Psychologist Salary Canada

Average Canadian Psychologist's Salary :: Psychologists' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Psychologists. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 4151.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: psychologist, behavioural therapist and clinical psychologist.

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 / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House, Alberta at $37.28 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $21.03 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for psychologists 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
Psychologists 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 15.31 37.28 54.69 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 13.81 36.62 49.81 2008
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 15.00 29.67 50.00 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 14.42 32.21 50.25 2004
Fredericton - New Brunswick 11.00 29.99 40.72 2007/8
Halifax - Nova Scotia 24.70 36.50 47.00 2010
Toronto - Ontario 18.00 32.11 46.79 2010
Hamilton - Ontario 19.64 28.46 46.16 2007
Ontario 17.44 29.75 47.66 2010
Waterloo Region / Huron / Perth / Wellington / Dufferin - Ontario 18.37 24.78 36.00 2007
Prince Edward Island - - - -
Montreal - Quebec 14.23 21.03 27.95 -
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 20.00 35.68 37.31 2006