Architect Salary Canada

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Average Canadian Architects’ Salary — Architects’ Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Architects.

The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this role is 2151.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: architect, industrial and commercial buildings architect and residential architect.

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 Edmonton, Alberta at $37.10 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Prince Edward Island at $15.75 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $65,000 – $75,000.

The largest sector of employment for architects is professional, scientific and technical services. The average weekly earnings for the professional, scientific and technical services sector as a whole were $1237.65 in 2012, an increase of 0.3% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for 2012 were $34.38.

Average Hourly Wages for Architects in Canada

Location Low Wage
$ per hr		 Average Wage
$ per hr		 High Wage
$ per hr		 Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House – Alberta 20.69 34.89 53.89 2011
Edmonton – Alberta 25.60 37.10 48.10 2010
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest – British Columbia 21.63 30.19 40.87 2011
Winnipeg – Manitoba 20.00 31.30 44.10 2010
Fredericton – New Brunswick – - - -
Halifax – Nova Scotia 23.85 30.00 36.00 2010
Toronto – Ontario 20.00 28.06 41.14 2010
Ottawa – Ontario 20.13 28.93 42.93 2010
Windsor / Sarnia – Ontario 20.13 28.93 42.93 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph – Ontario 20.13 28.93 42.93 2010
Prince Edward Island 10.40 15.75 20.95 2009
Montreal – Quebec - - – -
Saskatoon and Rural West – Saskatchewan 9.50 - - 2010


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