NOC 2021 · 31121 · TEER 1

Dietitians and nutritionists

Unit group 31121 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

Dietitians and nutritionists assess nutrition related issues of individuals and groups and develop, implement and evaluate nutrition care plans to prevent, treat and manage disease. They manage food and nutrition service systems, and plan health promotion programs. They are employed in a variety of settings including hospitals, home health-care agencies and extended care facilities, community health centres, the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, educational institutions, and government and sports organizations, or they may work as private consultants.

Example job titles

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

administrative dietitian
administrative nutritionist
clinical dietitian
clinical nutritionist
community dietitian
community nutritionist
consultant dietitian
consultant nutritionist
dietetic consultant
dietician
dietitian
dietitian-nutritionist
nutrition and dietetics researcher
nutrition consultant
nutrition researcher
nutrition specialist
nutritionist
professional dietitian (P.Dt.)
professional nutritionist
public health dietitian
public health nutritionist
registered dietitian (RD)
registered dietitian-nutritionist (RDN)
registered nutritionist
registered professional dietitian
registered professional nutritionist
research dietitian
research nutritionist
therapeutic dietitian
therapeutic nutritionist

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.

$41.63 an hour

Low $22.53, high $50.00

Where it pays most

Red Deer · Alberta$49.30
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$48.16
Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$47.19
Edmonton · Alberta$46.56
Calgary · Alberta$45.09

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	$40.00	$25.00 – $46.00	Undetermined
Prince Edward Island	$40.38	$30.77 – $44.00	Good
Nova Scotia	$41.94	$28.89 – $53.94	Good
New Brunswick	$40.00	$20.00 – $46.00	Good
Quebec	$40.00	$26.75 – $50.00	Moderate
Ontario	$42.00	$20.00 – $50.00	Moderate
Manitoba	$34.36	$29.50 – $45.00	Good
Saskatchewan	$42.00	$38.75 – $48.00	Good
Alberta	$46.24	$32.22 – $57.46	Good
British Columbia	$44.00	$32.85 – $50.00	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 52 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	$43.31	$34.90 – $47.77	Undetermined
South Coast--Burin Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$41.17	$30.94 – $44.93	Undetermined
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	$42.60	$31.81 – $47.68	Good
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$42.71	$31.89 – $46.58	Good
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	Not published	Not published	Good
Southern	Nova Scotia	Not published	Not published	Good
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$39.46	$27.92 – $49.62	Good
Campbellton--Miramichi	New Brunswick	$38.63	$30.45 – $43.93	Very good
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$39.41	$32.24 – $45.15	Good
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$37.91	$31.41 – $41.77	Good
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$39.78	$32.05 – $44.42	Good
Edmundston--Woodstock	New Brunswick	$37.59	$29.51 – $41.67	Very good
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	$38.17	$27.39 – $41.38	Undetermined
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$41.21	$30.00 – $50.00	Moderate
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$43.04	$31.65 – $50.92	Moderate
Estrie	Quebec	$41.73	$30.99 – $49.29	Good
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	$40.68	$27.57 – $46.90	Undetermined
Montérégie	Quebec	$41.47	$29.28 – $49.38	Moderate
Montréal	Quebec	$41.07	$29.08 – $48.25	Good
Laval	Quebec	$42.14	$30.09 – $50.18	Good
Lanaudière	Quebec	$42.89	$31.70 – $49.79	Moderate
Laurentides	Quebec	$41.50	$30.13 – $48.79	Very good
Outaouais	Quebec	$41.67	$31.81 – $49.38	Good
Abitibi-Témiscamingue	Quebec	$42.58	$32.73 – $50.01	Good
Mauricie	Quebec	$43.44	$32.31 – $51.24	Moderate
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	$41.80	$31.14 – $48.46	Good
Côte-Nord	Quebec	$43.58	$31.58 – $53.08	Undetermined
Ottawa	Ontario	$43.39	$31.17 – $52.78	Moderate
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$44.40	$31.75 – $52.20	Moderate
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$43.13	$32.42 – $51.15	Very good
Toronto	Ontario	$42.00	$20.00 – $50.00	Moderate
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$42.00	$24.62 – $48.08	Moderate
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$43.65	$31.77 – $51.71	Moderate
London	Ontario	$40.56	$29.07 – $48.41	Moderate
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$43.64	$33.23 – $52.16	Moderate
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$41.66	$32.00 – $50.76	Moderate
Northeast	Ontario	$43.28	$32.31 – $51.83	Moderate
Northwest	Ontario	$42.00	$20.00 – $50.00	Moderate
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$34.36	$30.00 – $45.00	Good
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$41.16	$34.38 – $48.03	Undetermined
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$41.00	$39.00 – $48.00	Very good
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$40.29	$33.75 – $47.45	Undetermined
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$45.05	$34.13 – $53.95	Undetermined
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$47.19	$34.10 – $54.17	Undetermined
Calgary	Alberta	$45.09	$31.78 – $54.03	Good
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$48.16	$34.42 – $59.96	Undetermined
Red Deer	Alberta	$49.30	$34.61 – $61.77	Undetermined
Edmonton	Alberta	$46.56	$33.45 – $55.97	Moderate
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$44.00	$37.44 – $50.00	Moderate
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$44.00	$32.85 – $49.00	Moderate
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$43.83	$34.39 – $50.67	Moderate
Kootenay	British Columbia	$44.37	$35.47 – $48.56	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.