Electrical Engineer Salary Canada
Average Canadian Electrical and Electronics Engineer's Salary :: Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Wages in Canada
The table below details the hourly wages for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 2133.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: electrical engineer, electronics engineer, television systems engineer and instrumentation and control 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 Prince Edward Island at $47.75 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Saint John, New Brunswick at $30 per hour.
A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $75,000 - $85,000.
The largest sector of employment for electrical and electronics engineers is manufacturing.
The average weekly earnings for the manufacturing sector as a whole were $1016.04 in January 2012, an increase of 2.4% on the previous year.
Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for January 2012 were $28.22.
Average Hourly Wages for
Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Canada
| Location |
Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta |
39.16 |
43.42 |
50.00 |
2011 |
| Edmonton - Alberta |
39.16 |
43.42 |
50.00 |
2011 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia |
25.05 |
36.54 |
60.53 |
2011 |
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| Winnipeg - Manitoba |
20.00 |
32.10 |
44.10 |
2010 |
| Saint John /Sussex/ St. Stephen - New Brunswick |
24.00 |
30.00 |
40.00 |
2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia |
24.30 |
35.20 |
43.00 |
2010 |
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| Toronto - Ontario |
20.50 |
34.53 |
52.27 |
2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario |
24.40 |
41.79 |
57.79 |
2010 |
| London / Woodstock - Ontario |
21.74 |
35.31 |
53.15 |
2010 |
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| Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario |
21.98 |
32.42 |
48.26 |
2010 |
| Prince Edward Island |
21.70 |
47.75 |
51.95 |
2010 |
| Montreal - Quebec |
20.00 |
34.00 |
48.00 |
2008 |
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| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan |
24.40 |
36.50 |
64.40 |
2010 |
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