University Professor Salary Canada

Average Canadian University Professor's Salary :: University Professors' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for University Professors. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 4121.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: university professor, university lecturer, university visiting scholar and university instructor.

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 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan at $54.60 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Montreal, Quebec at $22.62 per hour.

The largest sector of employment for university professors 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
University Professors in Canada

Location Low Wage
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per hr
Average
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High Wage
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per hr

Year
Calgary / Banff / Drumheller - Alberta - 29.26 50.92 2007
Edmonton - Alberta 18.47 36.03 74.00 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 15.00 31.21 48.19 2008/9
Winnipeg - Manitoba 22.60 42.79 65.38 2010
Fredericton - New Brunswick 21.46 29.31 39.13 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 26.40 44.20 65.00 2010
Toronto - Ontario - 46.51 - 2010
Ottawa - Ontario - 41.08 - 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario - 39.58 - 2010
London / Woodstock Area - Ontario - 36.19 - 2010
Prince Edward Island 25.45 - 65.10 2011
Montreal - Quebec 15.84 22.62 31.07 2007
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 32.60 54.60 75.00 2010