NOC 2021 · 12200 · TEER 2

Accounting technicians and bookkeepers

Unit group 12200 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

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What this group covers

Accounting technicians and bookkeepers maintain complete sets of books, keep records of accounts, verify the procedures used for recording financial transactions, and provide personal bookkeeping services. They are employed throughout the private and public sectors, or they may be self-employed.

Example job titles

As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.

accounting bookkeeper
accounting technician
bookkeeper
bookkeeping clerk
budget officer
finance officer
finance technician
financial officer
financial services administrator - Canadian Armed Forces
senior bookkeeper

What it pays, and where it is hiring

Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.

$28.02 an hour

Low $19.55, high $45.07

Where it pays most

Ottawa · Ontario$32.93
Outaouais · Quebec$32.56
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$30.56
Edmonton · Alberta$30.45
Red Deer · Alberta$30.20

Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.

By province and territory

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by province and territory.
Where	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Newfoundland and Labrador	$25.00	$17.00 – $40.00	Good
Prince Edward Island	$25.00	$16.50 – $39.42	Good
Nova Scotia	$24.04	$16.50 – $38.00	Good
New Brunswick	$25.00	$16.00 – $40.00	Good
Quebec	$28.02	$20.25 – $43.75	Very good
Ontario	$28.50	$19.23 – $46.15	Good
Manitoba	$25.00	$17.00 – $40.85	Moderate
Saskatchewan	$27.16	$18.00 – $43.27	Good
Alberta	$30.00	$20.00 – $50.96	Good
British Columbia	$28.00	$19.44 – $47.45	Moderate
Yukon Territory	$42.00	$30.00 – $48.12	Moderate
Northwest Territories	$41.03	$27.00 – $50.90	Very good
Nunavut	$43.00	$25.86 – $50.30	Good

By economic region

The 72 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by economic region.
Where	Province	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Avalon Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$25.36	$19.00 – $38.46	Good
South Coast--Burin Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$25.64	$17.75 – $39.44	Good
West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador	Newfoundland and Labrador	$26.52	$18.98 – $42.09	Good
Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay	Newfoundland and Labrador	$25.00	$17.00 – $40.00	Good
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	$23.50	$17.00 – $42.50	Good
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$21.63	$16.50 – $34.62	Good
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	$25.00	$16.50 – $60.00	Good
Southern	Nova Scotia	$23.00	$16.50 – $26.92	Good
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$24.04	$16.50 – $38.00	Good
Campbellton--Miramichi	New Brunswick	$25.00	$17.17 – $45.66	Good
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$25.00	$18.00 – $40.00	Very good
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$22.84	$16.00 – $38.31	Very good
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$25.00	$15.65 – $41.25	Very good
Edmundston--Woodstock	New Brunswick	$23.08	$16.00 – $38.46	Good
Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Quebec	$28.00	$22.00 – $37.88	Good
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	$26.26	$20.51 – $43.96	Very good
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$26.50	$20.00 – $40.00	Very good
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$28.00	$21.50 – $36.06	Very good
Estrie	Quebec	$27.18	$22.50 – $34.69	Very good
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	$27.50	$20.00 – $46.15	Very good
Montérégie	Quebec	$28.02	$21.00 – $36.81	Very good
Montréal	Quebec	$30.00	$20.00 – $47.98	Very good
Laval	Quebec	$28.85	$20.00 – $51.28	Very good
Lanaudière	Quebec	$26.44	$20.00 – $45.00	Very good
Laurentides	Quebec	$29.83	$22.00 – $43.96	Very good
Outaouais	Quebec	$32.56	$23.43 – $44.76	Good
Abitibi-Témiscamingue	Quebec	$28.02	$20.25 – $43.75	Very good
Mauricie	Quebec	$26.44	$21.63 – $31.00	Very good
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	$28.02	$20.25 – $43.75	Very good
Côte-Nord	Quebec	$28.02	$20.25 – $43.75	Good
Nord-du-Québec	Quebec	$28.02	$20.25 – $43.75	Good
Ottawa	Ontario	$32.93	$21.54 – $50.98	Good
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$26.66	$22.00 – $80.77	Good
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$25.00	$20.00 – $87.02	Very good
Toronto	Ontario	$29.22	$18.00 – $47.36	Good
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$27.00	$19.00 – $43.27	Very good
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$29.65	$20.00 – $43.00	Very good
London	Ontario	$25.00	$20.00 – $34.62	Good
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$25.00	$17.60 – $42.79	Good
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$29.09	$20.50 – $47.33	Very good
Northeast	Ontario	$27.00	$18.46 – $45.67	Good
Northwest	Ontario	$25.53	$19.00 – $36.53	Good
Southeast	Manitoba	$25.00	$18.00 – $40.85	Good
South Central	Manitoba	$25.23	$20.00 – $35.82	Moderate
Southwest	Manitoba	$27.89	$19.79 – $41.64	Good
North Central	Manitoba	$25.23	$20.00 – $35.82	Moderate
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$25.00	$16.00 – $41.21	Moderate
Interlake	Manitoba	$25.00	$17.00 – $40.85	Moderate
Parklands	Manitoba	$27.72	$19.79 – $40.36	Moderate
North	Manitoba	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$27.16	$18.00 – $43.27	Good
Swift Current--Moose Jaw	Saskatchewan	$26.00	$17.00 – $38.46	Good
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$26.92	$20.00 – $41.03	Good
Yorkton--Melville	Saskatchewan	$28.80	$19.28 – $40.62	Good
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$26.44	$20.00 – $42.85	Good
Northern	Saskatchewan	$26.44	$20.00 – $42.85	Good
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$30.56	$20.69 – $46.30	Good
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$29.53	$20.10 – $45.13	Good
Calgary	Alberta	$30.00	$18.00 – $53.85	Good
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$28.50	$19.23 – $57.69	Good
Red Deer	Alberta	$30.20	$20.31 – $47.95	Good
Edmonton	Alberta	$30.45	$20.00 – $45.00	Good
Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River	Alberta	$28.50	$19.23 – $57.69	Good
Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake	Alberta	$30.07	$20.97 – $51.83	Good
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$28.00	$20.00 – $57.69	Good
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$28.85	$20.00 – $45.00	Moderate
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$28.00	$18.00 – $57.69	Moderate
Kootenay	British Columbia	$25.00	$18.00 – $50.00	Good
Cariboo	British Columbia	$28.00	$23.08 – $35.00	Moderate
North Coast	British Columbia	$28.00	$18.00 – $44.23	Good
Nechako	British Columbia	$28.00	$18.00 – $44.23	Good
Northeast	British Columbia	$26.50	$22.00 – $42.31	Good

Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.

The estimates on this page come from Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024).

Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.

Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.

Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.