NOC 2021 · 95106 · TEER 5
Labourers in food and beverage processing
Unit group 95106 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Labourers in food and beverage processing perform material handling, clean-up, packaging and other elemental activities related to food and beverage processing. They are employed in fruit and vegetable processing plants, dairies, flour mills, bakeries, sugar refineries, meat plants, breweries and other food and beverage processing and packaging plants.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- animal feed sack filler
- bagger - food and beverage processing
- baker helper
- bakery labourer
- bakery products bander
- bakery products divider - food and beverage processing
- bakery products packager
- bakery products wrapper
- banding machine tender - tobacco products
- barrel cleaner - food and beverage processing
- barrel filler - food and beverage processing
- beef marker - food and beverage processing
- beer sampler - food and beverage processing
- beet washer
- beet washer helper
- bin cleaner - food and beverage processing
- biscuit packer
- blender and packer - food and beverage processing
- blender and wrapper - food and beverage processing
- bolter helper - food and beverage processing
- bottle caser - food and beverage processing
- bottle checker - food and beverage processing
- bottle washer
- bottle washer - food and beverage processing
- bottler
- bottle-washing machine tender - food and beverage processing
- bottling line worker
- box stitcher - food and beverage processing
- bread pan greaser - food and beverage processing
- brewery labourer
- butcher helper - meat processing
- butter packer
- butter sampler
- butter wrapper
- cake wrapper
- candy maker helper
- candy packer
- candy wrapper
- cannabis processing labourer
- cannery packer
- cannery worker - food and beverage processing
- carcass washer - food and beverage processing
- carcass weigher - food and beverage processing
- carton bander
- carton package stapler
- carton-packaging machine tender - food and beverage processing
- case stacker - food and beverage processing
- caser - tobacco processing
- casing salter - food and beverage processing
- casing shirrer - food and beverage processing
- casing stripper - food and beverage processing
- cellophaner - tobacco products
- centrifuge tender - food and beverage processing
- centrifuge tender - meat packing plant
- char filter helper - food and beverage processing
- char kiln helper - food and beverage processing
- cheese cutter
- cheese factory worker
- cheese maker helper
- chewing gum batch mixer
- chewing gum production attendant
- chicle-grinder feeder - food and beverage processing
- chilling worker - food and beverage processing
- chocolate processing helper
- cigar bander
- cigar brander
- cigar wrapper
- cigarette packer
- cigar-wrapping machine tender
- cocoa bean cleaner
- cocoa bean press-mill helper
- cocoa bean roaster helper
- cocoa powder mixer
- coffee-blending machine feeder
- confection labourer - food and beverage processing
- corn starch neutralizer
- corn syrup processing labourer
- cream sampler - food and beverage processing
- custom feed miller helper
- dairy helper - food and beverage processing
- dairy sampler - food and beverage processing
- dough feeder - food and beverage processing
- dough roller
- dough weigher
- dry curer - food and beverage processing
- dumping machine tender - food and beverage processing
- edible oil processing labourer
- edible oil refiner helper
- egg breaker - food and beverage processing
- filler - food and beverage processing
- film-coating machine tender - tobacco products
- flour mixer helper
- flumer helper - food and beverage processing
- food processing labourer
- food product sampler
- food-cooling pan tender
- food-processing equipment cleaner
- freezer worker - food and beverage processing
- freezing worker - food and beverage processing
- frozen food packer
- frozen meat cutter helper
- fruit and vegetable cleaner - food and beverage processing
- fruit peeler - food and beverage processing
- fruit preparer - food and beverage processing
- fruit splitter
- gambreler - food and beverage processing
- gelatin stock cooker attendant
- glucose transferrer - food and beverage processing
- gluten settler - food and beverage processing
- grain cleaner helper
- hand candy dipper - food and beverage processing
- hand chocolate packer
- hogshead filler - tobacco products
- hoof remover - food and beverage processing
- ice cream worker - food and beverage processing
- icing dipper - food and beverage processing
- industrial butcher helper
- juice blender
- label coder - food and beverage processing
- labourer - food and beverage processing
- labourers - food and beverage processing
- lard bleacher - food and beverage processing
- linking machine tender - food and beverage processing
- liquid packer
- liquor gallery tender helper - food and beverage processing
- machine cigar wrapper
- machine container washer - food and beverage processing
- machine tobacco packer
- meat dryer
- meat loaf trimmer
- meat mould sealer
- meat mould stripper
- meat packager
- meat packager - food and beverage processing
- meat packer - food and beverage processing
- meat press tender
- meat vacuum wrapper
- meat washer
- meat wrapper
- meat-packing plant labourer
- meat-rolling machine tender
- milk powder grinder
- milk sampler
- neck skewerer - food and beverage processing
- noodle paste mixer tender
- nut sorter - food and beverage processing
- nut-chopping machine feeder
- pastry cook helper
- pastry wrapper
- pellet mill worker - food and beverage processing
- popcorn maker - food and beverage processing
- potato chip sorter
- potato-peeling machine tender
- poultry cooler worker - food and beverage processing
- poultry packager
- production helper
- production helper - food and beverage processing
- production labourer - food processing
- salt packer
- sampler - food and beverage processing
- sausage casing curer
- sausage linker - food and beverage processing
- sausage tier - food and beverage processing
- sausage wrapper - food and beverage processing
- seasoning mixer - food and beverage processing
- shrouder - food and beverage processing
- singeing machine tender
- skinning machine feeder - food and beverage processing
- smoked meat preparer - food and beverage processing
- snuff-packing machine tender
- soft drink mixer
- sorting machine feeder - food and beverage processing
- starch centrifuge tender
- starch factory labourer - food and beverage processing
