Electrician (Except Industrial and Power System) Salary Canada

Average Canadian Electrician's Salary :: Electricians' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Electricians (Except Industrial and Power System). The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 7241.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: electrician, construction electrician, wiring electrician, building electrician and apprentice electrician.

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 / Edmonton, Alberta at $29.85 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $20.58 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $42,000 - $57,000.

The largest sector of employment for electricians (except industrial and power system) is construction. The average weekly earnings for the construction sector as a whole were $1075.80 in January 2012, an increase of 3.2% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for January 2012 were $29.88.

Average Hourly Wages for Electricians in Canada

Location Low Wage
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Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 17.75 29.15 38.42 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 17.25 29.85 41.48 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 15.00 23.21 31.84 2008/9
Winnipeg - Manitoba 12.00 23.00 34.00 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 9.25 20.58 40.00 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 12.00 27.90 33.15 2010
Toronto - Ontario 14.55 26.19 37.00 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 14.00 25.29 36.36 2010
Windsor / Sarnia - Ontario 15.00 29.51 40.73 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 14.00 25.41 37.71 2010
Prince Edward Island 13.75 - 28.00 2011
Montreal - Quebec 17.25 23.00 29.50 -
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 14.00 23.90 35.00 2010