Graphic Arts Technician Salary Canada

Average Canadian Graphic Arts Technician's Salary :: Graphic Arts Technicians' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Graphic Arts Technicians. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 5223.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: graphics technician, animation painter, computer graphics design technician and sign writer.

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 $22.81 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Centre-du-Quebec Region, Quebec at $13.30 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for graphic arts technicians is manufacturing. The average weekly earnings for the manufacturing sector as a whole were $995.11 in February 2011, an increase of 3.7% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $959.83. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $27.64.

Average Hourly Wages for
Graphic Arts Technicians in Canada

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

Year
Calgary - Alberta* 16.41 22.81 36.98 2009
Edmonton - Alberta 16.00 20.21 31.97 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 13.00 20.07 32.23 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba - - - -
Fredericton - New Brunswick - - - -
Halifax - Nova Scotia 11.25 15.75 22.50 2010
Toronto - Ontario 10.25 18.85 34.14 2010
Ottawa - Ontario - - - -
Ontario 11.00 18.40 31.87 2010
Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph, Listowel - Ontario 11.55 16.90 24.25 2005
Prince Edward Island - - - -
Centre-du-Quebec Region - Quebec 9.50 13.30 17.11 2007
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan - - - -





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