Industrial Electrician Salary Canada

Average Canadian Industrial Electrician's Salary :: Industrial Electricians' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Industrial Electricians. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 7242.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: industrial electrician, mine electrician and plant maintenance electrician.

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 Edmonton, Alberta at $39.94 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $21.81 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $50,000 - $70,000.

The largest sector of employment for industrial electricians is manufacturing. The average weekly earnings for the manufacturing sector as a whole were $1016.04 in January 2012, an increase of 2.4% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for January 2012 were $28.22.

Average Hourly Wages for Industrial Electricians 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 21.60 32.61 43.49 2011
Edmonton - Alberta* 30.00 39.94 43.72 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 19.00 29.80 37.10 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 13.05 26.33 40.46 2011
Fredericton - New Brunswick 15.70 21.81 31.91 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 15.00 27.90 33.17 2010
Toronto - Ontario 17.60 28.29 38.50 2010
London / Woodstock - Ontario 17.50 28.24 38.68 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 18.10 28.75 39.00 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 15.40 25.64 37.19 2010
Prince Edward Island 12.90 24.90 25.40 2010
Montreal - Quebec 17.25 26.75 38.00 2008
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 18.50 30.40 39.40 2010





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