaner - metal products manufacturing
- metal fabrication worker
- metal pickler operator helper
- metal polisher helper
- metal polishing-plating labourer
- metal structure fitter helper
- metal-fabricating shop helper
- metalworking machine helper
- mill roll grinder - metal products manufacturing
- mould cleaner - foundry
- mould dresser - foundry
- nib finisher - metal products manufacturing
- nut and bolt assembler - metal products manufacturing
- nut and bolt packer - metal products manufacturing
- pellet grinder - metal products manufacturing
- plate grinder - metal products manufacturing
- plate worker helper - metal products manufacturing
- plater helper
- plater helper - metal fabrication
- plating room helper
- power hammer helper - metal fabrication
- production helper - metal coating
- punch press helper - metal products manufacturing
- reel wrapper - wire products manufacturing
- rigger helper - shipbuilding
- sandblaster - metal products manufacturing
- sandblaster operator - metal products manufacturing
- sandblasting machine tender - metal products manufacturing
- shear helper - metal fabrication
- sheet metal polisher and buffer
- sherardizer helper
- shipbuilding fitter helper
- shipfitter helper
- shipwright helper
- shot grinder - metal products manufacturing
- shotblaster
- shotblaster - metal fabrication
- shotblasting machine operator - metal products manufacturing
- shotblasting machine tender - metal products manufacturing
- slide fastener polisher - metal products manufacturing
- soldering machine feeder
- structural metal fitter helper
- structural steel fitter helper
- tank calibrator - metal products manufacturing
- trimmer - metal products manufacturing
- tumbler tender - metal products manufacturing
- tumbling barrel tender - metal products manufacturing
- tumbling machine tender - metal products manufacturing
- upsetter helper - metal fabrication
- welder helper
- welder-fitter helper
- welder-fitter helper - manufacturing
- welding machine operator helper
- wheelabrator operator
- wheelabrator operator - metal products manufacturing
- wire finisher
- wire loom helper
- wire spooler - metal products manufacturing
- wire weaver helper
- wrapping machine operator - wire products manufacturing
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
$24.00 an hour
Low $18.50, high $32.50
Where it pays most
- Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean · Quebec$27.00
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$26.08
- Red Deer · Alberta$26.00
- Edmonton · Alberta$26.00
- Montérégie · Quebec$25.00
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 | $23.00 | $17.78 – $28.07 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $22.00 | $17.00 – $35.75 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $22.00 | $17.91 – $32.11 | Limited |
| Quebec | $24.38 | $19.00 – $31.90 | Limited |
| Ontario | $23.00 | $18.00 – $31.00 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $21.00 | $17.00 – $27.36 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $24.00 | $18.00 – $31.00 | Limited |
| Alberta | $25.00 | $19.00 – $35.00 | Very limited |
| British Columbia | $25.00 | $20.00 – $35.57 | 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 38 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $24.00 | $19.00 – $34.89 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $24.75 | $19.15 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $24.49 | $20.50 – $31.74 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $24.28 | $19.88 – $33.73 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $24.23 | $20.00 – $30.75 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $25.00 | $19.00 – $32.85 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $21.50 | $17.25 – $27.01 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $24.87 | $19.00 – $32.20 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $25.00 | $19.50 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $23.39 | $19.50 – $30.33 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $27.00 | $21.95 – $35.00 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $20.75 | $17.95 – $27.90 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $23.00 | $17.60 – $32.00 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $22.45 | $18.50 – $27.68 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $24.81 | $19.00 – $33.23 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $22.00 | $18.72 – $29.58 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $21.53 | $17.60 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $22.00 | $18.00 – $29.00 | Limited |
| South Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $20.00 | $17.00 – $25.00 | Limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $24.00 | $18.00 – $31.00 | Limited |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $24.00 | $18.00 – $31.00 | Limited |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $22.00 | $18.00 – $29.89 | Very limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $22.50 | $18.50 – $34.00 | Limited |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $26.00 | $20.00 – $33.95 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $26.00 | $20.00 – $37.00 | Very limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $25.00 | $20.00 – $30.00 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $24.29 | $19.00 – $35.00 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $26.08 | $21.00 – $34.00 | 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 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.