NOC 2021 · 22301 · TEER 2
Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians
Unit group 22301 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians provide technical support and services or may work independently in mechanical engineering fields such as the design, development, maintenance and testing of machines, components, tools, heating and ventilating systems, geothermal power plants, power generation and power conversion plants, manufacturing plants and equipment. They are employed by consulting engineering, manufacturing and processing companies, institutions and government departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aeronautical technologist
- aerospace engineering technician
- aerospace engineering technologist
- automation technician
- automation technologist
- cryonics engineering technologist
- die designer
- drone technician
- equipment development technician
- heating designer
- heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems technician
- heating, ventilating and air conditioning technician
- heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems specialist
- heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems technologist
- heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) technologist
- home automation technician
- house automation technician
- machine designer
- machine tool designer
- marine engineering technologist
- mechanical engineering design technologist
- mechanical engineering development technologist
- mechanical engineering equipment designer
- mechanical engineering technician
- mechanical engineering technologist
- mechanical equipment engineering assistant
- mechanical marine engineering technician
- mechanical technical inspector
- mechanical technologist
- mould designer
- nuclear engineering technician
- nuclear engineering technologist
- nuclear technologist
- power equipment design technician
- reliability technician
- robotics servicing technician
- robotics systems installer and repairer
- robotics technician
- robotics technologist
- ship repair technician
- thermal station technician
- tool and die designer
- tool designer
- unmanned aerial system (UAS) maintainer
- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator - Canadian Armed Forces
- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technician
- vibration technologist
- wind tunnel test technician
- wind tunnel test 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.
Across Canada
$35.00 an hour
Low $23.08, high $51.28
Where it pays most
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$43.05
- Northeast · British Columbia$42.91
- Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$42.33
- Red Deer · Alberta$41.31
- Kootenay · British Columbia$41.14
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 | $32.00 | $22.00 – $54.31 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $28.41 | $19.83 – $48.54 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $38.80 | $25.98 – $51.88 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $35.00 | $25.00 – $43.27 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $35.00 | $24.00 – $48.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $38.00 | $23.00 – $52.88 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $34.84 | $23.73 – $53.51 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $41.50 | $27.45 – $61.66 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $39.00 | $18.03 – $65.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $37.00 | $23.00 – $79.33 | 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 56 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 | $32.00 | $22.00 – $54.31 | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $38.93 | $26.46 – $51.98 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $38.31 | $24.82 – $48.95 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $38.87 | $25.01 – $49.24 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $37.41 | $23.46 – $50.38 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $39.92 | $25.79 – $50.40 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $32.72 | $24.04 – $47.13 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $36.07 | $25.52 – $52.40 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $35.99 | $25.55 – $49.51 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $36.38 | $27.32 – $49.85 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $36.39 | $25.44 – $47.67 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $34.00 | $26.00 – $51.92 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $35.00 | $24.00 – $48.00 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $35.79 | $25.21 – $50.52 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $34.89 | $24.79 – $45.97 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $33.00 | $25.25 – $43.00 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $35.00 | $24.00 – $51.10 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $35.00 | $24.00 – $48.00 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $35.00 | $24.00 – $48.00 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $37.07 | $25.96 – $51.37 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $36.38 | $24.99 – $51.19 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $35.54 | $24.77 – $44.35 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $36.68 | $25.39 – $47.51 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $36.82 | $24.57 – $54.15 | Very limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $40.10 | $28.34 – $54.82 | Very limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $39.49 | $26.34 – $57.67 | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $38.00 | $23.00 – $52.88 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $37.50 | $24.04 – $63.19 | Very limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $38.82 | $25.11 – $53.44 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $36.55 | $22.50 – $43.27 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $38.19 | $25.69 – $55.37 | Very limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $38.99 | $24.82 – $59.05 | Limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $40.36 | $26.80 – $56.14 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $37.60 | $25.43 – $52.93 | Undetermined |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $35.64 | $25.87 – $48.36 | Undetermined |
| South Central | Manitoba | $37.03 | $25.65 – $49.14 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $33.17 | $20.12 – $55.76 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $35.82 | $24.68 – $48.27 | Limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $35.24 | $24.75 – $50.08 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $43.05 | $31.03 – $57.87 | Undetermined |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $39.97 | $29.29 – $49.65 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $42.33 | $29.36 – $55.44 | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $38.36 | $25.76 – $58.70 | Undetermined |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $41.01 | $29.16 – $62.82 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $40.45 | $26.54 – $58.79 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $41.31 | $28.55 – $62.81 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $40.45 | $27.18 – $59.77 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $40.79 | $27.23 – $56.16 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $38.00 | $27.00 – $79.33 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $39.03 | $27.24 – $53.15 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $41.14 | $28.65 – $60.56 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $38.44 | $24.44 – $52.48 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $42.91 | $29.94 – $63.50 | 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.