Human Resources Salary Canada

Average Canadian Human Resources Salary :: Human Resources Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Specialists in Human Resources. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1121.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: human resources consultant, wage analyst, conciliator and industrial relations officer.

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 Saskatoon and Rural West, Saskatchewan at $33.20 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Prince Edward Island at $24 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for specialists in human resources 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
Human Resources 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 / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 17.45 31.42 52.60 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 17.23 30.68 53.75 2011
British Columbia 13.32 29.90 47.50 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 17.00 27.00 40.00 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 18.00 24.13 36.18 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 17.00 31.75 41.00 2010
Toronto - Ontario 16.81 27.43 40.54 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 18.00 30.64 45.44 2010
London / Woodstock - Ontario 16.64 24.62 34.61 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 15.69 25.95 38.56 2010
Prince Edward Island 20.85 24.00 38.45 2010
Outaouais Region - Quebec 21.35 26.88 33.58 2007
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 18.50 33.20 45.00 2010





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