NOC 2021 · 22212 · TEER 2

Drafting technologists and technicians

Unit group 22212 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

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What this group covers

Drafting technologists and technicians prepare engineering designs, drawings and related technical information, such as building information models (BIM), in multidisciplinary engineering teams or in support of engineers, architects or industrial designers, or they may work independently. They are employed by consulting and construction companies, utility, resource and manufacturing companies, all levels of government and by a wide range of other establishments.

Example job titles

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

aeronautical draftsperson
air conditioning systems draftsperson
architectural draftsperson
building information modelling (BIM) coordinator
building information modelling (BIM) designer
building information modelling (BIM) specialist
building information modelling (BIM) technician
building information modelling (BIM) technologist
building systems draftsperson
chief draftsperson
civil draftsperson
commercial draftsperson
computer-aided design (CAD) specialist - drafting
computer-aided design (CAD) technologist
computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) technologist
computer-aided drafting (CAD) technician
computer-assisted design and drafting (CADD) operator
computer-assisted drafting (CAD) draftsperson - printed circuit boards
computer-assisted drafting (CAD) operator
computer-assisted drafting (CAD) technician
computer-assisted electromechanical design draftsperson
design and drafting technologist
design draftsperson
design technician - drafting
design technologist - drafting
detail draftsperson
detailer
detailer - structural steel drafter
drafter
drafting checker
drafting clerk
drafting design checker
drafting group leader
drafting office supervisor
drafting supervisor
drafting technician
drafting technologist
drafting tracer
draftsman/woman
draftsperson
draftsperson - computer-assisted design
draftspersons supervisor
electrical drafting supervisor
electrical draftsperson
electrical marine draftsperson
electromechanical draftsperson
electronic draftsperson
engineering design and drafting technologist
engineering draftsperson
general draftsperson
geological draftsperson
geophysical draftsperson
heating and ventilation systems draftsperson
heating systems draftsperson
hull draftsperson - shipbuilding and repair
hydraulic machinery draftsperson
marine drafting supervisor
mechanical building draftsperson
mechanical design draftsperson
mechanical draftsperson
mine draftsperson
municipal draftsperson
optical draftsperson
petroleum exploration draftsperson
piping draftsperson
process piping draftsperson
refrigeration systems draftsperson
ship detail draftsperson
shipbuilding draftsperson
steel detailer - drafting
steel frame draftsman/woman
steel frame draftsperson
structural draftsperson
structural steel detailer
structural steel drafter-detailer
structural steel draftsperson
survey draftsperson
technical illustrator - drafting
tool checker - drafting
tool design draftsperson

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.

$31.79 an hour

Low $21.50, high $48.38

Where it pays most

Yorkton--Melville · Saskatchewan$40.45
Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$38.43
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$37.76
Cariboo · British Columbia$37.12
Prince Albert · Saskatchewan$36.99

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	$36.00	$25.00 – $56.73	Limited
Prince Edward Island	$26.91	$20.61 – $35.01	Moderate
Nova Scotia	$29.85	$19.63 – $45.01	Moderate
New Brunswick	$30.00	$23.32 – $40.11	Moderate
Quebec	$29.81	$21.00 – $42.31	Very limited
Ontario	$31.25	$20.00 – $48.08	Limited
Manitoba	$30.03	$22.00 – $48.56	Moderate
Saskatchewan	$35.78	$23.47 – $48.98	Moderate
Alberta	$36.00	$25.48 – $53.85	Moderate
British Columbia	$33.65	$20.00 – $51.00	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 57 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	$36.00	$25.00 – $56.73	Limited
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	Not published	Not published	Moderate
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$27.58	$20.35 – $35.28	Moderate
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Southern	Nova Scotia	$30.14	$22.19 – $37.61	Moderate
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$30.63	$19.99 – $43.49	Moderate
Campbellton--Miramichi	New Brunswick	$29.48	$22.78 – $40.97	Limited
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$29.50	$21.83 – $39.72	Moderate
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$29.42	$21.88 – $39.82	Moderate
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$29.54	$22.21 – $40.52	Moderate
Edmundston--Woodstock	New Brunswick	$27.23	$21.36 – $36.86	Limited
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	$28.84	$21.27 – $38.88	Limited
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$29.11	$21.83 – $41.59	Limited
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$30.35	$22.00 – $43.69	Limited
Estrie	Quebec	$30.29	$23.00 – $49.45	Limited
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	$29.92	$22.06 – $39.00	Limited
Montérégie	Quebec	$29.41	$21.88 – $41.30	Limited
Montréal	Quebec	$30.00	$20.00 – $41.35	Very limited
Laval	Quebec	$30.74	$21.75 – $40.89	Very limited
Lanaudière	Quebec	$29.50	$21.45 – $40.34	Limited
Laurentides	Quebec	$29.01	$21.63 – $40.64	Very limited
Outaouais	Quebec	$30.33	$21.54 – $38.80	Limited
Abitibi-Témiscamingue	Quebec	$30.96	$22.85 – $39.08	Limited
Mauricie	Quebec	$29.41	$21.97 – $39.36	Limited
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	$30.01	$21.88 – $39.71	Very limited
Ottawa	Ontario	$33.10	$22.35 – $47.61	Limited
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$31.65	$22.91 – $47.70	Moderate
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$31.55	$22.82 – $44.54	Limited
Toronto	Ontario	$32.50	$23.08 – $45.45	Very limited
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$31.34	$21.70 – $43.91	Limited
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$32.05	$21.00 – $75.00	Limited
London	Ontario	$31.94	$23.58 – $42.05	Limited
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$32.63	$22.58 – $45.98	Limited
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$33.29	$24.45 – $46.59	Moderate
Northeast	Ontario	$33.08	$23.76 – $46.88	Limited
Northwest	Ontario	$33.07	$23.38 – $44.34	Limited
Southeast	Manitoba	$30.03	$22.00 – $48.56	Good
South Central	Manitoba	$30.03	$22.00 – $48.56	Moderate
North Central	Manitoba	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$31.00	$18.00 – $50.90	Moderate
Interlake	Manitoba	$32.15	$24.09 – $44.41	Undetermined
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$35.69	$25.13 – $47.59	Moderate
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$35.34	$23.87 – $46.86	Moderate
Yorkton--Melville	Saskatchewan	$40.45	$28.94 – $54.97	Undetermined
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$36.99	$26.73 – $49.22	Undetermined
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$33.23	$23.23 – $47.63	Moderate
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$38.43	$27.36 – $52.49	Undetermined
Calgary	Alberta	$33.65	$22.00 – $50.00	Moderate
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$37.76	$26.18 – $53.90	Undetermined
Red Deer	Alberta	$33.59	$24.75 – $43.37	Undetermined
Edmonton	Alberta	$35.73	$24.30 – $51.81	Moderate
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$34.18	$24.74 – $46.29	Limited
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$32.21	$20.00 – $52.88	Limited
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$34.14	$24.86 – $46.07	Limited
Kootenay	British Columbia	$34.52	$23.47 – $43.62	Limited
Cariboo	British Columbia	$37.12	$27.58 – $47.91	Moderate
Northeast	British Columbia	$35.54	$26.58 – $45.94	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.