Medical Laboratory Technician Salary Canada

Average Medical Laboratory Technician Salary :: Medical Laboratory Technician Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Medical Laboratory Technicians. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 3212.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: medical laboratory technician, phlebotomist and medical laboratory assistant.

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 Montreal, Quebec at $23 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Winnipeg, Manitoba at $17.30 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for medical laboratory technicians is health care and social assistance. The average weekly earnings for the health care and social assistance sector as a whole were $800.90 in February 2011, an increase of 3.3% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $775.57. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for February 2011 are $22.25.

Average Hourly Wages for
Medical Laboratory Technicians 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 17.40 22.19 27.75 2011
Edmonton - Alberta* 18.41 18.47 19.67 2009
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 15.50 20.93 23.70 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 12.60 17.30 22.00 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 9.74 17.70 24.99 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 18.45 20.95 20.95 2010
Toronto - Ontario 13.00 17.77 26.43 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 14.83 19.35 26.23 2010
London / Woodstock - Ontario 13.00 19.52 26.70 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 13.65 18.61 25.59 2010
Prince Edward Island 16.40 - 29.40 2011
Montreal - Quebec 19.50 23.00 28.50 2008
Regina - Saskatchewan 17.50 22.90 30.20 2010





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