Gas Fitter Salary Canada

Average Canadian Gas Fitter's Salary :: Gas Fitters' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Gas Fitters. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 7253.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: gas fitter, gas technician, gas appliance repairer and gas servicer.

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 $38.49 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $16 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $45,000 - $65,000.

The largest sector of employment for gas fitters 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 Gas Fitters in Canada

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

Year
Calgary - Alberta* 17.84 38.49 38.49 2011
Edmonton - Alberta* 29.67 31.07 32.04 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 13.00 20.96 30.60 2011
Southern Manitoba - Manitoba 11.49 23.19 35.27 2011
Moncton / Richibucto - New Brunswick 10.44 18.37 27.50 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 20.00 30.00 32.35 2010
Toronto - Ontario 12.00 18.91 27.00 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 13.00 18.80 25.60 2010
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford - Ontario 13.00 18.72 26.41 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 13.00 18.54 28.00 2010
Prince Edward Island - - - -
Montreal - Quebec 10.75 16.00 22.50 -
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan - - - -





* 5th percentile, median, 95th percentile bands used.