NOC 2021 · 22111 · TEER 2
Agricultural and fish products inspectors
Unit group 22111 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Agricultural and fish products inspectors inspect agricultural and fish products for conformity to prescribed production, storage and transportation standards. They are employed by government departments and agencies and by private sector food processing companies. Supervisors of agricultural and fish products inspectors are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- agricultural products inspection supervisor
- agricultural products inspector
- animal health inspector
- animal primary products inspector
- assistant grain inspector
- bread inspector
- butter inspector
- contagious animal disease prevention inspector
- cream inspector
- crop certification inspector
- dairy products inspector
- fish and fish products inspector
- fish inspector
- fish inspector-grader
- fish products inspection supervisor
- fish products inspector
- flour inspector
- food products inspector
- fruit and vegetable inspection centre supervisor
- fruit and vegetables inspector
- fruit inspector
- grain inspection supervisor
- grain inspector
- inspector of perishable goods
- livestock inspector
- meat hygiene inspector
- meat inspection supervisor
- meat inspector
- milk inspector
- plant primary products inspector
- plant protection inspector
- poultry inspector
- produce inspector
- seed crop inspector
- seed grains inspector
- slaughtering and meat processing plant inspector
- vegetable inspector
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
$35.00 an hour
Low $27.00, high $55.00
Where it pays most
- Halifax · Nova Scotia$39.34
- Annapolis Valley · Nova Scotia$38.87
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$38.86
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$38.69
- Edmonton · Alberta$38.55
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 | $36.74 | $22.53 – $46.83 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $35.17 | $24.00 – $42.04 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $37.44 | $26.00 – $51.79 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $37.48 | $25.05 – $51.61 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $33.83 | $24.23 – $48.45 | Limited |
| Ontario | $35.40 | $34.00 – $67.18 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $34.20 | $24.15 – $47.56 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $29.71 | $20.94 – $46.28 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $37.84 | $25.74 – $48.65 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $36.81 | $26.00 – $48.56 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 32 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 | $37.68 | $24.50 – $45.27 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $31.72 | $20.65 – $38.85 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $38.87 | $26.46 – $46.91 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $38.27 | $28.18 – $47.36 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $39.34 | $26.65 – $51.27 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $33.60 | $22.27 – $42.44 | Undetermined |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $36.30 | $26.05 – $46.66 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $35.71 | $24.96 – $47.45 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $34.75 | $23.41 – $45.35 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $34.12 | $24.37 – $44.74 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $34.73 | $23.31 – $46.44 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $34.40 | $24.99 – $44.66 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $36.39 | $26.87 – $49.93 | Undetermined |
| London | Ontario | $34.67 | $24.21 – $46.43 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $37.18 | $25.99 – $49.85 | Undetermined |
| Northwest | Ontario | $37.09 | $27.32 – $50.77 | Undetermined |
| South Central | Manitoba | $31.80 | $23.22 – $44.71 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $34.07 | $23.81 – $51.16 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $34.63 | $22.39 – $45.74 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $32.91 | $25.26 – $47.36 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $30.90 | $22.02 – $45.71 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $30.32 | $21.87 – $41.00 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $38.86 | $27.77 – $48.55 | Undetermined |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $34.32 | $24.85 – $44.66 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $37.34 | $25.62 – $46.75 | Undetermined |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $37.11 | $26.48 – $46.89 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $38.55 | $28.50 – $49.49 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $38.69 | $28.61 – $49.71 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $37.61 | $26.87 – $49.49 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $35.07 | $25.98 – $45.38 | 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.