NOC 2021 · 31303 · TEER 1
Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals
Unit group 31303 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Physician assistants and midwives provide primary health care and treatment in conjunction with physicians and in collaboration with other health professionals. Physician assistants provide a range of health services to patients delivering preventive and continuous care toward the management of patients' health. Midwives provide full-course care to women and their babies during the pre- and post-natal period. This unit group also includes professionals such as genetic counsellors, orthoptists and pathologists' assistants, who work in collaboration with primary health occupations. Genetic counsellors assess individual or family risk of genetic conditions, and provide information to individuals, families and healthcare providers to promote informed choice. Orthoptists diagnose and treat binocular disorders. Pathologists' assistants assist at autopsies and examinations of surgical specimens, or perform autopsies under a pathologist's supervision. Physician assistants usually work under physicians in private practice, including group or team practices, hospitals and clinics. Midwives are employed in hospitals, clinics, birthing centres or in private practice. Genetic counsellors usually work in private practice, hospitals, clinics and research institutes. Orthoptists work under an ophthalmologist, particularly in private practices or clinics. Pathologists' assistants are usually employed in hospitals and universities.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- chief orthoptist
- clinical orthoptist
- genetic counsellor
- licensed midwife
- midwife
- orthoptist
- pathologists' assistant
- pathology assistant
- physician assistant
- registered midwife (RM)
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
$46.81 an hour
Low $24.09, high $60.26
Where it pays most
- Winnipeg · Manitoba$48.56
- Halifax · Nova Scotia$46.65
- Windsor--Sarnia · Ontario$46.07
- Kingston--Pembroke · Ontario$45.66
- Northeast · Ontario$45.57
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 | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $46.11 | $34.24 – $58.81 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $49.34 | $32.18 – $55.35 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $43.98 | $29.43 – $66.16 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $43.93 | $24.47 – $56.37 | Good |
| Manitoba | $49.43 | $35.49 – $63.03 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $43.15 | $34.54 – $49.78 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $38.28 | $24.97 – $53.71 | Good |
| British Columbia | $44.20 | $30.77 – $56.00 | 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 23 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $46.65 | $35.75 – $56.39 | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $41.64 | $29.76 – $52.73 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $43.05 | $30.55 – $58.02 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $44.58 | $29.27 – $60.65 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $41.99 | $29.14 – $51.75 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $42.77 | $29.93 – $58.75 | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $43.95 | $32.49 – $53.74 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $45.66 | $36.22 – $56.54 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $42.84 | $27.24 – $52.74 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $43.51 | $29.02 – $52.11 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $43.68 | $26.28 – $52.00 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $44.03 | $29.02 – $51.61 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $46.07 | $29.20 – $54.79 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $45.57 | $30.10 – $52.09 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $48.56 | $34.06 – $58.12 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $37.94 | $25.78 – $49.22 | Good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $42.16 | $28.04 – $52.17 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $44.98 | $29.37 – $53.74 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $43.84 | $30.28 – $52.60 | 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 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.