Civil Engineer Salary Canada

Average Canadian Civil Engineer's Salary :: Civil Engineers' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Civil Engineers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 2131.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: civil engineer, surveying engineer, structural engineer, construction engineer and environmental engineer.

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 $42.31 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $23.54 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $70,000 - $80,000.

The largest sector of employment for civil engineers 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 Civil Engineers in Canada

Location Low Wage
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High Wage
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Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 36.55 42.31 50.00 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 36.55 42.31 50.00 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 26.35 38.46 63.67 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 20.63 35.00 45.77 2009
Fredericton - New Brunswick 12.50 23.54 36.01 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 23.50 36.20 48.00 2010
Toronto - Ontario 21.00 33.65 49.98 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 28.56 38.08 50.34 2010
London / Woodstock - Ontario 19.52 32.57 47.38 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 21.90 31.99 40.22 2010
Prince Edward Island 21.70 36.85 41.00 2010
Quebec Region - Quebec 23.00 - 38.00 2008
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 22.70 36.50 66.80 2010