NOC 2021 · 42200 · TEER 2

Paralegals and related occupations

Unit group 42200 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

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What this group covers

Paralegals prepare legal documents and conduct research to assist lawyers or other professionals. Independent paralegals provide legal services to the public as allowed by government legislation, or provide paralegal services on contract to law firms or other establishments. Justices of the peace administer oaths, issue subpoenas, summonses and warrants and perform other court-related duties such as conducting bail hearings. Notaries public administer oaths, take affidavits, sign legal documents and perform other activities according to the scope of their practice. Trademark agents advise clients on intellectual property matters. Paralegals are employed by law firms, by record search companies and in legal departments throughout the public and private sectors. Independent paralegals are usually self-employed. Justices of the peace are employed by federal, provincial, municipal, and territorial courts. Notaries public are employed by government and in the public and private sectors or they may be self-employed. Trademark agents are employed by law firms and legal departments throughout the public and private sectors, trademark development and search firms or they may be self-employed.

Example job titles

As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.

abstractor
brief writer - law
British Columbia notary public
citizenship judge
clerk of probate
collection paralegal
commercial law clerk
commercial law paralegal
commissioner of affidavits
commissioner of marriages
contract clerk - law
conveyance clerk
copyright agent
corporate law and litigation clerk
corporate law clerk
corporate paralegal
corporate securities law clerk
corporation paralegal
court and tribunal agent
criminal law clerk
criminal law paralegal
family law clerk
family law paralegal
foreclosure clerk
foreclosure paralegal
independent paralegal
insurance law clerk
insurance paralegal
judicial officer
judicial officer - courts
justice of the peace
justice of the peace magistrate
labour law clerk
labour law paralegal
land registrar
land titles clerk
land titles examiner
law clerk
law clerk to judge
lay notary public
lease and title clerk
legal researcher
legal services officer - courts
legal technician
litigation law clerk
litigation paralegal
mortgage and real estate paralegal
notary public
notary public (British Columbia)
notary public (outside Quebec)
notary public clerk
oil and gas property paralegal
oil and gas rights law clerk
oil and gas rights paralegal
paralegal
presiding justice of the peace
property paralegal
prothonotary
Queen's Bench registrar
real estate law clerk
real estate paralegal
registered trademark agent
registrar of bankruptcy
registrar of deeds
registrar of probate
registrar of wills
registry officer - marriages
tax law clerk
tax paralegal
title and lease clerk
title examiner
title searcher
trademark agent
transfer-of-title clerk
wills and estates law clerk
wills and estates paralegal

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.

$33.05 an hour

Low $21.63, high $52.19

Where it pays most

Lower Mainland · British Columbia$40.87
Edmonton · Alberta$39.56
Cariboo · British Columbia$35.78
Ottawa · Ontario$34.87
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$34.18

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

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by province and territory.
Where	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Newfoundland and Labrador	$26.01	$18.00 – $37.84	Undetermined
Prince Edward Island	$26.00	$20.65 – $32.97	Moderate
Nova Scotia	$28.21	$17.00 – $42.01	Moderate
New Brunswick	$30.26	$20.00 – $46.15	Good
Quebec	$28.57	$20.56 – $45.11	Moderate
Ontario	$33.00	$20.71 – $54.95	Moderate
Manitoba	$32.72	$21.25 – $67.20	Moderate
Saskatchewan	$30.00	$20.00 – $85.00	Good
Alberta	$33.65	$25.96 – $55.00	Moderate
British Columbia	$39.58	$26.43 – $50.67	Moderate
Yukon Territory	$36.61	$30.28 – $54.69	Undetermined
Northwest Territories	Not published	Not published	Undetermined
Nunavut	Not published	Not published	Undetermined

By economic region

The 55 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.

