NOC 2021 · 33109 · TEER 3
Other assisting occupations in support of health services
Unit group 33109 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Other assisting workers in support of health services provide services and assistance to health care professionals and other health care staff. They are employed in hospitals, medical clinics, offices of health care professionals, nursing homes, optical retail stores and laboratories, and medical pathology laboratories.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- activationist - health support services
- activities coordinator - health support services
- activity aide - health support services
- activity leader - seniors
- activity worker - health support services
- acupuncture assistant
- acupuncture attendant
- adjuvant
- audiometric aide
- audiometric assistant
- audiometric technician
- autopsy assistant
- autopsy attendant
- autopsy technician
- blood donor clinic assistant
- blood donor clinic attendant
- blood donor clinic helper
- blood sampling attendant
- cast room technician
- central service room worker - hospital
- central supply aide
- central supply aide - medical
- central supply room supervisor - hospital
- central supply room technician - hospital
- certified ophthalmic assistant
- chiropractic aide
- chiropractic assistant
- chiropractic health assistant
- chiropractic office assistant
- chiropractor aide
- clinic assistant - medical
- clinical laboratory helper
- emergency room attendant
- emergency-entry attendant - hospital
- fracture room attendant
- health aide
- herbal medicine assistant
- industrial audiometric technician
- instrument sterilizer - medical
- lens grinder-polisher setter
- lens marker - health support services
- lens marker - ophthalmic
- medical clinic assistant
- medical device reprocessing technician
- medical device reprocessor
- medical instrument sterilizer
- medical material handler
- morgue attendant
- morgue technician
- occupational therapy aide
- occupational therapy helper
- ophthalmic assistant
- ophthalmic goods antireflection (AR) coating technician
- ophthalmic goods bench worker
- ophthalmic goods lens coating technician
- ophthalmic goods lens cutter
- ophthalmic goods lens tinter
- ophthalmic lab technician - retail
- ophthalmic laboratory technician - retail
- ophthalmic lens bench worker
- ophthalmic lens cutter
- ophthalmic lens edge grinder
- ophthalmic lens grinder
- ophthalmic lens grinder and polisher
- ophthalmic lens grinder-polisher setter
- ophthalmic lens inspector
- ophthalmic lens marker
- ophthalmic medical assistant
- ophthalmologist assistant
- optical and ophthalmic goods lens picker
- optical goods inspector
- optical lab mechanic - retail
- optical laboratory assistant
- optical laboratory technician
- optical laboratory technician - retail
- optical lens grinder and polisher
- optical lens inspector
- optical mechanic
- optical technician
- optometric assistant
- optometric technician
- optometrist assistant
- orthopedic assistant
- orthopedic physician assistant
- orthopedic supervisor
- orthopedic technician
- orthopedic technologist
- orthopedist aide
- physical therapy attendant
- physiotherapy attendant
- physiotherapy helper
- phytotherapy assistant
- plaster room aide
- plaster room attendant
- polishing pad mounter
- post-mortem attendant
- radiology aide
- recreation aide - health services
- recreation therapist aide
- recreational therapy aide
- registered central service technician - medical
- registered orthopedic technologist
- rehabilitation aide
- senior adjuvant
- sterile processing technician
- sterile processing worker
- sterile supply room attendant
- sterilization attendant
- sterilization processing attendant
- supply, processing and distribution aide - medical
- surgical assistant
- surgical assistant - non-nursing
- surgical technician - non-nursing
- therapy aide
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
$23.00 an hour
Low $18.00, high $29.81
Where it pays most
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$27.82
- Cariboo · British Columbia$26.98
- Northeast · British Columbia$26.38
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$26.00
- Mauricie · Quebec$25.84
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 | $22.00 | $16.00 – $25.00 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | $25.00 | $16.50 – $38.00 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $24.00 | $16.50 – $25.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $23.00 | $18.65 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $23.00 | $17.00 – $26.00 | Limited |
| Ontario | $22.00 | $18.00 – $30.47 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $20.00 | $16.50 – $24.84 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $22.83 | $15.87 – $26.00 | Good |
| Alberta | $22.50 | $20.00 – $29.81 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $25.00 | $18.00 – $29.07 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | $27.12 | $18.44 – $42.41 | Moderate |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 67 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 | $23.50 | $19.75 – $28.26 | Good |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $22.97 | $20.81 – $25.17 | Good |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $23.20 | $17.50 – $25.00 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $24.00 | $21.36 – $25.38 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $24.00 | $19.69 – $29.86 | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $22.80 | $20.15 – $24.95 | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $23.25 | $16.50 – $25.00 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $20.86 | $18.68 – $24.93 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $23.50 | $18.75 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $23.31 | $21.26 – $29.36 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $20.97 | $18.75 – $25.25 | Moderate |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $23.00 | $21.00 – $25.39 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $25.63 | $21.12 – $32.99 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $25.75 | $20.69 – $30.54 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $24.43 | $20.05 – $32.00 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $25.26 | $20.69 – $31.09 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $25.03 | $20.28 – $28.39 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $25.29 | $20.79 – $30.83 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $22.86 | $16.10 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $24.76 | $19.91 – $29.02 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $25.52 | $20.47 – $31.25 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $25.71 | $20.23 – $32.80 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $24.56 | $19.39 – $31.02 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $23.72 | $19.92 – $28.50 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $24.35 | $20.26 – $29.84 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $25.84 | $20.48 – $35.77 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $24.64 | $20.29 – $28.82 | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $24.00 | $19.00 – $37.72 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $25.38 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $24.39 | $20.03 – $30.87 | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $22.04 | $18.13 – $29.23 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $23.00 | $18.50 – $38.46 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $22.00 | $18.00 – $30.47 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $24.00 | $19.00 – $31.25 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $23.50 | $17.60 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $23.55 | $19.50 – $27.95 | Very good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $24.00 | $18.00 – $28.54 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $24.50 | $17.60 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $20.23 | $18.81 – $26.27 | Undetermined |
| South Central | Manitoba | $21.45 | $17.57 – $28.25 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $22.50 | $17.00 – $24.84 | Good |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $20.00 | $17.00 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $21.84 | $18.54 – $30.42 | Undetermined |
| Parklands | Manitoba | $21.11 | $17.12 – $25.76 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $21.00 | $17.50 – $24.21 | Good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $22.71 | $19.11 – $24.54 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $22.83 | $15.87 – $28.00 | Good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $22.22 | $20.34 – $25.78 | Very good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $22.90 | $19.25 – $27.56 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $23.26 | $19.45 – $29.12 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $22.62 | $19.51 – $29.28 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $24.55 | $18.86 – $32.30 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $23.50 | $22.00 – $49.80 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $21.29 | $18.00 – $27.80 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $22.34 | $19.00 – $26.00 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $23.50 | $22.00 – $49.80 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $25.64 | $19.59 – $33.75 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $27.82 | $18.00 – $32.00 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $26.00 | $18.00 – $30.06 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $25.14 | $20.70 – $30.44 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $24.43 | $20.46 – $29.81 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $26.98 | $22.34 – $43.57 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $24.28 | $20.10 – $28.00 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $26.38 | $21.45 – $29.54 | 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) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024).
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.