Office Assistant Salary Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for General Office Clerks. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1422.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: general office clerk, office assistant and typist.

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 / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House, Alberta at $18.05 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Toronto, Ontario at $13.64 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for general office clerks is public administration. The average weekly earnings for the public administration sector as a whole were $1114.75 in February 2011, an increase of 2.8% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1084.30. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $30.37.

Average Hourly Wages for
General Office Clerks in Canada