Paramedic Salary Canada

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Average Canadian Ambulance Attendants’ and Paramedics’ Salary — Ambulance Attendants’ and Paramedics’ Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Ambulance Attendants and Paramedics.

The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this role is 3234.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: ambulance attendant, emergency medical attendant (EMA), emergency medical responder and paramedic.

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 and Edmonton, Alberta at $32.87 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $16 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $50,000 – $60,000.

The largest sector of employment for ambulance attendants and paramedics is health care and social assistance. The average weekly earnings for the health care and social assistance sector as a whole were $800.90 in 2012, a decrease of 1.7% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for 2012 are $22.25.

Ambulance Attendants and Paramedics

Location Low Wage
$ per hr		 Average Wage
$ per hr		 High Wage
$ per hr		 Year
Calgary – Alberta* - 32.87 - 2011
Edmonton – Alberta* - 32.87 - 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest – British Columbia 15.00 21.28 29.28 2011
Winnipeg – Manitoba 19.00 22.40 25.20 2009
Fredericton – New Brunswick 12.96 19.60 22.30 2010
Halifax – Nova Scotia 20.17 25.27 30.21 2010
Toronto – Ontario 13.00 28.22 37.61 2010
Ottawa – Ontario 13.10 24.18 35.23 2010
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford – Ontario 13.69 28.26 37.18 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph – Ontario 13.50 29.73 37.64 2010
Prince Edward Island 17.50 - 24.30 2010
Montreal – Quebec 11.25 16.00 22.50 2007
Saskatoon Area – Saskatchewan 17.00 22.50 30.00 2010


* 5th percentile, median, 95th percentile bands used.