NOC 2021 · 21120 · TEER 1
Public and environmental health and safety professionals
Unit group 21120 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Public and environmental health and safety professionals review, evaluate and monitor public health and environmental safety hazards and develop strategies to prevent, control and eliminate disease and environmental impact caused by biological and chemical factors. They inspect restaurants, industrial establishments, municipal water systems, public facilities and institutions to ensure compliance with government regulations regarding sanitation, pollution control and the handling and storage of hazardous substances. 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.
- beauty salon inspector
- dangerous goods inspector - railway transport
- dangerous waste inspector
- enforcement officer - environmental health
- environmental health and safety advisor
- environmental health and safety coordinator - public health and environmental safety
- environmental health inspector
- environmental health inspectors supervisor
- environmental health officer
- environmental health officers supervisor
- environmental officer
- environmental safety advisor
- environmental safety consultant
- environmental safety officer
- environmental safety specialist
- flood damage inspector
- food inspector
- hazardous waste inspector
- health standards inspector
- hotel and restaurant inspector - public health
- industrial waste control inspector
- mine examiner
- nursing home inspector
- pollution control inspector
- public health and safety coordinator
- public health inspector
- public health inspectors supervisor
- public health safety inspector
- public health unit supervisor
- public safety advisor
- public safety consultant
- public safety coordinator
- public safety officer
- public safety specialist
- quarantine officer - public health
- restaurant inspector
- rodent control inspector
- rodent control officer
- safety and sanitary inspector - public and environmental health
- sanitary department inspector - environmental health
- sanitary standards inspector
- sewage disposal inspector - environmental health
- waste water treatment plant inspector
- water inspector
- welfare institute inspector - public health
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.
Across Canada
$45.00 an hour
Low $29.33, high $56.41
Where it pays most
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$50.92
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$48.03
- Northwest · Ontario$46.56
- Toronto · Ontario$46.35
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$45.95
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
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $41.00 | $29.60 – $53.85 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $41.00 | $29.60 – $53.85 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $41.58 | $32.97 – $53.85 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $41.00 | $30.00 – $51.58 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $45.64 | $27.96 – $56.41 | Limited |
| Ontario | $46.67 | $31.40 – $65.93 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $36.00 | $25.05 – $46.70 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $39.18 | $23.00 – $46.78 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $45.43 | $28.78 – $67.18 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $45.00 | $32.97 – $64.10 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | $51.59 | $34.70 – $78.16 | Good |
| Northwest Territories | $58.30 | $39.24 – $80.41 | Very limited |
| Nunavut | $59.01 | $42.12 – $80.55 | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 55 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $44.16 | $32.00 – $74.60 | Undetermined |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $42.23 | $30.56 – $71.18 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $42.26 | $31.60 – $65.12 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $40.30 | $28.32 – $57.62 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $40.86 | $28.97 – $57.45 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $42.36 | $27.93 – $57.52 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $40.45 | $29.31 – $54.83 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $43.96 | $27.50 – $53.85 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $42.32 | $28.69 – $59.68 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $40.26 | $28.15 – $54.68 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $41.06 | $28.26 – $61.55 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $43.03 | $29.90 – $61.08 | Moderate |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $41.91 | $30.90 – $58.58 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $45.64 | $27.96 – $56.41 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $45.64 | $27.96 – $56.41 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $45.64 | $27.96 – $56.41 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $43.15 | $31.92 – $63.87 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $45.64 | $27.96 – $56.41 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $44.63 | $31.18 – $65.19 | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $45.64 | $27.96 – $56.41 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $45.64 | $27.96 – $56.41 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $46.35 | $30.78 – $64.41 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $44.57 | $30.37 – $64.41 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $45.53 | $31.03 – $65.46 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $45.04 | $31.63 – $64.11 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $45.60 | $31.85 – $63.93 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $46.56 | $31.71 – $64.07 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $35.90 | $22.00 – $41.44 | Limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $39.18 | $23.00 – $46.78 | Undetermined |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $39.18 | $23.00 – $46.78 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $39.18 | $23.00 – $46.78 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $39.18 | $23.00 – $46.78 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $48.03 | $31.99 – $70.99 | Undetermined |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $44.99 | $29.78 – $68.68 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $45.22 | $29.44 – $68.87 | Limited |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $44.99 | $28.66 – $67.00 | Limited |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $44.32 | $28.71 – $66.29 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $45.15 | $29.64 – $68.91 | Limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $50.92 | $35.30 – $78.27 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $45.95 | $31.51 – $64.98 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $45.00 | $34.36 – $64.10 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $45.00 | $32.97 – $64.10 | Limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $44.44 | $30.23 – $63.16 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $44.18 | $30.42 – $64.15 | 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.