Insurance Adjuster Salary Canada

Average Canadian Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiner's Salary :: Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiners' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiners. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1233.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: insurance adjuster, wage analyst, claims investigator, loss examiner and property adjuster.

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 / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House, Alberta at $28.15 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Ottawa, Ontario at $19.26 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for insurance adjusters and claims examiners is finance and insurance. The average weekly earnings for the finance and insurance sector as a whole were $1093.14 in February 2011, a decrease of 0.8% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1102.02. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $30.37.

Average Hourly Wages for
Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiners in Canada

Location Low Wage
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per hr
Average
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High Wage
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Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 17.00 28.15 48.08 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 16.34 26.17 37.91 2010
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 19.37 26.24 34.42 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 12.10 22.60 34.70 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 11.00 21.55 35.83 2006/7
Halifax - Nova Scotia 14.65 22.85 30.20 2010
Toronto - Ontario 16.39 24.77 37.66 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 10.50 19.26 35.40 2010
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford - Ontario 17.00 24.64 35.15 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 16.00 22.36 30.13 2010
Prince Edward Island - - - -
Montreal - Quebec 10.90 19.36 27.82 2007
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 14.40 24.40 34.20 2010