Medical Secretary Salary Canada

Average Canadian Medical Secretary's Salary :: Medical Secretaries' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Medical Secretaries. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1243.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: medical secretary, medical stenographer and ward secretary.

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 Calgary, Alberta at $20.84 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $12 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for medical secretaries 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 this sector for February 2011 were $22.25.

Average Hourly Wages for
Medical Secretaries in Canada

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

Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 16.00 20.84 23.11 2010
Edmonton - Alberta* 16.00 19.40 21.15 2009
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 15.15 20.05 22.70 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 11.01 15.24 20.43 2009
Fredericton - New Brunswick 15.14 16.51 18.72 2007
Halifax - Nova Scotia 11.10 17.30 23.45 2010
Toronto - Ontario 14.00 18.90 24.21 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 12.00 18.05 22.36 2010
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford - Ontario 13.00 18.48 24.23 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 14.50 19.22 23.47 2010
Prince Edward Island 12.35 18.95 21.65 2011
Montreal - Quebec 9.75 12.00 17.00 2007
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 10.00 14.39 18.35 2006