NOC 2021 · 21301 · TEER 1
Mechanical engineers
Unit group 21301 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Mechanical engineers research, design and develop machinery and systems for heating, ventilating and air conditioning, power generation, transportation, processing and manufacturing. They also perform duties related to the evaluation, installation, operation and maintenance of mechanical systems. They are employed by consulting firms, by power-generating utilities and in a wide range of manufacturing, processing and transportation industries, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- acoustical engineer
- acoustics and vibration engineer
- acoustics engineer
- automotive engineer
- building systems engineer
- building systems engineering project manager
- chief mechanical engineer
- consulting mechanical engineer
- cryogenics engineer
- design engineer - mechanical
- diesel engineer - design and research
- energy conservation engineer
- fluid mechanics engineer
- gas utilization mechanical engineer
- heating specialist engineer
- heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) engineer
- internal combustion engineer
- lubrication engineer
- maintenance engineering lead - mechanical
- marine mechanical engineer
- mechanical design engineer
- mechanical engineer
- mechanical engineering lead
- mechanical engineering project manager
- mechanical hydraulic engineer
- mechanical maintenance engineer
- mechanical power engineer
- mechatronic engineer
- micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) research engineer
- mould design engineer
- nuclear design engineer
- nuclear engineer
- nuclear operations engineer
- oil well equipment design engineer
- pattern engineer
- piping engineer
- power generation engineer
- power plant engineer
- project engineer - building systems
- project mechanical engineer
- refrigeration engineer
- robotics engineer
- thermal design engineer
- thermal power engineer
- tool engineer
- tribologist
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
$45.67 an hour
Low $30.00, high $72.49
Where it pays most
- Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$54.76
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$54.28
- Red Deer · Alberta$53.80
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$53.71
- Calgary · Alberta$52.88
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 | $47.31 | $35.00 – $75.00 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $43.86 | $27.90 – $66.03 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $45.67 | $31.25 – $82.05 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $44.00 | $30.00 – $66.83 | Limited |
| Ontario | $46.42 | $30.45 – $72.49 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $42.82 | $28.20 – $65.23 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $50.00 | $33.65 – $64.90 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $52.88 | $33.65 – $96.15 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $43.27 | $32.00 – $72.12 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 61 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 | $47.31 | $37.23 – $86.54 | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $43.68 | $28.51 – $62.57 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $45.90 | $31.67 – $68.98 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $45.15 | $32.68 – $64.71 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $45.01 | $29.11 – $64.55 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $42.22 | $29.46 – $66.32 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $41.90 | $30.31 – $63.54 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $49.90 | $34.62 – $77.88 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $45.44 | $31.97 – $76.38 | Moderate |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $41.99 | $30.18 – $61.67 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $44.78 | $31.23 – $66.02 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $43.74 | $30.38 – $64.10 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $50.77 | $30.00 – $70.51 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $44.61 | $31.26 – $65.68 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $45.58 | $31.70 – $62.65 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $46.29 | $32.24 – $68.20 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $44.52 | $30.43 – $66.39 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $47.76 | $33.19 – $69.84 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $47.45 | $33.28 – $69.30 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $48.10 | $32.46 – $71.44 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $50.34 | $35.90 – $72.85 | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $47.82 | $31.47 – $70.19 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $46.55 | $33.41 – $67.80 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $50.26 | $30.00 – $65.38 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $48.92 | $33.00 – $73.09 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $49.62 | $33.74 – $77.53 | Limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $49.34 | $33.05 – $75.43 | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $46.15 | $31.25 – $72.68 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $46.09 | $31.02 – $71.42 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $43.27 | $26.92 – $67.00 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $41.03 | $25.18 – $111.78 | Very limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $49.04 | $28.50 – $75.00 | Limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | $48.09 | $32.09 – $71.56 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $47.60 | $32.98 – $72.21 | Limited |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $44.59 | $30.44 – $70.15 | Undetermined |
| South Central | Manitoba | $40.57 | $26.57 – $64.04 | Moderate |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $41.02 | $29.74 – $66.64 | Undetermined |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $42.71 | $28.88 – $64.28 | Limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $47.35 | $36.03 – $75.35 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $53.71 | $33.16 – $83.60 | Moderate |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $43.27 | $33.65 – $69.00 | Moderate |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $48.50 | $30.73 – $71.70 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $52.69 | $32.92 – $80.62 | Undetermined |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $54.76 | $35.73 – $85.64 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $52.88 | $36.06 – $100.00 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $54.28 | $36.25 – $84.40 | Limited |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $53.80 | $33.84 – $85.35 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $52.53 | $20.00 – $76.92 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $47.53 | $32.21 – $72.07 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $43.27 | $32.31 – $72.12 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $44.90 | $31.75 – $68.33 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $45.77 | $31.79 – $69.78 | 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.