Teacher Assistant Salary Canada

Average Canadian School Teacher Assistant's Salary :: School Teacher Assistants' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for School Teacher Assistants. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 6472.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: teacher's aide, teaching assistant, lunch room supervisor, special programs aide and educational resources assistant.

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 Windsor / Sarnia, Ontario at $22.20 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Halifax, Nova Scotia at $16.25 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $32,000 - $42,000.

The largest sector of employment for school teacher assistants is educational services. The average weekly earnings for the educational services sector as a whole were $965.86 in January 2012, an increase of 0.2% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for January 2012 were $26.83.

Average Hourly Wages for School Teacher Assistants in Canada

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