The table below details the hourly wages for Customs, Ship and Other Brokers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1236.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: accounts customs broker, ship broker and ship agent.
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 $25.30 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $9.49 per hour.
The largest sector of employment for customs, ship and other brokers is transportation and warehousing.
The average weekly earnings for the transportation and warehousing sector as a whole were $928.13 in February 2011, an increase of 8.6% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $854.47.
Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for February 2011 are $25.78.
Average Hourly Wages for
Customs, Ship and Other Brokers in Canada
| Location |
Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary - Alberta* |
20.59 |
25.30 |
25.30 |
2009 |
| Edmonton - Alberta* |
20.59 |
20.59 |
26.05 |
2009 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia |
13.20 |
18.87 |
28.32 |
2011 |
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| Winnipeg - Manitoba |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Fredericton - New Brunswick |
11.85 |
12.53 |
17.30 |
2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia |
13.50 |
20.15 |
26.35 |
2010 |
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| Toronto - Ontario |
14.00 |
19.19 |
28.10 |
2010 |
| London-Woodstock Area - Ontario |
12.33 |
17.01 |
25.00 |
2007 |
| Windsor-Essex County - Ontario |
10.00 |
13.65 |
16.05 |
2007 |
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| Ottowa - Ontario |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Prince Edward Island |
11.00 |
13.37 |
17.10 |
2006 |
| Montreal - Quebec |
6.28 |
9.49 |
23.08 |
- |
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| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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* 5
th percentile, median, 95
th percentile bands used.