Chemist Salary Canada

Average Canadian Chemist's Salary :: Chemists' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Chemists. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 2112.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: chemist, research chemist, biochemist, physical chemist and quality control chemist.

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 $36.18 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Edmonton, Alberta at $25 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $55,000 - $65,000.

The largest sector of employment for chemists 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 January 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 January 2012 were $34.38.

Average Hourly Wages for Chemists in Canada

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