Early Childhood Education Salary Canada

Average Canadian Early Childhood Educators and Assistant's Salary :: Early Childhood Educators and Assistants' Wages in Canada

Average Hourly Wages for
Early Childhood Educators and Assistants in Canada

Location Low Wage
$
per hr
Average
$
per hr
High Wage
$
per hr

Year
Winnipeg - Manitoba 9.50 14.10 24.50 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 9.00 11.02 18.50 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 9.65 12.00 23.40 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 12.00 16.02 21.00 2010
Windsor / Sarnia - Ontario 11.00 15.75 23.18 2011
London / Woodstock Area - Ontario 11.25 15.37 22.48 2010
Prince Edward Island 9.30 11.55 18.25 2011
Montreal - Quebec 12.25 15.50 20.25 2008
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 9.90 13.91 24.40 2011
Toronto - Ontario 11.22 16.21 23.78 2010
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 10.00 14.33 20.55 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 9.86 13.55 19.62 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 11.00 14.66 20.72 2008/9





The table above details the hourly wages for Early Childhood Educators. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 4214.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: early childhood educator, pre-school teacher, day-care worker and child-care worker.

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 Toronto, Ontario at $16.21 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $11.02 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for early childhood educators is educational services. The average weekly earnings for the educational services sector as a whole were $964.59 in February 2011, an increase of 5.4% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $915.25. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $26.79.