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Average Canadian Accounting and Related Clerks' Salary
:: Accounting and Related Clerks' Wages in Canada
The table below details the hourly wages for Accounting and Related Clerks. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1431.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: accounting clerk, finance clerk, income tax return preparer and auditing clerk.
The pay information below has been split into rough bands as follows:
According to the latest figures, the highest hourly average wages are earned in Calgary, Alberta at $21.16 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $14.75 per hour.
The average weekly earnings for the finance and insurance sector as a whole were $1093.14 in February 2011, a decrease of 0.8% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1102.02. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for February 2011 are $30.37.
Average Hourly Wages for
* 5th percentile, median, 95th percentile bands used.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: accounting clerk, finance clerk, income tax return preparer and auditing clerk.
The pay information below has been split into rough bands as follows:
- Low pay: The bottom 10 percent of workers earn this.
- High pay: The top 10 percent of workers earn this.
- Average pay: The average wage in this sector after removing the bottom 10 percent and the top 10 percent of workers. Average pay is then calculated on the remaining 80 percent of workers' wages.
According to the latest figures, the highest hourly average wages are earned in Calgary, Alberta at $21.16 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $14.75 per hour.
The average weekly earnings for the finance and insurance sector as a whole were $1093.14 in February 2011, a decrease of 0.8% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1102.02. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for February 2011 are $30.37.
Average Hourly Wages for
Accounting and Related Clerks in Canada
| Location | Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary - Alberta * | 14.42 | 21.16 | 33.16 | 2009 |
| Edmonton and Area - Alberta | 14.00 | 19.23 | 26.44 | 2011 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia | 9.36 | 17.43 | 29.86 | 2008 |
| Winnipeg - Manitoba | 11.25 | 17.00 | 25.85 | 2010 |
| Fredericton - New Brunswick | 10.00 | 17.50 | 24.48 | 2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia | 10.00 | 16.00 | 25.00 | 2010 |
| Toronto - Ontario | 12.00 | 17.42 | 23.40 | 2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario | 12.25 | 18.81 | 24.45 | 2010 |
| Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario | 12.00 | 16.38 | 22.00 | 2010 |
| Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford - Ontario | 12.00 | 17.05 | 23.66 | 2010 |
| Prince Edward Island | 10.25 | 18.80 | 24.40 | 2011 |
| Montreal - Quebec | 11.50 | 14.75 | 28.00 | 2008 |
| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan | 12.61 | 19.03 | 29.40 | 2011 |
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* 5th percentile, median, 95th percentile bands used.