Real Estate Agents and Salespersons - Canada Salary and Wage Guide

Average Canadian Real Estate Agents and Salesperson's Salary :: Real Estate Agents and Salespersons' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Real Estate Agents and Salespersons. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 6232.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: real estate agent, real estate broker, commercial real estate salesperson and residential real estate agent.

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 $39.41 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $15 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $55,000 - $75,000.

The largest sector of employment for real estate agents and salespersons is real estate and rental and leasing. The average weekly earnings for the real estate and rental and leasing sector as a whole were $849.67 in January 2012, an increase of 2.3% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for January 2012 were $23.12.

Average Hourly Wages for
Real Estate Agents and Salespersons in Canada

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