High School Teacher Salary Canada

Average Canadian High School Teacher's Salary :: Secondary School Teachers' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for High School Teachers . The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 4141.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: secondary school teacher and high school teacher.

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 Fredericton, New Brunswick at $20.92 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for high school teachers is educational services. The average weekly earnings for the educational services sector as a whole were $964.59 in February 2011, an increase of 5.4% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $915.25. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $26.79.

Average Hourly Wages for
High School Teachers in Canada

Location Low Wage
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per hr
Average
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per hr
High Wage
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per hr

Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 23.30 32.44 48.08 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 14.43 29.26 50.44 2009
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 19.00 28.06 40.06 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 26.20 34.80 48.70 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 14.00 20.92 34.90 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 24.50 36.90 46.15 2010
Toronto - Ontario 21.70 32.93 45.43 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 21.70 31.24 44.70 2010
Windsor / Sarnia - Ontario 21.85 32.53 43.98 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 23.24 33.05 44.00 2010
Prince Edward Island 24.90 - 45.80 2011
Montreal - Quebec 19.50 30.00 39.75 2008
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 18.40 36.40 40.40 2010