NOC 2021 · 41401 · TEER 1
Economists and economic policy researchers and analysts
Unit group 41401 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Economists and economic policy researchers and analysts conduct research, monitor data, analyze information and prepare reports and plans to resolve economic and business problems and develop models to analyze, explain and forecast economic behaviour and patterns. They advise on matters such as finance, fiscal and monetary policy, international trade, agricultural and natural resource commodities and labour and industrial markets. They are employed by government departments and agencies and throughout the private sector in associations, unions, research organizations, banks and investment firms.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- agricultural economist
- business analyst - economics
- business economist
- business intelligence analyst
- business intelligence analyst - economic research
- consumer advisor - economics
- development economist
- econometrician
- economic advisor
- economic analyst
- economic consultant
- economic policy adviser
- economic policy analyst
- economic policy researcher
- economic research group supervisor
- economist
- energy economist
- farm economist
- financial economist
- financial market economist
- fiscal economics analyst
- forest economist
- forest resources economist
- general economist
- health economist
- human resources economist
- industrial economist
- industrial relations economist
- industrial trade economist
- international trade economist
- investment economist
- labour economist
- labour market information analyst
- land use economist
- mathematical economist
- natural resources economist
- price economist
- regional economist
- resource economist
- risk management analyst
- salary analyst - economic policy
- social economist
- tax economist
- territorial resources economist
- trade analyst
- trade economist
- transport economist
- wage analyst - economic policy
- welfare economist
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
$48.08 an hour
Low $33.65, high $71.79
Where it pays most
- Ottawa · Ontario$58.95
- Montérégie · Quebec$51.09
- Outaouais · Quebec$50.81
- Avalon Peninsula · Newfoundland and Labrador$50.38
- Muskoka--Kawarthas · Ontario$50.15
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 | $48.35 | $37.44 – $93.75 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $46.69 | $33.33 – $61.54 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $45.38 | $31.75 – $65.93 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $43.00 | $33.33 – $47.18 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $46.00 | $32.74 – $83.59 | Limited |
| Ontario | $51.28 | $35.71 – $71.79 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $44.53 | $29.59 – $62.11 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $47.80 | $33.68 – $64.64 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $50.00 | $40.87 – $63.11 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $45.67 | $35.90 – $70.00 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | $48.88 | $35.77 – $64.24 | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 37 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 | $50.38 | $37.44 – $93.75 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $45.38 | $28.21 – $65.93 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $38.31 | $28.63 – $51.24 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $41.17 | $29.91 – $54.03 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $39.74 | $29.01 – $52.08 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $49.00 | $37.38 – $67.10 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $47.67 | $32.37 – $60.71 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $45.57 | $31.14 – $60.17 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $45.23 | $29.73 – $60.65 | Undetermined |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $42.45 | $29.51 – $56.59 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $51.09 | $33.24 – $69.41 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $48.93 | $32.17 – $72.84 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $47.88 | $31.79 – $67.67 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $48.64 | $31.54 – $62.84 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $47.14 | $32.29 – $62.48 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $50.81 | $34.70 – $79.35 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $48.45 | $32.10 – $67.86 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $48.57 | $34.32 – $64.31 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $58.95 | $42.56 – $67.69 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $47.74 | $33.38 – $66.16 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $50.15 | $34.46 – $66.42 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $45.00 | $29.23 – $72.12 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $47.60 | $32.64 – $66.98 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $48.55 | $32.64 – $69.33 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $47.93 | $32.98 – $72.21 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $48.67 | $34.26 – $77.91 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $47.37 | $33.02 – $65.39 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $49.76 | $34.94 – $69.65 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $44.51 | $30.62 – $61.55 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $44.90 | $30.21 – $60.18 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $49.07 | $36.00 – $69.00 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $47.33 | $35.75 – $61.14 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $49.83 | $33.27 – $76.35 | Limited |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $47.63 | $34.78 – $67.50 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $49.39 | $34.31 – $72.16 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $43.43 | $33.65 – $70.00 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $48.55 | $33.32 – $67.21 | Limited |
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.