NOC 2021 · 41404 · TEER 1
Health policy researchers, consultants and program officers
Unit group 41404 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Health policy researchers, consultants and program officers conduct research, produce reports and administer health care policies and programs. They are employed by government departments and agencies, consulting establishments, universities, research institutes, hospitals, community agencies, educational institutions, professional associations, non-governmental organizations and international organizations.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- child health care programs planning officer
- decision support analyst - health
- decision support specialist - health
- dental health consultant
- drug and alcohol abuse consultant
- health and social services institution accreditation officer
- health and social services liaison officer
- health care association program officer
- health care consultant
- health care planner
- health care planning consultant
- health care planning officer
- health care program administration officer
- health care researcher
- health educator
- health policy development officer
- health policy research analyst
- health program information analyst
- health promotion program officer
- health research officer
- health services consultant
- health services program consultant
- health services research officer
- health services researcher
- home-care programs consultant
- labour force planning consultant - health sector
- long-term care program consultant
- medical adjudicator - Canada Pension Plan
- mental health programs consultant
- nursing home guidelines development officer
- nursing home policy development officer
- planning coordinator - district health council program
- policy development officer - nursing homes
- wellness consultant
- wellness coordinator
- wellness program coordinator
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
$43.08 an hour
Low $27.00, high $60.00
Where it pays most
- Ottawa · Ontario$52.31
- Centre-du-Québec · Quebec$48.65
- Mauricie · Quebec$48.27
- Laval · Quebec$47.80
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue · Quebec$47.77
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 | $41.21 | $27.00 – $52.20 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | $44.62 | $35.12 – $62.50 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $44.51 | $30.38 – $64.10 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $37.00 | $23.71 – $46.15 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $38.00 | $25.00 – $54.95 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $44.62 | $26.50 – $62.42 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $44.00 | $27.92 – $55.58 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $42.00 | $26.67 – $54.15 | Good |
| Alberta | $43.50 | $29.23 – $59.00 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $41.03 | $28.24 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | $48.85 | $33.26 – $66.98 | Good |
| Northwest Territories | $56.41 | $42.15 – $66.21 | Moderate |
| Nunavut | $50.26 | $34.00 – $67.35 | Moderate |
By economic region
The 63 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 | $42.03 | $32.00 – $53.59 | Good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $41.49 | $27.13 – $51.35 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $45.00 | $16.50 – $51.51 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $41.89 | $29.66 – $55.59 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $42.36 | $19.00 – $64.10 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $43.92 | $31.65 – $57.77 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $44.51 | $30.00 – $72.12 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $38.47 | $25.97 – $51.93 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $38.36 | $27.19 – $54.81 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $37.39 | $24.94 – $50.99 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $37.00 | $23.71 – $46.15 | Good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $40.46 | $30.65 – $55.97 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $47.32 | $30.17 – $65.35 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $46.13 | $30.36 – $61.21 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $44.80 | $28.88 – $59.55 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $46.23 | $33.87 – $63.03 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $48.65 | $33.17 – $65.50 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $47.44 | $31.80 – $65.32 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $43.80 | $26.96 – $56.23 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $47.80 | $25.00 – $77.88 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $45.73 | $31.46 – $61.40 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $44.61 | $29.98 – $60.03 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $46.67 | $28.85 – $57.90 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $47.77 | $33.82 – $63.48 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $48.27 | $33.48 – $66.05 | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $45.45 | $25.23 – $59.86 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $46.76 | $31.65 – $65.09 | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $52.31 | $41.54 – $64.39 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $45.13 | $37.38 – $53.30 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $43.71 | $29.39 – $60.13 | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $42.60 | $24.04 – $58.97 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $42.05 | $28.00 – $56.92 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $41.79 | $25.27 – $63.57 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $41.50 | $28.24 – $57.91 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $38.00 | $31.00 – $54.95 | Good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $42.85 | $30.08 – $58.87 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $44.62 | $26.50 – $62.42 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $41.33 | $31.32 – $54.07 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $37.07 | $25.89 – $55.12 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $35.65 | $23.09 – $49.36 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $44.71 | $29.18 – $55.38 | Limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $42.48 | $31.19 – $60.50 | Good |
| Parklands | Manitoba | $36.34 | $24.09 – $53.98 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $41.92 | $27.70 – $55.88 | Good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $44.00 | $39.78 – $54.15 | Moderate |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $36.09 | $23.74 – $48.19 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $41.05 | $27.61 – $55.44 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $46.23 | $34.00 – $56.76 | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $44.04 | $33.39 – $58.69 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $42.61 | $29.33 – $56.74 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $44.65 | $33.32 – $65.71 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $43.33 | $30.22 – $58.30 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $42.00 | $38.46 – $59.00 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $41.88 | $32.00 – $58.97 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $41.03 | $26.82 – $59.19 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $43.89 | $30.79 – $60.53 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $38.00 | $33.00 – $65.00 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $38.98 | $28.82 – $52.06 | 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.