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Average Canadian Health Policy Researchers, Consultants and Program Officer’s Salary — Health Policy Researchers, Consultants and Program Officers’ Wages in Canada
The table below details the hourly wages for Health Policy Researchers, Consultants and Program Officers.
The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this role is 4165.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: health promotion program officer, health care planner, wellness consultant and occupational health and safety prevention officer.
The pay information below has been split into rough bands as follows:
According to the latest figures, the highest hourly average wages are earned in Ottawa, Ontario at $33.06 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $20.13 per hour.
A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $50,000 – $60,000.
The largest sector of employment for health policy researchers, consultants and program officers is health care and social assistance. The average weekly earnings for the health care and social assistance sector as a whole were $800.90 in 2012, a decrease of 1.7% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for 2012 are $22.25.
Average Hourly Wages for Health Policy Researchers, Consultants and Program Officers in Canada
| Location | Low Wage $ per hr |
Average Wage $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House – Alberta | 16.35 | 32.26 | 42.56 | 2011 |
| Edmonton – Alberta | 15.07 | 31.68 | 43.47 | 2011 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest – British Columbia | 14.18 | 27.65 | 41.63 | 2011 |
| Winnipeg – Manitoba | – | – | – | – |
| Fredericton – New Brunswick | 10.00 | 21.74 | 35.69 | 2007 |
| Halifax – Nova Scotia | 14.00 | 25.35 | 35.75 | 2010 |
| Toronto – Ontario | 18.00 | 29.53 | 42.00 | 2010 |
| Ottawa – Ontario | 20.00 | 33.06 | 46.23 | 2010 |
| Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford – Ontario | 14.00 | 29.22 | 43.20 | 2010 |
| Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph – Ontario | 13.81 | 25.32 | 38.30 | 2010 |
| Prince Edward Island | 23.15 | - | 37.95 | 2011 |
| Montreal – Quebec | 11.28 | 20.13 | 28.85 | - |
| Saskatoon – Saskatchewan | 20.87 | 25.27 | 27.16 | 2006 |
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