NOC 2021 · 13110 · TEER 3

Administrative assistants

Unit group 13110 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

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What this group covers

Administrative assistants perform a variety of administrative duties in support of managerial and professional employers. They are employed throughout the public and private sectors.

Example job titles

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

administrative assistant
administrative assistant - office
administrative secretary
appointment secretary
church secretary
contracts secretary
executive secretary (except legal and medical)
finance secretary
human resources administrator
human resources administrator - Canadian Armed Forces
human resources secretary
loans and grants administrative assistant
office administrative assistant
personal secretary
private secretary
recording secretary
sales secretary
school secretary
secretary (except legal and medical)
secretary-clerk
taxation service secretary
technical secretary

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.

$26.44 an hour

Low $19.23, high $36.88

Where it pays most

Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$30.77
North Coast · British Columbia$29.14
Nechako · British Columbia$29.14
Outaouais · Quebec$29.00
Northeast · British Columbia$29.00

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	$26.37	$19.57 – $34.66	Moderate
Prince Edward Island	$26.67	$16.62 – $34.46	Moderate
Nova Scotia	$25.00	$18.30 – $35.58	Good
New Brunswick	$25.00	$17.79 – $35.44	Moderate
Quebec	$26.00	$20.00 – $36.06	Good
Ontario	$26.67	$19.00 – $37.95	Moderate
Manitoba	$24.32	$17.00 – $34.66	Moderate
Saskatchewan	$25.00	$18.20 – $34.80	Good
Alberta	$26.43	$19.78 – $37.00	Moderate
British Columbia	$28.50	$20.00 – $36.54	Moderate
Yukon Territory	$33.50	$23.08 – $39.49	Moderate
Northwest Territories	$36.00	$25.00 – $42.00	Moderate
Nunavut	$32.40	$24.62 – $48.72	Moderate

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	$27.00	$19.96 – $36.10	Moderate
South Coast--Burin Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$26.00	$17.00 – $28.00	Moderate
West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador	Newfoundland and Labrador	$26.37	$20.00 – $34.60	Moderate
Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay	Newfoundland and Labrador	$26.00	$17.00 – $28.00	Moderate
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	$26.78	$18.00 – $32.97	Good
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$23.76	$17.86 – $42.05	Good
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	$23.00	$17.78 – $32.17	Good
Southern	Nova Scotia	$25.00	$18.30 – $35.58	Good
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$25.33	$18.25 – $35.58	Good
Campbellton--Miramichi	New Brunswick	$25.00	$17.00 – $35.00	Moderate
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$25.64	$17.50 – $34.66	Moderate
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$25.00	$18.97 – $37.62	Moderate
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$25.64	$18.00 – $33.85	Moderate
Edmundston--Woodstock	New Brunswick	$23.71	$18.00 – $36.25	Moderate
Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Quebec	$25.00	$18.50 – $32.00	Moderate
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	$24.64	$19.00 – $30.00	Moderate
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$27.00	$20.00 – $34.00	Good
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$24.64	$20.00 – $31.73	Good
Estrie	Quebec	$25.00	$21.00 – $34.25	Good
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	$23.00	$18.75 – $31.00	Good
Montérégie	Quebec	$27.00	$20.00 – $38.50	Good
Montréal	Quebec	$26.42	$18.97 – $36.99	Good
Laval	Quebec	$25.00	$18.00 – $39.01	Good
Lanaudière	Quebec	$27.47	$23.00 – $35.00	Good
Laurentides	Quebec	$25.25	$20.00 – $31.50	Good
Outaouais	Quebec	$29.00	$22.00 – $40.00	Moderate
Abitibi-Témiscamingue	Quebec	$27.27	$21.50 – $47.34	Good
Mauricie	Quebec	$27.00	$20.00 – $33.33	Good
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	$25.00	$19.23 – $32.00	Good
Côte-Nord	Quebec	$26.41	$19.00 – $33.00	Moderate
Nord-du-Québec	Quebec	$26.41	$19.00 – $33.00	Moderate
Ottawa	Ontario	$28.85	$20.00 – $41.03	Moderate
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$26.67	$19.00 – $37.95	Moderate
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$26.81	$19.37 – $33.67	Moderate
Toronto	Ontario	$26.50	$19.00 – $38.46	Moderate
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$25.71	$19.23 – $34.62	Moderate
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$25.83	$20.00 – $35.74	Moderate
London	Ontario	$25.95	$18.00 – $34.62	Moderate
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$27.00	$18.00 – $35.71	Moderate
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$26.67	$19.00 – $37.95	Moderate
Northeast	Ontario	$27.00	$21.00 – $39.56	Moderate
Northwest	Ontario	$27.86	$20.00 – $37.36	Moderate
Southeast	Manitoba	$23.59	$16.73 – $30.22	Moderate
South Central	Manitoba	$21.52	$16.50 – $29.00	Moderate
Southwest	Manitoba	$23.00	$18.00 – $35.00	Good
North Central	Manitoba	$21.52	$16.50 – $29.00	Moderate
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$25.00	$18.00 – $36.92	Moderate
Interlake	Manitoba	$26.33	$19.73 – $34.81	Moderate
Parklands	Manitoba	$23.08	$19.00 – $27.47	Limited
North	Manitoba	$23.08	$19.00 – $27.47	Limited
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$25.00	$18.20 – $35.79	Good
Swift Current--Moose Jaw	Saskatchewan	$22.24	$15.35 – $31.00	Good
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$25.77	$18.50 – $33.92	Good
Yorkton--Melville	Saskatchewan	$22.65	$19.91 – $30.67	Good
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$25.00	$20.00 – $38.46	Moderate
Northern	Saskatchewan	$25.00	$20.00 – $38.46	Moderate
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$26.43	$20.00 – $40.38	Moderate
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$26.43	$19.78 – $37.00	Moderate
Calgary	Alberta	$26.43	$19.78 – $37.00	Moderate
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$25.27	$20.00 – $34.00	Moderate
Red Deer	Alberta	$26.43	$19.78 – $37.00	Moderate
Edmonton	Alberta	$26.74	$19.23 – $35.00	Moderate
Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River	Alberta	$25.27	$20.00 – $34.00	Moderate
Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake	Alberta	$30.77	$21.00 – $45.05	Limited
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$28.00	$20.00 – $36.69	Moderate
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$28.85	$20.00 – $36.06	Moderate
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$27.00	$19.00 – $31.82	Moderate
Kootenay	British Columbia	$28.50	$20.00 – $36.54	Moderate
Cariboo	British Columbia	$28.50	$20.00 – $36.54	Moderate
North Coast	British Columbia	$29.14	$24.04 – $45.00	Limited
Nechako	British Columbia	$29.14	$24.04 – $45.00	Limited
Northeast	British Columbia	$29.00	$24.00 – $40.66	Moderate

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.