Medical Laboratory Technologist & Pathologist Assistant
Salary Canada

Average Medical Laboratory Technologists and Pathologists' Assistants Salary :: Medical Laboratory Technologists and Pathologists' Assistants in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Medical Laboratory Technologists and Pathologists Assistants. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 3211.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: medical technologist, pathologist's assistant, immunohematology technologist and cytotechnologist.

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 $33.11 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $18 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for medical laboratory technologists and pathologists assistants 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.

Medical Laboratory Technologists' and
Pathologists' Assistants

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

Year
Calgary - Alberta* 24.99 32.82 43.94 2009
Edmonton - Alberta* 32.51 33.11 37.33 2009
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 23.32 31.47 35.25 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 23.55 26.55 31.92 2009
Fredericton - New Brunswick 22.49 28.86 36.46 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 24.55 31.00 33.85 2010
Toronto - Ontario 22.68 31.67 38.12 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 24.21 32.66 38.12 2010
Windsor / Sarnia - Ontario 24.21 32.66 38.12 2010
London / Woodstock - Ontario 24.21 32.66 38.12 2010
Prince Edward Island 19.00 - 36.25 2011
Montreal - Quebec 24.80 18.00 23.75 -
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 24.70 29.80 36.50 2010





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