The table below details the hourly wages for Securities Agents, Investment Dealers and Brokers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 1113.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: securities trader, stock broker, investment dealer and foreign exchange dealer.
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 $32.30 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph, Listowel, Ontario at $15.74 per hour.
The largest sector of employment for securities agents, investment dealers and brokers is finance and insurance.
The average weekly earnings for the finance and insurance sector as a whole were $1093.14 in February 2011, a decrease of 0.8% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $1102.02.
Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $30.37.
Average Hourly Wages for
Securities Agents, Investment Dealers and Brokers in Canada
| Location |
Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta |
- |
28.50 |
- |
2011 |
| Edmonton and Area - Alberta* |
25.04 |
29.57 |
55.74 |
2009 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia |
13.11 |
21.64 |
32.78 |
2008/9 |
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| |
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| Winnipeg - Manitoba |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Fredericton - New Brunswick |
13.33 |
15.29 |
23.47 |
2005/6 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia |
22.20 |
32.30 |
60.40 |
2010 |
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| |
|
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| Toronto - Ontario |
16.89 |
27.13 |
46.90 |
2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario |
17.35 |
26.69 |
46.90 |
2010 |
| Windsor-Essex County - Ontario |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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| |
|
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| Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph, Listowel - Ontario |
12.78 |
15.74 |
20.71 |
2005 |
| Prince Edward Island |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Lanaudiere - Quebec |
17.00 |
24.25 |
31.25 |
2007 |
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| Saskatoon Area - Saskatchewan |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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* 5
th percentile, median, 95
th percentile bands used.