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Average Canadian Material Handler’s Salary — Material Handlers’ Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Material Handlers.

The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this role is 7452.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: coal handler, furniture mover, stockpiler, warehouseman and truck loader.

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 $17.03 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $11.61 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $22,000 – $32,000.

The largest sector of employment for material handlers is wholesale trade. The average weekly earnings for the wholesale trade sector were $1069.98 in 2012, an increase of 2.5% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for 2012 were $29.72.

Average Hourly Wages for Material Handlers in Canada

Location Low Wage
$ per hr		 Average Wage
$ per hr		 High Wage
$ per hr		 Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House – Alberta 12.02 16.74 24.94 2011
Edmonton – Alberta 11.39 17.03 23.94 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest – British Columbia 10.00 16.05 23.80 2011
Winnipeg – Manitoba 10.00 16.20 22.30 2009
Fredericton – New Brunswick 9.00 11.61 21.53 2010
Halifax – Nova Scotia 9.65 13.75 25.05 2010
Toronto – Ontario 10.27 14.71 20.81 2010
Ottawa – Ontario 10.75 14.59 20.30 2010
Windsor / Sarnia – Ontario 10.25 15.36 26.30 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph – Ontario 11.25 15.75 21.30 2010
Prince Edward Island 9.30 12.60 17.35 2011
Montreal – Quebec 9.00 - 22.00 2008
Saskatoon and Rural West – Saskatchewan 10.12 15.62 30.77 2011