- stunner and shackler - meat packing
- sugar boiler helper
- sugar grinder
- syrup-processing plant labourer
- tank attendant - food and beverage processing
- tare assessor - food and beverage processing
- tea blender
- ticket checker - tobacco processing
- tobacco baler
- tobacco hogshead liner
- tobacco packer
- tobacco processing labourer
- tobacco weigher
- tobacco-packing machine tender
- tub filler - food and beverage processing
- tumbler tender - food and beverage processing
- vinegar maker helper
- washing and waxing machine tender - food and beverage processing
- yeast processing labourer
- yeast sampler - food and beverage processing
- yeast-processing plant labourer
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
$20.00 an hour
Low $16.50, high $25.67
Where it pays most
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$24.05
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$23.50
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$23.30
- Centre-du-Québec · Quebec$23.00
- Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$23.00
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 | $20.39 | $16.00 – $22.88 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $20.00 | $16.50 – $23.00 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $20.00 | $16.50 – $24.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $19.60 | $16.00 – $26.50 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $20.05 | $16.45 – $26.00 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $26.57 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $18.00 | $16.00 – $21.90 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $21.00 | $15.35 – $29.63 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $23.00 | $17.00 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $19.19 | $17.85 – $25.00 | 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 60 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 | $20.39 | $16.00 – $22.88 | Undetermined |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $18.85 | $16.00 – $21.04 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $19.04 | $16.25 – $22.19 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $19.48 | $16.57 – $20.07 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $20.11 | $16.88 – $22.08 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $20.09 | $16.99 – $23.21 | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $19.33 | $17.15 – $22.68 | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $19.23 | $16.50 – $22.16 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $19.46 | $16.97 – $24.01 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $19.60 | $15.80 – $24.00 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $18.75 | $16.21 – $21.25 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $18.80 | $16.38 – $22.51 | Moderate |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $19.80 | $16.00 – $26.74 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $19.20 | $16.10 – $22.75 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $19.95 | $16.10 – $24.00 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $20.00 | $17.00 – $25.00 | Very limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $23.30 | $18.00 – $27.01 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $20.13 | $17.00 – $25.00 | Very limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $23.00 | $18.07 – $27.38 | Very limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $21.00 | $17.00 – $26.25 | Very limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $18.56 | $16.10 – $24.25 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $19.00 | $16.10 – $25.00 | Very limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $21.00 | $17.00 – $26.00 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $19.66 | $16.10 – $25.53 | Very limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $18.25 | $16.44 – $24.00 | Very limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $18.55 | $16.10 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $20.50 | $16.50 – $25.25 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $20.00 | $16.25 – $25.92 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $26.44 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $26.57 | Limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $26.57 | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $19.25 | $17.60 – $25.00 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $19.64 | $17.60 – $23.10 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $26.57 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $26.57 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $19.25 | $17.60 – $32.05 | Limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $19.11 | $17.60 – $23.00 | Limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $18.10 | $17.60 – $27.91 | Limited |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $19.00 | $17.00 – $20.68 | Moderate |
| South Central | Manitoba | $19.67 | $17.76 – $24.98 | Moderate |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $18.23 | $16.00 – $24.00 | Moderate |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $17.50 | $16.00 – $21.00 | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $20.18 | $16.98 – $24.79 | Undetermined |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $17.53 | $16.23 – $30.13 | Moderate |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $15.35 – $23.00 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $21.00 | $15.35 – $29.63 | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $21.00 | $15.35 – $29.63 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $23.50 | $18.30 – $26.40 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $23.00 | $17.00 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $23.00 | $17.00 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $20.72 | $17.76 – $23.66 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $20.90 | $17.32 – $25.16 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $24.05 | $20.88 – $28.54 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $20.00 | $17.85 – $24.00 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $19.19 | $17.85 – $25.00 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $21.00 | $18.00 – $27.14 | Very limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $19.19 | $17.85 – $25.00 | 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 Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024) · 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.