NOC 2021 · 31103 · TEER 1

Veterinarians

Unit group 31103 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

Express Entry draws from this TEER level.

Healthcare and social services occupations

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What this group covers

Veterinarians prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and disorders in animals and advise clients on the feeding, hygiene, housing and general care of animals. They can also perform surgical procedures. They work in private practice or may be employed by animal clinics, farms, laboratories, government or industry.

Example job titles

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

animal behavior veterinarian
animal pathologist
avian veterinarian
companion animal veterinarian
doctor of veterinary medicine
emergency and intensive care veterinarian
equine veterinarian
farm veterinarian
food animal veterinarian
laboratory animal veterinarian
large animal veterinary internist
poultry veterinarian
preventive medicine veterinarian
research veterinarian
small animal veterinarian
small animal veterinary internist
small animal veterinary specialist
veterinarian
veterinarian practitioner
veterinary anatomist
Veterinary anesthesiologist
veterinary bacteriologist
veterinary dentist
veterinary dermatologist
veterinary epidemiologist
veterinary inspector
veterinary internist
veterinary laboratory diagnostician
veterinary microbiologist
veterinary neurologist
veterinary oncologist
veterinary ophthalmologist
veterinary parasitologist
veterinary pathologist
veterinary pharmacologist
veterinary physiologist
veterinary radiologist
veterinary surgeon
veterinary theriogenologist
veterinary virologist
zoo veterinarian

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.

$60.00 an hour

Low $34.15, high $84.13

Where it pays most

Montérégie · Quebec$64.10
Lanaudière · Quebec$64.10
Laurentides · Quebec$64.10
Mauricie · Quebec$64.10
Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$62.50

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	$57.35	$40.13 – $76.72	Undetermined
Prince Edward Island	$51.82	$29.33 – $71.23	Good
Nova Scotia	$52.20	$49.31 – $71.23	Good
New Brunswick	$51.82	$29.33 – $71.23	Good
Quebec	$64.10	$25.00 – $70.00	Moderate
Ontario	$60.00	$29.81 – $86.54	Good
Manitoba	$50.48	$38.46 – $72.12	Good
Saskatchewan	$52.88	$38.65 – $65.00	Moderate
Alberta	$62.50	$40.75 – $88.94	Good
British Columbia	$60.00	$35.58 – $86.54	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 43 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	$55.77	$34.96 – $68.58	Undetermined
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	Not published	Not published	Good
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$50.79	$35.40 – $61.77	Good
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	$52.20	$49.31 – $71.23	Good
Southern	Nova Scotia	Not published	Not published	Good
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$52.20	$49.31 – $71.23	Good
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$47.42	$34.37 – $55.74	Good
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$46.20	$33.86 – $55.41	Good
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$50.50	$40.13 – $67.46	Good
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Estrie	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Good
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Montérégie	Quebec	$64.10	$25.00 – $70.00	Moderate
Montréal	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Laval	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Lanaudière	Quebec	$64.10	$25.00 – $70.00	Limited
Laurentides	Quebec	$64.10	$25.00 – $70.00	Moderate
Outaouais	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Mauricie	Quebec	$64.10	$25.00 – $70.00	Moderate
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Ottawa	Ontario	$60.00	$29.81 – $86.54	Good
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	Not published	Not published	Good
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$60.00	$29.81 – $86.54	Good
Toronto	Ontario	$60.00	$29.81 – $86.54	Good
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$60.00	$29.81 – $86.54	Good
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$60.00	$43.59 – $89.74	Good
London	Ontario	$60.00	$29.81 – $86.54	Good
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$60.00	$29.81 – $86.54	Good
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	Not published	Not published	Good
Northeast	Ontario	$60.00	$29.81 – $86.54	Good
Winnipeg	Manitoba	Not published	Not published	Good
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$52.88	$38.65 – $65.00	Undetermined
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$52.88	$38.65 – $65.00	Moderate
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$62.50	$40.75 – $88.94	Undetermined
Calgary	Alberta	$62.50	$40.75 – $88.94	Good
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	Not published	Not published	Good
Edmonton	Alberta	$62.50	$40.75 – $88.94	Good
Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River	Alberta	Not published	Not published	Good
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$60.00	$35.58 – $86.54	Moderate
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$60.00	$35.58 – $86.54	Moderate
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$60.00	$35.58 – $86.54	Moderate

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.