NOC 2021 · 21310 · TEER 1
Electrical and electronics engineers
Unit group 21310 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Electrical and electronics engineers design, plan, research, evaluate and test electrical and electronic equipment and systems. They are employed by electrical utilities, communications companies, manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment, consulting firms, and by a wide range of manufacturing, processing and transportation industries and government.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- analog and mixed-signal design engineer
- antenna engineer
- audio engineer - electricity and electronics
- automation engineer - electrical and electronic systems
- avionics engineer
- broadcasting professional engineer
- chief electrical engineer
- chief electronics engineer
- chief engineer - electric power
- chief engineer - radio and television broadcasting
- circuit design engineer
- control systems engineer
- design and development engineer - electrical and electronic systems
- digital circuit design engineer
- displays and controls design engineer
- electrical and electronics research engineer
- electrical controls engineer
- electrical design engineer
- electrical distribution engineer
- electrical distribution planning engineer
- electrical energy transmission engineer
- electrical energy transmission planning engineer
- electrical engineer
- electrical engineering lead
- electrical engineering project manager
- electrical equipment engineer
- electrical network engineer
- electrical power scheduling engineer
- electrical power systems design engineer
- electrical power systems service engineer
- electrical process control engineer
- electrical project engineer
- electrical research engineer
- electrical systems planning engineer
- electrical systems protection engineer
- electronics engineer
- electronics research engineer
- electronics test engineer
- instrumentation and control engineer
- instrumentation engineer
- line construction engineer
- low voltage equipment engineer
- meter engineer
- metrology engineer
- microelectronics engineer
- overhead electrical distribution engineer
- process instrumentation engineer
- protective relay engineer
- radar engineer
- radio and television broadcasting design engineer
- radio and television broadcasting systems design engineer
- radio research engineer
- research engineer - nanoelectronics
- roadway lighting design engineer
- rural electrification engineer
- satellite antenna engineer
- satellite instrumentation engineer
- signal engineer
- spacecraft electronics engineer
- technical services electrical engineer
- television systems engineer
- underground electrical distribution engineer
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
$50.67 an hour
Low $33.65, high $79.23
Where it pays most
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$62.50
- Swift Current--Moose Jaw · Saskatchewan$59.12
- Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$56.00
- Ottawa · Ontario$55.29
- Mauricie · Quebec$55.00
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
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $50.00 | $38.46 – $72.12 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $46.15 | $25.00 – $84.13 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $47.18 | $31.66 – $64.96 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $50.00 | $31.73 – $73.08 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $53.85 | $35.00 – $78.21 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $50.00 | $33.65 – $82.42 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $48.00 | $29.00 – $67.31 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $56.00 | $35.10 – $75.48 | Good |
| Alberta | $50.00 | $35.00 – $76.92 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $48.08 | $31.25 – $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 49 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 | $50.00 | $40.00 – $72.12 | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $49.97 | $34.99 – $77.57 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $45.71 | $33.42 – $65.12 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $46.60 | $31.25 – $64.96 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $45.52 | $29.31 – $66.25 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $52.50 | $32.39 – $79.86 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $49.98 | $32.35 – $70.61 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $47.26 | $31.65 – $63.42 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $50.59 | $33.68 – $72.10 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $49.97 | $33.94 – $69.74 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $48.08 | $25.00 – $71.43 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $48.48 | $33.47 – $66.55 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $52.78 | $35.15 – $76.71 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $50.77 | $35.00 – $78.00 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $51.76 | $35.61 – $75.15 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $50.45 | $35.38 – $73.17 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $52.54 | $35.21 – $76.11 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $53.85 | $41.17 – $96.15 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $51.58 | $38.45 – $73.44 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $55.00 | $35.71 – $81.34 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $50.60 | $25.00 – $65.00 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $55.29 | $34.62 – $76.92 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $47.50 | $33.33 – $78.85 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $51.75 | $34.28 – $76.35 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $51.28 | $34.30 – $87.95 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $49.69 | $32.27 – $69.26 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $50.00 | $33.65 – $82.42 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $51.60 | $34.15 – $78.01 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $51.75 | $33.44 – $79.86 | Limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $51.19 | $34.65 – $78.95 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $49.24 | $34.24 – $70.96 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $52.88 | $29.00 – $71.43 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $49.61 | $34.13 – $69.20 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $62.50 | $36.92 – $103.85 | Good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $59.12 | $37.88 – $84.98 | Very good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $56.00 | $35.10 – $63.00 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $48.72 | $33.65 – $91.83 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $45.79 | $36.50 – $65.00 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $49.33 | $34.67 – $71.53 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $50.67 | $30.77 – $80.00 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $49.55 | $34.20 – $75.25 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $52.12 | $37.85 – $77.89 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $51.12 | $37.21 – $74.37 | 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.