NOC 2021 · 32121 · TEER 2
Medical radiation technologists
Unit group 32121 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Medical radiation technologists operate radiographic and radiation therapy equipment to administer radiation treatment and produce images of body structures for the diagnosis and treatment of injury and disease. They are employed in hospitals, cancer treatment centres, clinics, radiological laboratories, colleges and universities. Medical radiation technologists who are supervisors or instructors are included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- brachytherapy technologist
- chief radiographer
- chief radiotherapy technologist
- diagnostic imaging technologist
- diagnostic medical radiation technologist
- diagnostic radiography technologist
- diagnostic radiological technician
- diagnostic radiological technologist
- diagnostic radiology technologist
- dosimetrist
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologist
- magnetic resonance technologist
- mammography technician
- mammography technologist
- medical imaging technologist - nuclear medicine
- medical imaging technologist - radiodiagnosis
- medical radiation technologist
- medical radiation technologist - Canadian Armed Forces
- medical radiation technologists supervisor
- medical radiographer
- nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI) technologist
- nuclear medicine chief technologist
- nuclear medicine clinical coordinator
- nuclear medicine clinical instructor
- nuclear medicine supervisor
- nuclear medicine technical coordinator
- nuclear medicine technical director
- nuclear medicine technician
- nuclear medicine technologist
- nuclear medicine technologists supervisor
- oncology technologist
- oncology technologist - radiation therapy
- positron-emission tomography (PET) technologist
- radiation oncology simulator technologist
- radiation oncology technician
- radiation oncology technologist
- radiation technologist - cancer therapy
- radiation technologist - oncology
- radiation therapist
- radiation therapists supervisor
- radiation therapy chief technologist
- radiation therapy clinical coordinator
- radiation therapy clinical instructor
- radiation therapy technical coordinator
- radiation therapy technologist (RTT)
- radiographic technologist
- radiography chief technologist
- radiography clinical coordinator
- radiography clinical instructor
- radiography supervisor
- radiography technical coordinator
- radiography technical director
- radiography technologist
- radiography technologists supervisor
- radioisotope technician
- radioisotope technologist
- radiological technician
- radiological technologist
- radiology technologist
- radiotherapy technician
- radiotherapy technologist
- registered radiology technologist
- registered technologist in nuclear medicine (RTNM)
- registered technologist in radiation therapy
- registered technologist in radiography (RTR)
- senior radiation therapy technologist
- therapeutic radiological technician
- X-ray (radiology) technician
- X-ray machine operator - medical
- X-ray technician
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
$40.00 an hour
Low $29.81, high $51.12
Where it pays most
- Toronto · Ontario$48.00
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$46.93
- Edmonton · Alberta$46.00
- Ottawa · Ontario$45.00
- London · Ontario$45.00
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 | $38.90 | $36.77 – $48.99 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | $37.57 | $32.00 – $48.26 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $38.50 | $30.00 – $48.99 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $39.74 | $32.36 – $50.00 | Good |
| Quebec | $35.00 | $24.00 – $40.00 | Good |
| Ontario | $45.00 | $35.00 – $52.04 | Good |
| Manitoba | $38.78 | $34.00 – $44.00 | Good |
| Saskatchewan | $41.00 | $23.17 – $45.07 | Very good |
| Alberta | $46.00 | $36.00 – $53.00 | Good |
| British Columbia | $42.00 | $32.00 – $53.15 | Good |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 70 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 | $38.90 | $35.00 – $50.00 | Good |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $38.00 | $37.00 – $48.99 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $40.82 | $32.94 – $49.45 | Undetermined |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $38.00 | $37.00 – $48.99 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $38.76 | $31.91 – $49.63 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $39.53 | $33.43 – $44.86 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $39.29 | $32.28 – $43.44 | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $40.10 | $32.78 – $45.13 | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $39.28 | $31.38 – $41.54 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $35.65 | $30.12 – $41.38 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $36.50 | $30.20 – $45.40 | Very good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $39.74 | $32.36 – $51.00 | Very good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $36.70 | $32.01 – $42.78 | Very good |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $36.16 | $28.87 – $41.38 | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $36.00 | $25.60 – $41.21 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $36.35 | $28.44 – $43.61 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $37.43 | $29.00 – $44.43 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $35.76 | $29.85 – $45.43 | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $35.61 | $22.00 – $39.25 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $37.49 | $24.50 – $40.00 | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | $35.00 | $31.50 – $39.75 | Good |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $35.87 | $28.13 – $44.06 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $36.11 | $28.08 – $43.25 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $39.06 | $30.30 – $48.42 | Good |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $37.03 | $29.06 – $42.96 | Good |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $36.17 | $28.43 – $41.34 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $36.46 | $28.71 – $44.18 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $35.45 | $21.73 – $37.49 | Good |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | $35.45 | $21.73 – $37.49 | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $45.00 | $37.50 – $53.00 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $43.27 | $36.00 – $55.00 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $43.24 | $34.48 – $52.48 | Very good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $48.00 | $35.00 – $52.66 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $44.66 | $40.00 – $52.00 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $42.76 | $34.73 – $47.00 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $45.00 | $35.00 – $52.04 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $45.00 | $35.00 – $52.04 | Good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $45.00 | $35.00 – $52.04 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $45.00 | $35.00 – $52.04 | Good |
| Northwest | Ontario | $45.00 | $35.00 – $52.04 | Good |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $40.79 | $36.90 – $41.82 | Very good |
| South Central | Manitoba | $41.97 | $33.26 – $54.42 | Good |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $40.04 | $31.28 – $48.89 | Good |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $38.78 | $34.00 – $50.00 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $41.10 | $32.33 – $52.14 | Moderate |
| Parklands | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $38.00 | $15.35 – $45.07 | Good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $38.10 | $28.40 – $43.18 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $41.00 | $32.00 – $47.92 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $39.88 | $27.91 – $56.15 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $38.85 | $30.59 – $46.64 | Very good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $43.24 | $33.85 – $52.65 | Good |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $43.37 | $34.23 – $52.02 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $43.00 | $35.00 – $51.20 | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $42.92 | $34.70 – $54.00 | Very good |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $44.23 | $34.61 – $54.90 | Good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $46.00 | $34.00 – $51.79 | Good |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $46.93 | $35.23 – $56.88 | Good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $42.50 | $32.00 – $51.00 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $44.16 | $29.81 – $61.00 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $42.21 | $33.37 – $51.32 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $42.21 | $32.92 – $52.53 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $39.00 | $33.00 – $53.15 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $43.37 | $31.41 – $52.57 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $40.23 | $33.16 – $48.16 | 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.