Dental Assistant Salary Canada
Average Canadian Dental Assistant Salary :: Dental Assistant Wages in Canada
Average Hourly Wages for
Dental Assistants in Canada
| Location | Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Winnipeg - Manitoba | 13.99 | 17.02 | 21.01 | 2009 |
| Moncton / Richibucto - New Brunswick | 13.00 | 17.02 | 25.00 | 2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia | 13.00 | 17.50 | 22.00 | 2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario | 16.00 | 19.79 | 26.20 | 2010 |
| Muskoka / Kawarthas / Peterborough - Ontario | 15.00 | 19.28 | 24.00 | 2010 |
| Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario | 15.00 | 18.69 | 24.00 | 2010 |
| Prince Edward Island | 14.50 | 16.75 | 20.15 | 2010 |
| Montreal - Quebec | 9.00 | 12.00 | 15.75 | 2007 |
| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan | 15.20 | 20.50 | 26.00 | 2010 |
| Toronto - Ontario | 14.00 | 18.60 | 23.50 | 2010 |
| Calgary - Alberta* | 23.00 | 25.00 | 28.00 | 2009 |
| Edmonton - Alberta | 17.00 | 20.74 | 26.23 | 2008 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia | 17.50 | 21.52 | 26.00 | 2011 |
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The table above details the hourly wages for Dental Assistants. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 3411.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: certified dental assistant and registered dental assistant.
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 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $12 per hour
The largest sector of employment for dental assistants is health care and social assistance. The average weekly earnings for the health care and social assistance sector as a whole were $800.90 in February 2011, an increase of 3.3% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $775.57. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for February 2011 are $22.25.