Hotel Front Desk Clerks - Canada Salary and Wage Guide
Average Canadian Hotel Front Desk Clerk's Salary :: Hotel Front Desk Clerks' Wages in Canada
The table below details the hourly wages for Hotel Front Desk Clerks. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 6435.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: front desk hotel clerk, hotel receptionist, room clerk and guest service agent.
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 Toronto, Ontario at $14.23 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Prince Edward Island at $10.10 per hour.
A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $20,000 - $30,000.
The largest sector of employment for hotel front desk clerks is accommodation and food services.
The average weekly earnings for the accommodation and food services as a whole were $353.45 in January 2012, an increase of 1.5% on the previous year.
Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for January 2012 were $9.81.
Average Hourly Wages for
Hotel Front Desk Clerks in Canada
| Location |
Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta |
10.50 |
13.00 |
16.29 |
2011 |
| Edmonton - Alberta |
9.67 |
12.18 |
16.00 |
2010 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia |
10.50 |
13.55 |
18.72 |
2011 |
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| Southern Manitoba - Manitoba |
9.50 |
11.00 |
14.40 |
2010 |
| Saint John / Sussex / St. Stephen - New Brunswick |
9.00 |
11.00 |
17.00 |
2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia |
10.00 |
11.20 |
16.45 |
2011 |
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| Toronto - Ontario |
10.51 |
14.23 |
18.50 |
2010 |
| Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford - Ontario |
10.25 |
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13.66 |
2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario |
10.25 |
12.36 |
15.81 |
2010 |
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| Windsor / Sarnia Area - Ontario |
10.25 |
12.70 |
18.56 |
2010 |
| Prince Edward Island |
9.60 |
10.10 |
13.35 |
2011 |
| Montreal - Quebec |
9.65 |
11.00 |
15.00 |
2007 |
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| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan |
10.00 |
11.70 |
15.50 |
2010 |
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* 5
th percentile, median, 95
th percentile bands used.