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Sales and service occupations
Middle management occupations in retail and wholesale trade and customer services
- Accommodation service managers
- Corporate sales managers
- Managers in customer and personal services
- Restaurant and food service managers
- Retail and wholesale trade managers
Occupations in sales and services
- Bakers
- Butchers - retail and wholesale
- Cooks
- Estheticians, electrologists and related occupations
- Financial sales representatives
- Hairstylists and barbers
- Insurance agents and brokers
- Real estate agents and salespersons
- Shoe repairers and shoemakers
- Upholsterers
Retail sales and service supervisors and specialized occupations in sales and services
- Accommodation, travel, tourism and related services supervisors
- Chefs
- Cleaning supervisors
- Customer and information services supervisors
- Executive housekeepers
- Food service supervisors
- Funeral directors and embalmers
- Jewellers, jewellery and watch repairers and related occupations
- Other services supervisors
- Retail and wholesale buyers
- Retail sales supervisors
- Technical sales specialists - wholesale trade
Sales and service representatives and other customer and personal services occupations
- Airline ticket and service agents
- Bartenders
- Casino workers
- Customer services representatives - financial institutions
- Ground and water transport ticket agents, cargo service representatives and related clerks
- Hotel front desk clerks
- Image, social and other personal consultants
- Maîtres d'hôtel and hosts/hostesses
- Other customer and information services representatives
- Outdoor sport and recreational guides
- Postal services representatives
- Pursers and flight attendants
- Retail salespersons and visual merchandisers
- Sales and account representatives - wholesale trade (non-technical)
- Security guards and related security service occupations
- Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and milliners
- Tour and travel guides
- Travel counsellors
Sales and service support occupations
- Cashiers
- Dry cleaning, laundry and related occupations
- Food and beverage servers
- Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations
- Janitors, caretakers and heavy-duty cleaners
- Light duty cleaners
- Meat cutters and fishmongers - retail and wholesale
- Operators and attendants in amusement, recreation and sport
- Other sales related occupations
- Other service support occupations
- Other support occupations in personal services
- Pet groomers and animal care workers
- Service station attendants
- Specialized cleaners
- Store shelf stockers, clerks and order fillers
- Support occupations in accommodation, travel and facilities set-up services
Business, finance and administration occupations
Administrative and financial supervisors and specialized administrative occupations
- Accounting technicians and bookkeepers
- Assessors, business valuators and appraisers
- Conference and event planners
- Court reporters, medical transcriptionists and related occupations
- Employment insurance and revenue officers
- Executive assistants
- Health information management occupations
- Human resources and recruitment officers
- Insurance adjusters and claims examiners
- Insurance underwriters
- Procurement and purchasing agents and officers
- Records management technicians
- Statistical officers and related research support occupations
- Supervisors, finance and insurance office workers
- Supervisors, general office and administrative support workers
- Supervisors, library, correspondence and related information workers
- Supervisors, supply chain, tracking and scheduling coordination occupations
Administrative and financial support and supply chain logistics occupations
- Accounting and related clerks
- Banking, insurance and other financial clerks
- Collection clerks
- Correspondence, publication and regulatory clerks
- Court clerks and related court services occupations
- Data entry clerks
- Desktop publishing operators and related occupations
- Dispatchers
- General office support workers
- Library assistants and clerks
- Personnel clerks
- Production logistics workers
- Purchasing and inventory control workers
- Receptionists
- Shippers and receivers
- Storekeepers and partspersons
- Survey interviewers and statistical clerks
- Transportation route and crew schedulers
Administrative occupations and transportation logistics occupations
- Administrative assistants
- Administrative officers
- Customs, ship and other brokers
- Legal administrative assistants
- Medical administrative assistants
- Payroll administrators
- Production and transportation logistics coordinators
- Property administrators
Professional occupations in finance and business
- Financial advisors
- Financial and investment analysts
- Financial auditors and accountants
- Human resources professionals
- Other financial officers
- Professional occupations in advertising, marketing and public relations
- Professional occupations in business management consulting
- Securities agents, investment dealers and brokers
Specialized middle management occupations in administrative services, financial and business services and communication (except broadcasting)
- Advertising, marketing and public relations managers
- Banking, credit and other investment managers
- Financial managers
- Human resources managers
- Insurance, real estate and financial brokerage managers
- Other administrative services managers
- Other business services managers
- Purchasing managers
- Telecommunication carriers managers
Legislative and senior management occupations
Legislative and senior managers
- Legislators
- Senior government managers and officials
- Senior managers - construction, transportation, production and utilities
- Senior managers - financial, communications and other business services
- Senior managers - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
- Senior managers - trade, broadcasting and other services
Natural and applied sciences and related occupations
Professional occupations in natural and applied sciences
- Aerospace engineers
- Agricultural representatives, consultants and specialists
- Architects
- Biologists and related scientists
- Business systems specialists
- Chemical engineers
- Chemists
- Civil engineers
- Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers)
