Purchasing Agent Salary Canada
Average Canadian Purchasing Agents and Officer's Salary :: Purchasing Agents and Officers' Wages in Canada
The table below details the hourly wages for Purchasing Agents and Officers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1225.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: purchasing agent, procurement officer and contracts officer.
The pay information below has been split into rough bands as follows:
According to the latest figures, the highest hourly average wages are earned in Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House, Alberta at $30.78 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Centre-du-Quebec Region, Quebec at $18.43.
The largest sector of employment for purchasing agents and officers 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
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: purchasing agent, procurement officer and contracts 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 Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House, Alberta at $30.78 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Centre-du-Quebec Region, Quebec at $18.43.
The largest sector of employment for purchasing agents and officers 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
Purchasing Agents and Officers in Canada
| Location | Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta | 15.00 | 30.78 | 66.00 | 2010 |
| Edmonton - Alberta | 17.95 | 26.18 | 40.31 | 2011 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia | 17.00 | 23.33 | 32.44 | 2011 |
| Winnipeg - Manitoba | 15.19 | 23.89 | 34.09 | 2009 |
| Saint John / Sussex/ St. Stephen - New Brunswick | 14.00 | 20.00 | 33.00 | 2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia | 12.55 | 20.00 | 30.25 | 2010 |
| Toronto - Ontario | 15.99 | 23.81 | 34.27 | 2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario | 18.30 | 28.26 | 39.00 | 2010 |
| Windsor / Sarnia - Ontario | 15.00 | 22.54 | 39.87 | 2010 |
| Kitchener/ Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario | 16.00 | 22.60 | 31.49 | 2010 |
| Prince Edward Island | 13.00 | - | 27.75 | 2010 |
| Centre-du-Quebec Region - Quebec | 13.25 | 18.43 | 29.50 | 2007 |
| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan | 12.60 | 23.60 | 37.50 | 2010 |
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