Median wage and three-year employment outlook for this occupation, by economic region.
Where	Province	Median hourly	Low to high	Outlook 2025–2027
Avalon Peninsula	Newfoundland and Labrador	$25.64	$18.00 – $33.33	Undetermined
West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador	Newfoundland and Labrador	$24.76	$19.75 – $29.90	Undetermined
Cape Breton	Nova Scotia	$27.04	$22.58 – $34.67	Moderate
North Shore	Nova Scotia	$27.29	$22.13 – $35.17	Moderate
Annapolis Valley	Nova Scotia	$23.62	$19.40 – $29.86	Moderate
Southern	Nova Scotia	$25.67	$21.22 – $33.50	Moderate
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$28.05	$21.73 – $37.22	Moderate
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$30.26	$20.00 – $46.15	Good
Saint John--St. Stephen	New Brunswick	$26.19	$21.20 – $32.26	Good
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$26.31	$20.93 – $33.73	Good
Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Quebec	$27.72	$22.39 – $34.07	Undetermined
Bas-Saint-Laurent	Quebec	$27.99	$21.65 – $35.25	Good
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$28.57	$20.00 – $42.03	Moderate
Chaudière-Appalaches	Quebec	$27.91	$21.69 – $37.71	Limited
Estrie	Quebec	$29.59	$20.00 – $38.46	Moderate
Centre-du-Québec	Quebec	$26.27	$20.35 – $32.72	Good
Montérégie	Quebec	$32.00	$22.00 – $40.11	Moderate
Montréal	Quebec	$29.08	$21.26 – $38.68	Moderate
Laval	Quebec	$28.85	$22.00 – $44.86	Moderate
Lanaudière	Quebec	$29.08	$21.67 – $38.33	Moderate
Laurentides	Quebec	$28.66	$20.63 – $36.98	Good
Outaouais	Quebec	$26.00	$17.50 – $45.11	Moderate
Abitibi-Témiscamingue	Quebec	$31.98	$21.87 – $36.50	Moderate
Mauricie	Quebec	$26.35	$19.52 – $34.97	Moderate
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean	Quebec	$28.87	$22.34 – $37.31	Moderate
Ottawa	Ontario	$34.87	$21.50 – $56.41	Moderate
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$30.54	$23.04 – $42.05	Good
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$29.53	$22.73 – $39.89	Moderate
Toronto	Ontario	$33.80	$22.00 – $47.42	Moderate
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$33.25	$20.00 – $45.05	Moderate
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$31.25	$22.00 – $50.00	Moderate
London	Ontario	$31.33	$22.16 – $41.59	Moderate
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$29.62	$23.23 – $47.39	Moderate
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$29.40	$22.30 – $37.78	Moderate
Northeast	Ontario	$27.47	$21.63 – $72.12	Good
Northwest	Ontario	$30.77	$21.97 – $37.50	Moderate
Southeast	Manitoba	$28.95	$22.25 – $39.85	Undetermined
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$30.71	$24.47 – $42.63	Moderate
Interlake	Manitoba	$29.92	$23.26 – $41.81	Undetermined
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$31.69	$24.11 – $40.62	Good
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$32.50	$20.00 – $35.00	Good
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$30.14	$24.63 – $36.75	Undetermined
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$31.68	$24.95 – $37.09	Undetermined
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$31.23	$24.74 – $37.70	Undetermined
Calgary	Alberta	$33.46	$25.06 – $44.39	Moderate
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$34.18	$24.76 – $39.43	Moderate
Red Deer	Alberta	$32.48	$24.04 – $38.72	Undetermined
Edmonton	Alberta	$39.56	$28.85 – $53.00	Moderate
Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River	Alberta	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$33.85	$26.47 – $44.28	Good
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$40.87	$26.44 – $50.67	Moderate
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$33.75	$26.14 – $43.13	Moderate
Kootenay	British Columbia	$33.54	$26.70 – $39.90	Undetermined
Cariboo	British Columbia	$35.78	$27.67 – $45.76	Undetermined
Northeast	British Columbia	$32.39	$27.14 – $38.62	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.