NOC 2021 · 95102 · TEER 5
Labourers in chemical products processing and utilities
Unit group 95102 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Labourers in chemical products processing and utilities carry out a variety of material handling, cleaning and routine general labouring activities. They are employed by petroleum and natural gas processing, pipeline and petrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, and by electrical, water and waste treatment utilities and services.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- acetylene cylinder preparer
- batch dryer tender helper
- bath mix solvent recoverer
- boiler operator helper
- boiler water tester
- boilerhouse helper
- bullet lubricant compounder
- chemical plant labourer
- coating machine feeder - chemical processing
- compressed gas plant worker
- crutcher operator helper
- distillation equipment helper
- distillation equipment helper - chemical processing
- distiller helper - chemical processing
- dryer tender helper - chemical processing
- electrode cleaner
- electrolytic cell cleaner
- equipment cleaner - chemical processing
- film spooler
- filter cleaner - chemical processing
- filtration helper - chemical processing
- flue cleaner - utilities
- gas fitter helper - utilities
- gas utility labourer
- gasket coater
- gasoline catalyst operator helper
- helper - chemical processing
- integrator operator
- labourer - chemical processing
- labourer - gas utility
- landfill scale operator
- landfill weigh scale attendant
- loader - chemical processing
- mill charger - chemical processing
- oven loader - chemical processing
- paint plant labourer
- paint pourer
- petroleum process operator helper
- petroleum refinery labourer
- pigment presser
- powerhouse helper
- rack loader
- refrigeration plant operator helper
- retort unloader
- ring furnace operator helper
- sample preparer - chemical processing
- sampler - chemical processing
- saturating machine feeder - chemical processing
- shutdown labourer - chemical processing
- slug-press feeder
- stationary engineer helper
- still cleaner - chemical processing
- stove-bottom worker
- stove-carriage worker
- substation operator helper
- sulphuric acid plant operator helper
- temperature regulator
- transformer stockroom attendant
- treater helper - chemical processing
- varnish maker helper
- water intake tender
- water intake tender - utilities
- waterworks labourer
- wax moulder
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
$25.00 an hour
Low $18.25, high $38.53
Where it pays most
- Windsor--Sarnia · Ontario$33.73
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$29.75
- Toronto · Ontario$27.90
- Ottawa · Ontario$27.52
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$27.47
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 | $24.00 | $17.25 – $31.82 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $25.00 | $16.50 – $38.50 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $21.00 | $16.00 – $29.00 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Limited |
| Ontario | $26.50 | $18.50 – $41.50 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $20.00 | $16.25 – $26.95 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | $24.75 | $17.50 – $34.64 | Limited |
| Alberta | $27.00 | $20.00 – $37.00 | Very limited |
| British Columbia | $29.06 | $20.00 – $39.41 | 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 28 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $25.00 | $16.50 – $39.89 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $25.00 | $19.50 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $23.44 | $18.28 – $37.68 | Very limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $27.52 | $19.00 – $40.23 | Very limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $26.50 | $18.50 – $41.50 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $27.90 | $18.00 – $43.36 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $27.26 | $18.83 – $43.07 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $24.76 | $18.00 – $40.23 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $26.50 | $18.50 – $41.50 | Very limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $33.73 | $21.00 – $40.23 | Very limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $23.75 | $19.72 – $35.50 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $20.00 | $16.25 – $26.95 | Very limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $25.00 | $19.50 – $36.64 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $26.64 | $20.29 – $37.93 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $27.47 | $20.39 – $38.86 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $29.75 | $19.50 – $36.95 | 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.