Police Officer Salary Canada (Except Commissioned)

Average Canadian Police Officer's Salary :: Police Officers' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Police Officers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 6261.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: police officer, royal canadian mounted police (RCMP) officer, highway patrol officer, detective and patrol 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 Halifax, Nova Scotia at $36.90 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $19.25 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $60,000 - $70,000.

The largest sector of employment for police officers is public administration. The average weekly earnings for the public administration sector as a whole were $1136.19 in January 2012, an increase of 2.4% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for January 2012 are $31.56.

Average Hourly Wages for Police Officers in Canada

Location Low Wage
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per hr
Average
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High Wage
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Year
Calgary - Alberta* 28.33 34.14 34.14 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 21.00 30.16 38.91 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 22.14 34.00 39.00 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 20.70 26.40 37.70 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 18.00 28.04 38.09 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 22.45 36.90 48.05 2010
Toronto - Ontario 24.29 36.47 42.30 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 26.65 35.67 40.76 2010
London / Woodstock - Ontario 16.94 32.02 39.97 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 25.82 35.37 41.52 2010
Prince Edward Island 20.90 22.50 36.25 2010
Montreal - Quebec 14.50 19.25 35.00 2008
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 20.90 31.10 41.40 2010





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