- Computer systems developers and programmers
- Cybersecurity specialists
- Data scientists
- Database analysts and data administrators
- Electrical and electronics engineers
- Forestry professionals
- Geological engineers
- Geoscientists and oceanographers
- Industrial and manufacturing engineers
- Information systems specialists
- Land surveyors
- Landscape architects
- Mathematicians, statisticians and actuaries
- Mechanical engineers
- Metallurgical and materials engineers
- Meteorologists and climatologists
- Mining engineers
- Other professional engineers
- Other professional occupations in physical sciences
- Petroleum engineers
- Physicists and astronomers
- Public and environmental health and safety professionals
- Software developers and programmers
- Software engineers and designers
- Urban and land use planners
- Web designers
- Web developers and programmers
Specialized middle management occupations in engineering, architecture, science and information systems
Technical occupations related to natural and applied sciences
- Agricultural and fish products inspectors
- Aircraft instrument, electrical and avionics mechanics, technicians and inspectors
- Architectural technologists and technicians
- Biological technologists and technicians
- Chemical technologists and technicians
- Civil engineering technologists and technicians
- Computer network and web technicians
- Conservation and fishery officers
- Construction estimators
- Construction inspectors
- Drafting technologists and technicians
- Electrical and electronics engineering technologists and technicians
- Electronic service technicians (household and business equipment)
- Engineering inspectors and regulatory officers
- Forestry technologists and technicians
- Geological and mineral technologists and technicians
- Industrial designers
- Industrial engineering and manufacturing technologists and technicians
- Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics
- Information systems testing technicians
- Land survey technologists and technicians
- Landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists
- Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians
- Non-destructive testers and inspectors
- Occupational health and safety specialists
- Technical occupations in geomatics and meteorology
- User support technicians
Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services
Assisting occupations in education and in legal and public protection
- Border services, customs, and immigration officers
- By-law enforcement and other regulatory officers
- Correctional service officers
- Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants
- Operations members of the Canadian Armed Forces
- Other instructors
- Sheriffs and bailiffs
Care providers and legal and public protection support occupations
- Home child care providers
- Home support workers, caregivers and related occupations
- Primary combat members of the Canadian Armed Forces
Front-line public protection services and paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community, education services
- Early childhood educators and assistants
- Firefighters
- Instructors of persons with disabilities
- Paralegals and related occupations
- Police officers (except commissioned)
- Religion workers
- Social and community service workers
- Specialized members of the Canadian Armed Forces
Managers in public administration, in education and social and community services and in public protection services
- Administrators - post-secondary education and vocational training
- Commissioned officers of the Canadian Armed Forces
- Commissioned police officers and related occupations in public protection services
- Fire chiefs and senior firefighting officers
- Government managers - economic analysis, policy development and program administration
- Government managers - education policy development and program administration
- Government managers - health and social policy development and program administration
- Managers in social, community and correctional services
- Other managers in public administration
- School principals and administrators of elementary and secondary education
Professional occupations in law, education, social, community and government services
- Business development officers and market researchers and analysts
- Career development practitioners and career counsellors (except education)
- College and other vocational instructors
- Economists and economic policy researchers and analysts
- Education policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Educational counsellors
- Elementary school and kindergarten teachers
- Health policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Judges
- Lawyers and Quebec notaries
- Natural and applied science policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Other professional occupations in social science
- Police investigators and other investigative occupations
- Post-secondary teaching and research assistants
- Probation and parole officers
- Program officers unique to government
- Recreation, sports and fitness policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Religious leaders
- Secondary school teachers
- Social policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Social workers
- Therapists in counselling and related specialized therapies
- University professors and lecturers
Student monitors, crossing guards and related occupations
Health occupations
Assisting occupations in support of health services
- Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants
- Medical laboratory assistants and related technical occupations
- Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates
- Other assisting occupations in support of health services
- Pharmacy technical assistants and pharmacy assistants
Professional occupations in health
- Audiologists and speech-language pathologists
- Chiropractors
- Dentists
- Dietitians and nutritionists
- General practitioners and family physicians
- Kinesiologists and other professional occupations in therapy and assessment
- Nurse practitioners
- Nursing coordinators and supervisors
- Occupational therapists
- Optometrists
- Other professional occupations in health diagnosing and treating
- Pharmacists
- Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals
- Physiotherapists
- Psychologists
- Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses
- Specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine
- Specialists in surgery
- Veterinarians
Specialized middle management occupations in health care
Technical occupations in health
- Animal health technologists and veterinary technicians
- Cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists
- Dental hygienists and dental therapists
- Dental technologists and technicians
- Denturists
- Licensed practical nurses
- Massage therapists
- Medical laboratory technologists
- Medical radiation technologists
- Medical sonographers
- Opticians
- Other medical technologists and technicians
- Other practitioners of natural healing
- Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment
- Paramedical occupations
- Pharmacy technicians
- Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists
- Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and acupuncturists
Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport
Occupations in art, culture and sport
- Actors, comedians and circus performers
- Artisans and craftspersons
- Athletes
- Coaches
- Dancers
- Motion pictures, broadcasting, photography and performing arts assistants and operators
- Painters, sculptors and other visual artists
- Patternmakers - textile, leather and fur products
- Photographers
- Registrars, restorers, interpreters and other occupations related to museum and art galleries
- Sports officials and referees
- Theatre, fashion, exhibit and other creative designers
Professional occupations in art and culture
- Archivists
- Authors and writers (except technical)
- Conductors, composers and arrangers
- Conservators and curators
- Editors
- Journalists
- Librarians
- Musicians and singers
- Producers, directors, choreographers and related occupations
- Technical writers
- Translators, terminologists and interpreters
Specialized middle management occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport
- Library, archive, museum and art gallery managers
- Managers - publishing, motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts
- Recreation, sports and fitness program and service directors
Support occupations in art and culture
Support occupations in sport
Technical occupations in art, culture and sport
- Announcers and other broadcasters
- Audio and video recording technicians
- Broadcast technicians
- Film and video camera operators
- Graphic arts technicians
- Graphic designers and illustrators
- Interior designers and interior decorators
- Library and public archive technicians
- Other technical and coordinating occupations in motion pictures, broadcasting and the performing arts
Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations
General trades
- Bus drivers, subway operators and other transit operators
- Concrete finishers
- Drillers and blasters - surface mining, quarrying and construction
- Floor covering installers
- General building maintenance workers and building superintendents
- Glaziers
- Heavy equipment operators
- Other repairers and servicers
- Painters and decorators (except interior decorators)
- Pest controllers and fumigators
- Plasterers, drywall installers and finishers and lathers
- Printing press operators
- Railway and yard locomotive engineers
- Railway conductors and brakemen/women
- Residential and commercial installers and servicers
- Roofers and shinglers
- Tilesetters
- Transport truck drivers
Helpers and labourers and other transport drivers, operators and labourers
- Boat and cable ferry operators and related occupations
- Construction trades helpers and labourers
- Delivery service drivers and door-to-door distributors
- Longshore workers
- Material handlers
- Other trades helpers and labourers
- Public works and maintenance labourers
- Railway and motor transport labourers
- Taxi and limousine drivers and chauffeurs
Mail and message distribution, other transport equipment operators and related maintenance workers
- Air transport ramp attendants
- Automotive and heavy truck and equipment parts installers and servicers
- Couriers and messengers
- Letter carriers
- Mail and parcel sorters and related occupations
- Public works maintenance equipment operators and related workers
- Railway yard and track maintenance workers
- Utility maintenance workers
- Water transport deck and engine room crew
Middle management occupations in trades and transportation
- Construction managers
- Facility operation and maintenance managers
- Home building and renovation managers
- Managers in transportation
- Postal and courier services managers
Technical trades and transportation officers and controllers
- Air pilots, flight engineers and flying instructors
- Air traffic controllers and related occupations
- Aircraft mechanics and aircraft inspectors
- Appliance servicers and repairers
- Auto body collision, refinishing and glass technicians and damage repair estimators
- Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers
- Boilermakers
- Bricklayers
- Cabinetmakers
- Carpenters
- Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics
- Contractors and supervisors, carpentry trades
- Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications occupations
- Contractors and supervisors, heavy equipment operator crews
- Contractors and supervisors, machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations
- Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades
- Contractors and supervisors, other construction trades, installers, repairers and servicers
- Contractors and supervisors, pipefitting trades
- Crane operators
- Deck officers, water transport
- Electrical mechanics
- Electrical power line and cable workers
- Electricians (except industrial and power system)
- Elevator constructors and mechanics
- Engineer officers, water transport
- Gas fitters
- Heating, refrigeration and air conditioning mechanics
- Heavy-duty equipment mechanics
- Industrial electricians
- Insulators
- Ironworkers
- Machine fitters
- Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors
- Motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle and other related mechanics
- Oil and solid fuel heating mechanics
- Other small engine and small equipment repairers
- Other technical trades and related occupations
- Plumbers
- Power system electricians
- Railway carmen/women
- Railway traffic controllers and marine traffic regulators
- Sheet metal workers
