NOC 2021 · 22231 · TEER 2
Engineering inspectors and regulatory officers
Unit group 22231 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Engineering inspectors and regulatory officers inspect transportation vehicles such as aircraft, watercraft, automobiles and trucks and weighing and measuring devices such as scales and meters as well as industrial instruments, processes and equipment for conformity to government and industry standards and regulations. They are employed by government agencies and in the private sector.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- air carrier maintenance inspector
- air transport inspector
- airworthiness inspector
- ammunition safety inspector
- boiler and machinery inspector
- boiler inspector
- broadcast interference inspector
- cargo surveyor
- consumer affairs inspector
- crane inspector
- electricity and gas meter inspector
- elevator inspector
- engineering department inspector
- engineering department inspector - local government
- engineering inspector
- engineering regulatory officer
- escalator inspector
- flight operations inspector
- freight car inspector
- insurance loss prevention inspector
- lifting gear inspector
- loss prevention inspector - insurance
- marine cargo surveyor
- marine damage surveyor
- marine surveyor
- measurement specialist - oil and gas
- measurement technician - oil and gas inspection
- motor transportation inspector
- motor transportation regulations officer
- motor vehicle defects investigator
- motor vehicle inspector
- pipeline equipment inspector
- pipeline inspector
- quality assurance officer
- radio interference investigator
- railway accident investigation officer
- railway inspector
- road safety inspector
- ship inspector
- tensile strength inspector
- weights and measures 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
$36.10 an hour
Low $24.00, high $67.18
Where it pays most
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$55.16
- Calgary · Alberta$48.66
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$48.54
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$48.09
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$47.66
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 | $42.88 | $28.93 – $63.23 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $36.72 | $25.05 – $59.09 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $37.25 | $25.83 – $55.59 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $40.10 | $25.66 – $56.99 | Limited |
| Ontario | $35.35 | $29.37 – $58.97 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $44.62 | $30.00 – $75.55 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $45.76 | $32.46 – $57.46 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $50.48 | $20.00 – $67.18 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $46.82 | $31.36 – $67.14 | 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 | $46.11 | $31.82 – $63.75 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $36.73 | $24.10 – $59.06 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $38.36 | $26.62 – $60.64 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $41.60 | $27.59 – $67.31 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $35.89 | $23.79 – $51.57 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $41.89 | $26.06 – $54.58 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $39.42 | $25.41 – $51.84 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $41.81 | $25.88 – $51.89 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $41.94 | $29.41 – $55.47 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $41.03 | $27.83 – $54.00 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $44.25 | $29.81 – $59.31 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $39.84 | $26.57 – $49.83 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $36.68 | $23.59 – $49.23 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $35.35 | $29.37 – $58.97 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $35.35 | $24.00 – $49.45 | Very limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $35.35 | $29.37 – $58.97 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $35.35 | $29.37 – $58.97 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $35.35 | $29.37 – $58.97 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $35.35 | $29.37 – $58.97 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $40.85 | $27.08 – $58.95 | Limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $43.76 | $28.39 – $73.58 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $47.66 | $33.18 – $63.31 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $47.00 | $35.93 – $62.74 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $48.66 | $31.40 – $75.21 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $55.16 | $37.79 – $92.13 | Undetermined |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $46.28 | $29.33 – $77.14 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $47.66 | $30.40 – $73.60 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $45.82 | $27.44 – $58.78 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $48.54 | $30.25 – $61.92 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $48.09 | $32.07 – $62.27 | 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.