Office Administrator Salary Canada

Average Canadian Administrative Officers' Salary :: Administrative Officers' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Administrative Officers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1221.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: administrative officer, office administrator and office manager.

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 Ottawa, Ontario at $22.73 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Bas-Saint-Laurent Region, Quebec at $16.68 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for administrative officers is public administration. The average weekly earnings for the public administration sector as a whole were $1114.75 in February 2011, an increase of 2.8% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1084.30. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for February 2011 are $30.37.

Average Hourly Wages for
Administrative Officers in Canada

Location Low Wage
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per hr
Average
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per hr
High Wage
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per hr

Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 14.56 21.70 36.14 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 15.00 21.53 31.34 2010
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 11.2 20.62 41.72 2008/9
Winnipeg - Manitoba 12.00 20.00 38.46 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 11.50 19.74 28.91 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 12.30 20.50 32.25 2010
Toronto - Ontario 13.00 19.85 29.94 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 14.14 22.73 33.63 2010
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford - Ontario 13.00 18.77 27.19 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 13.00 19.01 28.00 2010
Prince Edward Island 19.90 22.25 24.60 2011
Bas-Saint-Laurent Region - Quebec 13.39 16.68 19.35 2007
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 11.20 20.80 32.50 2010