NOC 2021 · 42203 · TEER 2
Instructors of persons with disabilities
Unit group 42203 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Instructors of persons with disabilities teach children and adults using a variety of techniques to facilitate communication, rehabilitation, social skills and increased independence. They are employed in rehabilitation centres, specialized educational institutes and throughout the school system.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- braille instructor
- braille teacher
- deafblind intervenor
- finger-spelling teacher
- instructor of persons who are blind
- instructor of persons who are deaf
- instructor of persons who are hard of hearing
- instructor of persons with a learning disability
- instructor of persons with a mobility impairment
- instructor of persons with a visual impairment
- instructor of persons with developmental disabilities
- instructor of persons with disabilities
- instructor of persons with intellectual disabilities
- instructor of persons with special needs
- job coach for persons with disabilities
- lip-reading instructor
- lip-reading teacher
- orientation and mobility instructor for persons with a visual impairment
- orientation and mobility instructor of persons who are blind
- orientation and mobility instructor
- orientation and mobility teacher for persons who are blind
- orientation and mobility teacher of persons with a visual impairment
- rehabilitation instructor for persons who are blind
- rehabilitation instructor of persons with a visual impairment
- rehabilitation teacher for persons who are blind
- rehabilitation teacher of persons with a visual impairment
- rehabilitation teacher
- sign language instructor
- sign language teacher
- special education technician - persons with disabilities
- special programs instructor for persons with disabilities
- teacher for persons with autism
- teacher for persons with intellectual disabilities
- teacher of braille
- teacher of persons who are blind
- teacher of persons who are deaf
- teacher of persons who are hard of hearing
- teacher of persons who are hearing impaired
- teacher of persons with a mobility impairment
- teacher of persons with a visual impairment
- teacher of persons with developmental disabilities
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
$30.00 an hour
Low $20.00, high $35.90
Where it pays most
- Côte-Nord · Quebec$32.59
- Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Quebec$32.14
- Lanaudière · Quebec$32.11
- Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$32.09
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$32.09
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 | $24.50 | $18.16 – $40.44 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $31.89 | $21.96 – $42.66 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $30.21 | $19.50 – $43.50 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $21.60 | $16.43 – $29.59 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $32.93 | $25.00 – $36.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $27.50 | $19.23 – $35.90 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $26.43 | $19.85 – $39.62 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $27.91 | $18.86 – $41.64 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $29.01 | $20.00 – $33.00 | 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 47 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 | $24.15 | $18.00 – $38.37 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $25.84 | $17.26 – $38.55 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $26.34 | $19.77 – $35.99 | Undetermined |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $25.73 | $18.99 – $32.13 | Undetermined |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $28.22 | $20.49 – $36.46 | Undetermined |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $28.01 | $19.41 – $38.40 | Undetermined |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $20.86 | $17.12 – $29.46 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $22.24 | $18.20 – $30.00 | Undetermined |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $20.59 | $16.86 – $29.41 | Undetermined |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $20.70 | $16.79 – $28.20 | Undetermined |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $19.79 | $16.19 – $24.82 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $32.14 | $23.69 – $39.99 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $32.01 | $23.52 – $39.59 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $32.09 | $23.32 – $39.52 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $32.09 | $23.86 – $38.32 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $32.05 | $22.89 – $38.97 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $31.35 | $23.13 – $38.64 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $32.06 | $22.53 – $39.51 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $31.33 | $22.62 – $38.94 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $32.04 | $23.97 – $39.25 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $32.11 | $23.30 – $39.84 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $32.02 | $23.13 – $39.59 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $31.43 | $23.44 – $38.44 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $31.28 | $24.14 – $39.10 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $31.83 | $23.38 – $38.79 | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $31.66 | $23.54 – $45.03 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $32.59 | $24.37 – $40.97 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $30.36 | $21.78 – $41.60 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $29.18 | $21.07 – $39.18 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $29.83 | $20.89 – $41.68 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $30.52 | $22.00 – $40.23 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $24.95 | $21.04 – $34.78 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $29.10 | $20.88 – $37.96 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $28.78 | $22.04 – $38.24 | Undetermined |
| Northwest | Ontario | $30.09 | $22.43 – $40.99 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $25.66 | $20.36 – $34.38 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $29.69 | $21.89 – $42.44 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $25.30 | $20.87 – $36.99 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $24.64 | $18.08 – $32.02 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $26.52 | $18.00 – $37.19 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $28.63 | $19.92 – $39.83 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $26.93 | $20.02 – $37.99 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $29.01 | $20.00 – $33.00 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $26.95 | $20.75 – $39.30 | Undetermined |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $25.37 | $21.79 – $35.59 | Undetermined |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $27.21 | $22.39 – $37.50 | 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.