NOC 2021 · 21331 · TEER 1
Geological engineers
Unit group 21331 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Geological engineers conduct geological and geotechnical studies to assess suitability of locations for civil engineering, mining and oil and gas projects; and plan, design, develop and supervise programs of geological data acquisition and analysis and the preparation of geological engineering reports and recommendations. They are employed in consulting engineering companies, electrical utilities, mining and petroleum companies and in government and research and educational institutions.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- geological engineer
- geophysical engineer
- geotechnical engineer
- hydrogeological engineer - engineering
- hydrogeology engineer
- supervising engineer - petrography
- supervising engineer - rock sciences
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
$49.81 an hour
Low $31.27, high $83.24
Where it pays most
- Halifax · Nova Scotia$61.93
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$57.15
- Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$55.38
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$54.21
- Fredericton--Oromocto · New Brunswick$50.72
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 | $53.89 | $41.42 – $74.83 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $60.63 | $37.89 – $88.52 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $48.81 | $36.15 – $71.94 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $48.84 | $31.94 – $70.51 | Good |
| Ontario | $45.00 | $25.45 – $52.88 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $44.86 | $30.36 – $72.68 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $52.45 | $31.61 – $86.51 | Good |
| Alberta | $52.81 | $33.17 – $83.81 | Good |
| British Columbia | $53.98 | $34.99 – $87.38 | 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 19 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $61.93 | $40.67 – $92.41 | Undetermined |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $50.72 | $34.69 – $71.77 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $49.33 | $34.42 – $72.10 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $47.87 | $31.39 – $72.25 | Very good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $47.14 | $31.38 – $70.28 | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $50.22 | $33.49 – $71.75 | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $45.89 | $32.51 – $71.04 | Undetermined |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $50.25 | $35.61 – $79.83 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $47.42 | $32.92 – $70.20 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $48.98 | $34.83 – $70.98 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $45.62 | $34.18 – $68.94 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $45.29 | $26.03 – $65.55 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $55.38 | $38.70 – $86.63 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $50.43 | $32.09 – $83.23 | Good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $54.21 | $36.66 – $82.76 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $57.15 | $41.10 – $95.83 | 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 Small Area Estimation (2024) · Labour Force Survey (2023-2024).
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.