NOC 2021 · 14403 · TEER 4

Purchasing and inventory control workers

Unit group 14403 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

Express Entry’s programs draw from TEER 0 to 3, so this group is outside them. Provincial streams and other programs have their own rules.

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What this group covers

Purchasing and inventory control workers process purchasing transactions and maintain inventories of materials, equipment and stock. They are employed by retail and wholesale establishments, manufacturing companies, government agencies and other establishments.

Example job titles

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

equipment inventory clerk
food and beverage control clerk - inventory
food controller - inventory
inventory analyst
inventory auditor
inventory clerk
inventory control clerk
inventory planner
invoice and purchase order checker
invoice control clerk
liquor controller - inventory
permanent inventory clerk
printing plates order clerk
procurement clerk
purchase order clerk
purchasing clerk
purchasing clerk assistant
purchasing control clerk
ship supply clerk
supply clerk
supply technician - Canadian Armed Forces

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.

$24.00 an hour

Low $17.50, high $36.06

Where it pays most

North Coast · British Columbia$28.49
Cariboo · British Columbia$28.45
Abitibi-Témiscamingue · Quebec$27.28
Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$27.01
Côte-Nord · Quebec$26.71

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	$23.00	$16.00 – $30.92	Moderate
Prince Edward Island	$21.00	$21.00 – $28.37	Moderate
Nova Scotia	$22.00	$16.50 – $28.50	Moderate
New Brunswick	$23.00	$16.75 – $40.46	Moderate
Quebec	$23.50	$17.50 – $45.60	Limited
Ontario	$23.67	$17.60 – $35.00	Limited
Manitoba	$22.00	$16.00 – $30.77	Limited
Saskatchewan	$25.00	$20.00 – $36.06	Good
Alberta	$24.00	$17.00 – $33.65	Moderate
British Columbia	$25.00	$18.65 – $37.00	Limited
Yukon Territory	Not published	Not published	Undetermined
Northwest Territories	Not published	Not published	Undetermined
Nunavut	Not published	Not published	Undetermined

By economic region

The 62 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	$22.19	$16.00 – $29.75	Moderate
South Coast--Burin Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$22.69	$16.50 – $29.82	Moderate
West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador	Newfoundland and Labrador	$23.52	$16.71 – $34.19	Moderate
Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay	Newfoundland and Labrador	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	$22.69	$17.37 – $30.05	Moderate
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$22.00	$16.50 – $37.02	Moderate
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	$23.17	$19.20 – $29.81	Moderate
Southern	Nova Scotia	$24.57	$19.94 – $32.57	Moderate
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$21.63	$16.50 – $28.02	Moderate
Campbellton--Miramichi	New Brunswick	$22.92	$18.68 – $28.42	Undetermined
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$23.33	$17.46 – $42.29	Moderate
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$22.20	$18.24 – $30.85	Moderate
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	$25.71	$19.16 – $35.48	Moderate
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$24.74	$18.57 – $33.92	Limited
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$24.36	$19.60 – $33.29	Limited
Estrie	Quebec	$25.43	$18.22 – $32.84	Limited
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	$24.12	$18.99 – $31.35	Limited
Montérégie	Quebec	$25.00	$17.50 – $53.33	Limited
Montréal	Quebec	$24.04	$20.00 – $32.00	Limited
Laval	Quebec	$25.66	$21.08 – $34.82	Limited
Lanaudière	Quebec	$25.92	$20.11 – $37.03	Limited
Laurentides	Quebec	$25.49	$19.68 – $35.34	Moderate
Outaouais	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Limited
Abitibi-Témiscamingue	Quebec	$27.28	$22.00 – $37.01	Undetermined
Mauricie	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	$25.43	$23.37 – $32.21	Limited
Côte-Nord	Quebec	$26.71	$21.00 – $38.60	Undetermined
Ottawa	Ontario	$23.67	$17.60 – $35.00	Limited
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$23.67	$17.60 – $35.00	Moderate
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$23.67	$17.60 – $35.00	Limited
Toronto	Ontario	$23.67	$17.60 – $35.00	Limited
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$22.50	$17.60 – $26.74	Limited
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$23.67	$17.60 – $35.00	Limited
London	Ontario	$22.84	$20.40 – $34.00	Moderate
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$23.77	$19.11 – $33.95	Limited
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$23.67	$17.60 – $35.00	Moderate
Northeast	Ontario	$23.50	$17.60 – $30.00	Limited
Northwest	Ontario	$24.11	$18.47 – $37.08	Undetermined
Southeast	Manitoba	$21.49	$18.41 – $27.54	Limited
South Central	Manitoba	$21.75	$18.91 – $27.56	Undetermined
Southwest	Manitoba	$19.77	$16.98 – $29.88	Undetermined
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$21.63	$16.00 – $38.00	Limited
Interlake	Manitoba	$20.57	$17.14 – $25.49	Undetermined
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$23.00	$20.60 – $37.00	Moderate
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$25.00	$20.00 – $36.06	Good
Yorkton--Melville	Saskatchewan	$22.88	$17.98 – $28.10	Undetermined
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$25.32	$19.61 – $34.67	Moderate
Northern	Saskatchewan	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$24.00	$17.00 – $33.65	Moderate
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$24.00	$17.00 – $33.65	Moderate
Calgary	Alberta	$25.38	$17.00 – $28.85	Moderate
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$24.70	$19.65 – $35.79	Moderate
Red Deer	Alberta	$23.75	$18.71 – $32.26	Undetermined
Edmonton	Alberta	$24.00	$18.13 – $43.00	Moderate
Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River	Alberta	$24.00	$17.00 – $33.65	Moderate
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$25.00	$17.85 – $30.00	Limited
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$25.00	$19.00 – $37.00	Limited
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$27.01	$21.10 – $36.31	Moderate
Kootenay	British Columbia	$24.81	$19.90 – $30.14	Undetermined
Cariboo	British Columbia	$28.45	$21.31 – $38.33	Undetermined
North Coast	British Columbia	$28.49	$22.00 – $37.35	Undetermined

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.