Payroll Clerk Salary Canada

Average Canadian Payroll Clerk's Salary :: Payroll Clerks' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Payroll Clerks. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1432.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: payroll clerk, payroll officer and pay advisor.

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 $25.20 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $15 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for payroll clerks is manufacturing. The average weekly earnings for the manufacturing sector as a whole were $995.11 in February 2011, an increase of 3.7% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $959.83. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $27.64.

Average Hourly Wages for
Payroll Clerks in Canada

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 / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 14.00 18.40 25.24 2008
Edmonton - Alberta* 19.49 25.20 26.15 2009
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 14.90 20.58 26.61 2006/7
Winnipeg - Manitoba 10.90 17.10 24.24 2004
Fredericton - New Brunswick 14.00 20.83 30.38 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 12.25 20.00 28.10 2010
Toronto - Ontario 16.00 21.66 28.00 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 16.36 22.63 28.94 2010
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford - Ontario 15.75 20.38 25.40 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 14.92 19.45 22.65 2010
Prince Edward Island 11.75 15.75 19.80 2009
Montreal - Quebec 11.00 15.00 20.50 2007
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 16.00 19.42 22.09 2006





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