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Average Hourly Wages for
Social Workers in Canada
| Location | Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Winnipeg - Manitoba | 9.51 | 26.03 | 41.93 | 2011 |
| Fredericton - New Brunswick | 18.00 | 25.61 | 34.39 | 2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia | 18.40 | 28.45 | 39.05 | 2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario | 18.00 | 27.87 | 40.31 | 2010 |
| London / Woodstock - Ontario | 17.90 | 29.88 | 38.92 | 2010 |
| Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario | 16.76 | 29.22 | 37.12 | 2010 |
| Prince Edward Island | 24.30 | 28.55 | 33.60 | 2010 |
| Montreal - Quebec | 20.50 | 27.50 | 37.75 | 2008 |
| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan | 17.76 | 27.88 | 38.84 | 2011 |
| Toronto - Ontario | 19.90 | 31.19 | 41.60 | 2010 |
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta | 16.00 | 28.90 | 44.51 | 2010 |
| Edmonton - Alberta | 15.34 | 28.09 | 43.58 | 2009 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia | 11.71 | 25.84 | 36.70 | 2009 |
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The table above details the hourly wages for Social Workers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 4152.
Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: social worker, certified social worker and registered social worker.
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 Toronto, Ontario at $31.19 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $25.61 per hour.
The largest sector of employment for social workers is health care and social assistance. The average weekly earnings for the health care and social assistance sector as a whole were $800.90 in February 2011, an increase of 3.3% on the previous year when average weekly earnings were $775.57. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for February 2011 were $22.25.