NOC 2021 · 21203 · TEER 1
Land surveyors
Unit group 21203 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Land surveyors plan, direct and conduct legal surveys to establish the location of real property boundaries, contours and other natural or human-made features, and prepare and maintain cross-sectional drawings, official plans, records and documents pertaining to these surveys. They are employed by federal, provincial and municipal governments, private sector land surveying establishments, real estate development, natural resource, engineering and construction firms, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- cadastral surveyor
- Canada lands surveyor
- city surveyor
- commissioned land surveyor
- country surveyor
- land survey supervisor
- land surveying party chief
- land surveyor
- legal surveyor
- pipeline surveyor
- port surveyor
- professional land surveyor
- property surveyor
- provincial land surveyor
- railway surveyor
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
$42.20 an hour
Low $29.00, high $60.51
Where it pays most
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$48.93
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$48.08
- Red Deer · Alberta$47.48
- Bas-Saint-Laurent · Quebec$43.32
- Kootenay · British Columbia$42.91
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 | $39.88 | $22.60 – $51.16 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $36.06 | $30.00 – $63.94 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $39.92 | $25.73 – $67.47 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $40.06 | $30.00 – $51.00 | Limited |
| Ontario | $39.36 | $26.54 – $62.08 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $41.23 | $26.81 – $65.31 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Alberta | $48.53 | $26.00 – $61.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $40.87 | $35.00 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | $46.75 | $35.12 – $63.86 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 48 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 | $39.88 | $22.60 – $51.16 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $38.15 | $29.92 – $58.21 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $36.07 | $27.54 – $56.67 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $38.30 | $27.13 – $52.21 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $43.32 | $29.44 – $59.87 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $42.17 | $29.42 – $60.90 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $41.46 | $29.11 – $59.31 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $42.19 | $28.64 – $58.60 | Undetermined |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $40.30 | $29.29 – $58.69 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $42.78 | $30.89 – $62.78 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $42.43 | $29.60 – $62.39 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $39.67 | $29.10 – $59.77 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $40.00 | $28.47 – $54.60 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $39.44 | $27.97 – $58.10 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $42.43 | $30.74 – $64.66 | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $41.76 | $30.26 – $62.36 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $40.60 | $30.42 – $61.00 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $42.71 | $31.59 – $62.36 | Very limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $38.39 | $27.83 – $59.42 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $36.40 | $27.54 – $55.19 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $38.64 | $29.11 – $61.93 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $39.89 | $28.37 – $60.34 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $39.16 | $28.57 – $59.80 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $39.15 | $28.45 – $57.86 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $36.29 | $26.40 – $53.63 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $37.75 | $27.75 – $59.83 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $36.45 | $26.97 – $54.45 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $37.74 | $28.19 – $59.27 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $39.91 | $28.76 – $62.90 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $41.91 | $28.83 – $61.81 | Undetermined |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $48.93 | $34.09 – $74.96 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $47.48 | $32.02 – $72.33 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $48.08 | $43.00 – $60.44 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $40.87 | $35.00 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $40.87 | $35.00 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $40.87 | $35.00 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $42.91 | $30.29 – $78.73 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $41.42 | $31.63 – $62.63 | 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) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (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.