NOC 2021 · 32129 · TEER 2
Other medical technologists and technicians
Unit group 32129 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Other medical technologists and technicians includes medical technologists and technicians, such as dietary technicians, ocularists, prosthetists, orthotists, prosthetic technicians and orthotic technicians. Dietary technicians are employed in health care and commercial food service establishments such as hospitals, extended care facilities, nursing homes, schools, cafeterias and fast food outlets. Ocularists are employed in custom ocular prosthetic laboratories, or they may be self-employed. Prosthetists, orthotists and prosthetic and orthotic technicians are employed in hospitals, clinics, prosthetics and orthotics laboratories, and prosthetic device manufacturing companies. Prosthetists and orthotists may also be self-employed. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aeromedical instructor
- aeromedical technician
- aeromedicine technician
- apprentice ocularist
- artificial eye maker
- artificial limb assembler
- artificial limb finisher
- artificial limb maker
- aviation medicine technician
- brace maker
- certified orthotist (CO)
- certified pedorthist (C Ped)
- certified prosthetist
- certified prosthetist-orthotist (CPO)
- dialysis technician
- dialysis technologist
- dietary technician
- dietary technologist
- food and nutrition technician - dietetics
- hemodialysis technician
- hemodialysis technologist
- kidney dialysis technician
- kidney dialysis technologist
- ocular prosthetist
- ocularist
- ocularist apprentice
- ocularist technician
- orthopedic appliance assembler
- orthopedic mechanic
- orthotic technician
- orthotist
- orthotist-prosthetist
- pedorthist
- prosthetic aide
- prosthetic assistant
- prosthetic technician
- prosthetic-orthotic technician
- prosthetist
- prosthetist assistant
- prosthetist-orthotist
- registered orthotic technician (R.T.O.)
- registered prosthetic and orthotic technician (R.T.P.O.)
- registered prosthetic technician (R.T.P.)
- surgical appliance fitter
- surgical fitter
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
$28.00 an hour
Low $21.00, high $40.00
Where it pays most
- Outaouais · Quebec$31.83
- Avalon Peninsula · Newfoundland and Labrador$31.82
- Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$28.55
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$28.55
- Montérégie · Quebec$28.55
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 | $31.97 | $20.51 – $37.45 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $23.00 | $18.00 – $41.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Limited |
| Ontario | $27.00 | $21.00 – $41.70 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| British Columbia | $28.00 | $17.85 – $31.55 | 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 31 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 | $31.82 | $23.98 – $36.66 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $31.83 | $26.36 – $38.28 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $28.55 | $24.04 – $34.50 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $27.00 | $21.00 – $41.70 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $23.90 | $21.63 – $32.00 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $27.00 | $21.00 – $41.70 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $27.00 | $21.00 – $41.70 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $28.00 | $17.85 – $31.55 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Good |
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.