Welder Salary Canada
Average Canadian Welders and Related Machine Operator's Salary :: Welders and Related Machine Operators' Wages in Canada
The table below details the hourly wages for Welders and Related Machine Operators. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 7265.Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: welder, brazer, electric arc welder, solderer, gas welder and machine welder.
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.
A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $40,000 - $55,000.
The largest sector of employment for welders and related machine operators is manufacturing. The average weekly earnings for the manufacturing sector as a whole were $1016.04 in January 2012, an increase of 2.4% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for January 2012 were $28.22.
Average Hourly Wages for Welders and Related Machine Operators in Canada
| Location | Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta | 16.95 | 27.97 | 37.63 | 2011 |
| Edmonton - Alberta | 18.54 | 28.97 | 40.33 | 2011 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia | 16.00 | 25.54 | 33.84 | 2011 |
| Winnipeg - Manitoba | 10.82 | 19.02 | 41.10 | 2011 |
| Fredericton - New Brunswick | 10.00 | 19.05 | 40.83 | 2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia | 13.00 | 23.65 | 30.20 | 2010 |
| Toronto - Ontario | 13.00 | 19.16 | 27.00 | 2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario | 12.85 | 19.45 | 33.50 | 2010 |
| Windsor / Sarnia - Ontario | 13.00 | 21.74 | 36.28 | 2010 |
| Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario | 14.25 | 20.32 | 29.62 | 2010 |
| Prince Edward Island | 10.80 | 18.12 | 40.00 | 2011 |
| Montreal - Quebec | 16.25 | 23.75 | 38.00 | 2008 |
| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan | 16.00 | 23.17 | 38.03 | 2011 |
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