Mail, Postal and Related Clerks - Canada Salary and Wage Guide

Average Canadian Mail, Postal and Related Clerk's Salary :: Mail, Postal and Related Clerks' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Mail, Postal and Related Clerks. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1461.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: mail clerk, postal clerk and postal counter clerk.

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 Halifax, Nova Scotia at $23.15 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Edmonton, Alberta at $11.66 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $30,000 - $45,000.

The largest sector of employment for mail, postal and related clerks is transportation and warehousing. The average weekly earnings for the transportation and warehousing sector as a whole were $932.59 in January 2012, an increase of 2.3% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for January 2012 are $25.91.

Average Hourly Wages for
Mail, Postal and Related Clerks in Canada

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

Year
Calgary - Alberta* 11.66 15.85 20.71 2011
Edmonton - Alberta* 11.36 11.66 21.78 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 12.55 19.20 22.00 2006/7
Winnipeg - Manitoba 11.30 18.60 23.80 2009
Fredericton - New Brunswick 9.00 19.48 24.01 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 10.00 23.15 24.14 2011
Toronto - Ontario 10.25 15.69 24.15 2010
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford Area - Ontario 10.25 16.76 24.15 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 11.25 19.30 24.84 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph Area - Ontario 10.85 20.19 24.87 2010
Prince Edward Island 12.55 20.95 23.85 2011
Montreal - Quebec 9.75 14.00 19.75 2007
Saskatoon Area - Saskatchewan - - - -





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