NOC 2021 · 32122 · TEER 2
Medical sonographers
Unit group 32122 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Medical sonographers operate ultrasound equipment to produce and record images of various parts of the body to aid physicians in monitoring pregnancies and in diagnosing cardiac, ophthalmic, vascular and other medical disorders. They are employed in clinics and hospitals. Medical sonographers 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.
- adult echocardiographer
- cardiac sonographer
- cardiac ultrasound technician
- cardiac ultrasound technologist
- chief diagnostic medical sonographer
- diagnostic cardiac sonographer
- diagnostic echography technician
- diagnostic medical sonographer
- diagnostic medical sonography instructor
- diagnostic ultrasonography technician
- diagnostic ultrasound supervisor
- diagnostic ultrasound technician
- diagnostic ultrasound technologist - medical
- echocardiographer
- echocardiography technician
- echocardiography technologist
- echocardiography technologist sonographer
- echography technician
- echography technologist
- medical imaging technologist - ultrasound
- medical sonographer
- medical sonographers supervisor
- pediatric echocardiographer
- registered diagnostic cardiac sonographer
- registered diagnostic medical sonographer (RDMS)
- registered ultrasound technologist
- sonographer - medical
- sonography technologist
- student medical sonographer
- student sonographer - medical
- ultrasonographer - medical
- ultrasonography technician
- ultrasonography technologist
- ultrasound supervisor
- ultrasound technician
- ultrasound technologist
- vascular sonographer
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
$42.00 an hour
Low $34.90, high $51.00
Where it pays most
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$47.07
- Edmonton · Alberta$46.37
- Calgary · Alberta$46.09
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$45.95
- Red Deer · Alberta$45.19
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 | $42.70 | $33.44 – $48.72 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $39.01 | $29.56 – $45.30 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $37.23 | $30.31 – $43.72 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $38.50 | $29.47 – $45.70 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $41.00 | $35.00 – $48.08 | Good |
| Manitoba | $41.70 | $39.21 – $46.00 | Good |
| Saskatchewan | $44.07 | $33.55 – $52.52 | Very good |
| Alberta | $46.00 | $38.46 – $55.65 | Very good |
| British Columbia | $44.41 | $35.00 – $50.00 | 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 34 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 | $42.44 | $36.07 – $47.47 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $39.33 | $30.48 – $46.57 | Undetermined |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $36.88 | $31.51 – $45.05 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $36.29 | $28.13 – $40.42 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $36.89 | $29.79 – $44.14 | Undetermined |
| Estrie | Quebec | $39.70 | $33.90 – $48.58 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $39.51 | $32.08 – $48.17 | Undetermined |
| Montréal | Quebec | $38.14 | $30.61 – $46.53 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $36.38 | $29.78 – $40.96 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $39.05 | $31.79 – $50.23 | Undetermined |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $37.82 | $31.36 – $47.11 | Undetermined |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $42.62 | $34.06 – $52.18 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $40.63 | $29.91 – $50.25 | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $38.75 | $29.64 – $48.15 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $41.11 | $32.29 – $51.85 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $41.00 | $35.00 – $45.60 | Very good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $40.69 | $30.16 – $51.64 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $39.04 | $28.16 – $47.33 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $42.00 | $33.50 – $44.86 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $37.78 | $28.49 – $45.40 | Good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $39.58 | $29.66 – $47.71 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $40.97 | $31.24 – $51.16 | Good |
| Northwest | Ontario | $39.38 | $32.46 – $48.79 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $40.16 | $33.17 – $48.17 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $44.17 | $33.86 – $50.44 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $43.61 | $33.41 – $51.20 | Very good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $47.07 | $36.36 – $55.61 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $46.09 | $36.10 – $54.01 | Very good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $45.95 | $37.07 – $53.54 | Undetermined |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $45.19 | $35.46 – $53.06 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $46.37 | $36.22 – $54.15 | Very good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $44.02 | $34.40 – $52.35 | Good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $43.96 | $34.38 – $50.96 | Good |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $44.35 | $34.10 – $50.74 | 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.