Butchers, Meat Cutters and Fishmongers Salary Canada

Average Canadian Butchers', Meat Cutters' and Fishmongers' Salary :: Butchers', Meat Cutters' and Fishmongers' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Butchers, Meat Cutters and Fishmongers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 6251.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: butcher, head butcher, apprentice butcher, fishmonger and meat cutter.

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 / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House, Alberta at $17.14 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $12.00 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $25,000 - $35,000.

The largest sector of employment for butchers and meat cutters is retail trade. The average weekly earnings for the retail trade sector as a whole were $517.23 in January 2012, an increase of 5.7% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for January 2012 were $14.37.

Average Hourly Wages for
Butchers, Meat Cutters and Fishmongers in Canada