- Steamfitters, pipefitters and sprinkler system installers
- Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters
- Supervisors, mail and message distribution occupations
- Supervisors, motor transport and other ground transit operators
- Supervisors, printing and related occupations
- Supervisors, railway transport operations
- Telecommunications equipment installation and cable television service technicians
- Telecommunications line and cable installers and repairers
- Tool and die makers
- Water well drillers
- Welders and related machine operators
Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations
Harvesting, landscaping and natural resources labourers
- Aquaculture and marine harvest labourers
- Harvesting labourers
- Landscaping and grounds maintenance labourers
- Livestock labourers
- Logging and forestry labourers
- Mine labourers
- Nursery and greenhouse labourers
- Oil and gas drilling, servicing and related labourers
- Trappers and hunters
Middle management occupations in production and agriculture
- Managers in agriculture
- Managers in aquaculture
- Managers in horticulture
- Managers in natural resources production and fishing
Occupations in natural resources and related production
- Fishermen/women
- Fishing masters and officers
- Logging machinery operators
- Oil and gas well drillers, servicers, testers and related workers
- Underground production and development miners
Supervisors in natural resources, agriculture and related production
- Agricultural service contractors and farm supervisors
- Contractors and supervisors, landscaping, grounds maintenance and horticulture services
- Contractors and supervisors, oil and gas drilling and services
- Supervisors, logging and forestry
- Supervisors, mining and quarrying
Workers in natural resources, agriculture and related production
- Chain saw and skidder operators
- Fishing vessel deckhands
- Oil and gas well drilling and related workers and services operators
- Silviculture and forestry workers
- Specialized livestock workers and farm machinery operators
- Underground mine service and support workers
Occupations in manufacturing and utilities
Central control and process operators and aircraft assembly assemblers and inspectors
- Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly inspectors
- Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing
- Central control and process operators, petroleum, gas and chemical processing
- Pulping, papermaking and coating control operators
Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities
- Labourers in chemical products processing and utilities
- Labourers in fish and seafood processing
- Labourers in food and beverage processing
- Labourers in metal fabrication
- Labourers in mineral and metal processing
- Labourers in rubber and plastic products manufacturing
- Labourers in textile processing and cutting
- Labourers in wood, pulp and paper processing
- Other labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities
Machine operators, assemblers and inspectors in processing, manufacturing and printing
- Assemblers and inspectors of other wood products
- Assemblers and inspectors, electrical appliance, apparatus and equipment manufacturing
- Assemblers, fabricators and inspectors, industrial electrical motors and transformers
- Binding and finishing machine operators
- Camera, platemaking and other prepress occupations
- Chemical plant machine operators
- Concrete, clay and stone forming operators
- Electronics assemblers, fabricators, inspectors and testers
- Fish and seafood plant workers
- Foundry workers
- Furniture and fixture assemblers, finishers, refinishers and inspectors
- Glass forming and finishing machine operators and glass cutters
- Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers
- Industrial painters, coaters and metal finishing process operators
- Industrial sewing machine operators
- Inspectors and graders, textile, fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing
- Inspectors and testers, mineral and metal processing
- Lumber graders and other wood processing inspectors and graders
- Machine operators and inspectors, electrical apparatus manufacturing
- Machine operators of other metal products
- Machine operators, mineral and metal processing
- Machining tool operators
- Mechanical assemblers and inspectors
- Metalworking and forging machine operators
- Motor vehicle assemblers, inspectors and testers
- Other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors
- Other wood processing machine operators
- Paper converting machine operators
- Photographic and film processors
- Plastic products assemblers, finishers and inspectors
- Plastics processing machine operators
- Plateless printing equipment operators
- Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing
- Pulp mill, papermaking and finishing machine operators
- Rubber processing machine operators and related workers
- Sawmill machine operators
- Testers and graders, food and beverage processing
- Textile fibre and yarn, hide and pelt processing machine operators and workers
- Weavers, knitters and other fabric making occupations
- Woodworking machine operators
Middle management occupations in manufacturing and utilities
Processing, manufacturing and utilities supervisors and utilities operators and controllers
- Power engineers and power systems operators
- Supervisors, electronics and electrical products manufacturing
- Supervisors, food and beverage processing
- Supervisors, forest products processing
- Supervisors, furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Supervisors, mineral and metal processing
- Supervisors, motor vehicle assembling
- Supervisors, other mechanical and metal products manufacturing
- Supervisors, other products manufacturing and assembly
- Supervisors, petroleum, gas and chemical processing and utilities
- Supervisors, plastic and rubber products manufacturing
- Supervisors, textile, fabric, fur and leather products processing and manufacturing
- Water and waste treatment plant operators
Data: Statistics Canada (NOC 2021, Census 2021), Employment and Social Development Canada (Job Bank wages 2025, Canadian Occupational Projection System 2024-2033, OaSIS) under the Open Government Licence - Canada, and interest profiles from O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0) through The Dais NOC to O*NET crosswalk.