NOC 2021 · 40041 · TEER 0
Fire chiefs and senior firefighting officers
Unit group 40041 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Fire chiefs and senior firefighting officers plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate firefighting operations and fire prevention activities in fire departments. They are employed by municipal and federal governments and by industrial establishments with firefighting services.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- airport fire department chief
- deputy fire chief
- district fire chief
- division chief - fire department
- fire chief
- fire department assistant deputy chief
- fire department assistant manager
- fire department chief
- fire department division chief
- fire department duty officer
- firefighters executive officer
- industrial fire chief
- refinery fire chief
- sawmill fire chief
- senior firefighting officer
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
$62.64 an hour
Low $37.02, high $83.84
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$71.12
- Halifax · Nova Scotia$69.08
- Toronto · Ontario$68.77
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$67.67
- North Coast · British Columbia$67.18
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 | $52.42 | $37.78 – $74.70 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $68.94 | $42.56 – $86.88 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $60.99 | $42.99 – $77.67 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $55.85 | $39.43 – $82.36 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $66.39 | $52.00 – $96.39 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | $54.92 | $36.03 – $88.88 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $57.99 | $36.10 – $80.21 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $64.83 | $45.23 – $83.19 | Good |
| British Columbia | $67.53 | $43.77 – $92.49 | 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 29 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 | $69.08 | $45.48 – $82.45 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $58.56 | $42.82 – $80.72 | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $53.23 | $37.30 – $75.60 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $55.62 | $40.25 – $76.52 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $54.55 | $38.10 – $73.51 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $55.25 | $41.08 – $73.79 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $54.11 | $39.03 – $69.90 | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $65.42 | $45.63 – $81.06 | Undetermined |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $60.57 | $42.58 – $75.19 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $64.08 | $44.66 – $79.54 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $68.77 | $49.64 – $91.69 | Undetermined |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $64.51 | $43.64 – $81.74 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $67.67 | $51.06 – $89.60 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $66.24 | $46.78 – $85.54 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $61.43 | $41.02 – $78.49 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $61.30 | $42.09 – $88.17 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $62.16 | $44.11 – $80.67 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $65.64 | $47.68 – $81.62 | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $58.45 | $43.13 – $74.47 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $65.05 | $47.24 – $82.73 | Good |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $65.30 | $46.67 – $94.71 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $63.05 | $39.65 – $79.56 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $71.12 | $47.44 – $91.60 | Undetermined |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $66.38 | $37.94 – $82.61 | Undetermined |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $64.35 | $40.15 – $80.27 | Undetermined |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $67.18 | $44.20 – $85.35 | 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.