NOC 2021 · 22110 · TEER 2

Biological technologists and technicians

Unit group 22110 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

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What this group covers

Biological technologists and technicians provide technical support and services to scientists, engineers and other professionals working in fields such as agriculture, resource management, environmental protection, plant and animal biology, microbiology, cell and molecular biology and health sciences, or may work independently in these fields. They are employed in both laboratory and field settings by governments, manufacturers of food products, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, biotechnology companies, health, research and educational institutions, environmental consulting companies, and resource and utilities companies.

Example job titles

As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.

agricultural sciences technician
agricultural technician
agricultural technologist
agrology technician
agrology technologist
agronomy technician
agronomy technologist
aquaculture technician
aquatic biology technician
bacteriological technician
bacteriological technologist
biological forensic laboratory technologist
biological laboratory technologist
biological technician
biological technologist
biotechnology technician
botanical technician
botanical technologist
crop production technician
dairy products technician
dairy technologist
ecological technician
ecological technologist
eel culture technician
entomological technician
entomological technologist
field crop technician
field crop technologist
fish culturist
fish farm technologist
fish hatchery technician
fish roe technician
fisheries technician
fisheries technologist
fishery bacteriological technician
fishery bacteriological technologist
food bacteriological technician
food bacteriological technologist
habitat management technician
hair and fibre forensic examiner
ichthyological technician
ichthyological technologist
industrial bacteriological technician
industrial bacteriological technologist
life sciences research technician
lobster culture technician
malacology technician
mammalogy technician
mammalogy technologist
marine biological technician
marine biology technician
marine biology technologist
marine culture technologist
marine farming technologist
microbiological technician
microbiology quality control technologist
microbiology technician (except medical)
microbiology technologist (except medical)
mycological technician
mycological technologist
nanobiotechnology technician
natural resources technician - biology
ornithological technician
ornithological technologist
oyster culture technician
pisciculture bacteriological technologist
plant breeding technician
plant pathology technician
plant pathology technologist
poultry technician
poultry technologist
sea-farming technologist
seed technologist
soil bacteriological technician
soil bacteriological technologist
vaccine technician
virology technologist
wildlife biology technician
wildlife resources technician
wildlife technician
wildlife technologist
zoo foreman/woman
zoo supervisor
zoological technician
zoological technologist

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.

$29.12 an hour

Low $19.50, high $43.00

Where it pays most

Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$34.42
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$33.99
Cariboo · British Columbia$33.93
South Coast--Burin Peninsula · Newfoundland and Labrador$33.67
Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$33.61

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

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by province and territory.
Where	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Newfoundland and Labrador	$31.25	$21.79 – $43.08	Undetermined
Prince Edward Island	$29.42	$18.62 – $33.70	Moderate
Nova Scotia	$25.39	$16.73 – $37.37	Moderate
New Brunswick	$27.24	$18.80 – $39.63	Limited
Quebec	$28.00	$20.00 – $41.03	Limited
Ontario	$30.00	$19.72 – $45.00	Very limited
Manitoba	$22.00	$19.48 – $29.00	Very limited
Saskatchewan	$32.00	$16.75 – $45.64	Moderate
Alberta	$32.99	$21.87 – $46.48	Limited
British Columbia	$32.85	$22.00 – $42.31	Very limited
Yukon Territory	$37.78	$21.61 – $46.90	Undetermined
Northwest Territories	Not published	Not published	Undetermined
Nunavut	$51.19	$27.93 – $61.02	Undetermined

By economic region

The 56 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by economic region.
Where	Province	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Avalon Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$31.25	$21.79 – $43.08	Undetermined
South Coast--Burin Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$33.67	$19.54 – $41.92	Undetermined
West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador	Newfoundland and Labrador	$32.35	$19.49 – $38.09	Undetermined
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	$27.25	$20.34 – $37.20	Moderate
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$25.30	$18.05 – $37.58	Moderate
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	$26.58	$18.87 – $41.38	Moderate
Southern	Nova Scotia	$25.22	$18.19 – $36.64	Moderate
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$27.32	$19.28 – $84.10	Moderate
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$30.19	$21.20 – $42.95	Limited
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$26.31	$19.94 – $39.37	Limited
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$27.82	$19.90 – $40.88	Limited
Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Quebec	$29.67	$21.98 – $38.09	Limited
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	$32.45	$22.02 – $42.06	Limited
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$30.57	$21.03 – $39.99	Limited
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$32.00	$23.30 – $40.00	Limited
Estrie	Quebec	$29.82	$20.53 – $37.69	Limited
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	$31.23	$21.17 – $37.13	Very limited
Montérégie	Quebec	$29.79	$21.24 – $41.18	Limited
Montréal	Quebec	$29.72	$20.95 – $38.92	Limited
Laval	Quebec	$30.48	$21.45 – $40.38	Limited
Lanaudière	Quebec	$29.48	$20.26 – $37.83	Moderate
Laurentides	Quebec	$30.40	$21.45 – $38.68	Limited
Outaouais	Quebec	$32.72	$25.52 – $46.10	Limited
Mauricie	Quebec	$29.20	$20.92 – $39.05	Limited
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	$30.01	$20.92 – $39.85	Limited
Côte-Nord	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Very limited
Nord-du-Québec	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Very limited
Ottawa	Ontario	$32.86	$21.97 – $46.73	Limited
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$30.40	$21.72 – $41.43	Undetermined
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$31.57	$21.64 – $42.52	Undetermined
Toronto	Ontario	$27.00	$18.00 – $46.00	Very limited
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$30.09	$19.96 – $37.09	Very limited
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$31.44	$20.95 – $43.27	Very limited
London	Ontario	$31.19	$21.71 – $41.78	Very limited
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$31.29	$21.33 – $43.76	Very limited
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$29.99	$21.47 – $40.22	Undetermined
Northeast	Ontario	$32.30	$22.01 – $44.27	Very limited
Northwest	Ontario	$30.68	$22.43 – $41.17	Undetermined
Southeast	Manitoba	$26.43	$19.52 – $39.18	Undetermined
South Central	Manitoba	$26.84	$19.09 – $35.89	Undetermined
Southwest	Manitoba	$25.26	$18.61 – $33.62	Undetermined
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$27.34	$19.02 – $32.62	Very limited
Swift Current--Moose Jaw	Saskatchewan	$32.12	$24.20 – $39.29	Undetermined
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$32.81	$23.16 – $41.99	Moderate
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$31.17	$23.65 – $41.04	Undetermined
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$33.99	$23.74 – $45.56	Undetermined
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$33.61	$22.01 – $42.96	Undetermined
Calgary	Alberta	$32.58	$20.95 – $45.42	Limited
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$34.42	$24.27 – $49.08	Undetermined
Edmonton	Alberta	$33.53	$22.40 – $46.81	Limited
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$33.05	$23.37 – $43.27	Very limited
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$30.00	$21.00 – $42.31	Limited
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$32.28	$22.71 – $43.08	Moderate
Kootenay	British Columbia	$32.31	$23.46 – $46.61	Undetermined
Cariboo	British Columbia	$33.93	$24.37 – $46.05	Undetermined
North Coast	British Columbia	$30.89	$23.32 – $42.31	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.