Librarian Salary Canada

Average Canadian Librarian's Salary :: Librarians' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Librarians. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 5111.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: librarian, bibliographer, cataloguer, iconographer and information and reference librarian.

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, Alberta at $43.13 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $18.13 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for librarians is information and cultural industries. The average weekly earnings for the information and cultural industries sector as a whole were $1094.33 in February 2011, an increase of 3.6% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1056.35. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $30.40.

Average Hourly Wages for
Librarians in Canada

Location Low Wage
$
per hr
Average
$
per hr
High Wage
$
per hr

Year
Calgary - Alberta* 16.94 43.13 43.13 2009
Edmonton - Alberta* 20.94 32.13 40.33 2009
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 19.88 27.30 32.66 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 14.80 26.50 44.20 2009
Fredericton - New Brunswick 10.23 18.13 30.71 2005/6
Halifax - Nova Scotia 19.00 27.20 49.20 2010
Toronto - Ontario 17.50 28.51 41.75 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 15.85 28.78 40.78 2010
London /Woodstock Area - Ontario 18.13 24.44 31.93 2007
Waterloo Region / Huron / Perth / Wellington / Dufferin - Ontario 15.02 20.57 28.57 2007
Prince Edward Island - - - -
Montreal - Quebec 18.00 - 35.00 2008
Saskatoon Area - Saskatchewan 19.73 26.23 30.14 2006





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