Mechanical Engineer Salary Canada

Average Canadian Mechanical Engineer's Salary :: Mechanical Engineers' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Mechanical Engineers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 2132.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: mechanical engineer, automotive engineer, refrigeration engineer and fluid mechanics engineer.

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 Vancouver, British Columbia at $47.04 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph, Ontario at $27.29 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $65,000 - $75,000.

The largest sector of employment for mechanical engineers 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 Mechanical Engineers in Canada

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Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 30.58 37.58 45.99 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 30.58 37.58 45.99 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 24.92 47.04 66.50 2010
Winnipeg - Manitoba 19.20 28.90 40.00 2010
Fredericton / Woodstock / Grand Falls / Edmundston - New Brunswick 30.54 40.20 46.15 2009
Halifax - Nova Scotia 22.50 34.50 48.00 2010
Toronto - Ontario 20.00 32.35 48.33 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 20.43 31.88 47.61 2010
Windsor / Sarnia - Ontario 23.75 30.92 43.47 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 18.27 27.29 37.21 2010
Prince Edward Island 21.70 36.85 45.95 2010
Montreal - Quebec 20.00 30.00 40.00 2008
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 27.40 40.80 73.90 2010