Human Resources Officer Salary Canada

Average Canadian Human Resources, Personnel and Recruitment Officer's Salary :: Human Resources, Personnel and Recruitment Officers' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Personnel and Recruitment Officers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1223.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: human resources officer, personnel officer and recruitment officer.

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 $27.28 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $15.18 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for personnel and recruitment officers is professional, scientific and technical services. The average weekly earnings for the professional, scientific and technical services sector as a whole were $1229.26 in February 2011, an increase of 5.9% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1161.04. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $34.15.

Average Hourly Wages for
Human Resources, Personnel and Recruitment Officers in Canada

Location Low Wage
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High Wage
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Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 12.00 26.70 68.82 2010
Edmonton - Alberta 13.50 27.28 47.94 2010
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 14.00 19.62 35.00 2008/9
Winnipeg - Manitoba 15.10 24.18 28.85 2009
Fredericton - New Brunswick 14.42 15.18 20.07 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 13.60 21.85 32.50 2010
Toronto - Ontario 14.46 22.61 35.20 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 14.85 25.50 37.15 2009
Hamilton / Niagara Peninsula / Brantford - Ontario 13.00 20.24 34.61 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 12.00 19.56 26.30 2010
Prince Edward Island - - - -
Montreal - Quebec 10.37 18.54 29.28 2006
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 11.40 19.44 27.39 2006