NOC 2021 · 42204 · TEER 2
Religion workers
Unit group 42204 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Religion workers include brothers, nuns, monks, religious education workers and others who provide support to ministers of religion or to a religious community and who perform certain functions associated with the practice of a religion. They may perform these duties in churches, synagogues, temples or other places of worship; in institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons; or in industrial facilities, corporate enterprises; or they may work in private practice.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- animator - spiritual guidance
- brother/sister - religion
- cantor
- Christian Science nurse - non-medical
- Christian science practitioner
- Christian science worker
- church worker
- corporate intercessor
- deacon
- deaconess
- exegete
- faith healer
- gospel worker
- hazzan
- home mission worker - religion
- missionary
- mohel
- monk
- mother superior/religious superior
- novice - religion
- nun
- panthee
- pastoral animator
- postulant
- ragi
- religious education worker
- religious superior - religious community
- religious superior/mother superior
- Salvation Army captain
- Salvation Army field worker
- Salvation Army worker
- sister/brother - religion
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
$20.19 an hour
Low $15.00, high $37.61
Where it pays most
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$27.96
- Outaouais · Quebec$26.55
- Red Deer · Alberta$25.72
- Edmonton · Alberta$25.34
- Calgary · Alberta$24.77
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 | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $19.72 | $16.50 – $30.40 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $24.80 | $17.35 – $32.59 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $23.31 | $16.62 – $32.33 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $25.00 | $18.00 – $43.54 | Undetermined |
| Ontario | $21.00 | $17.60 – $36.00 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | $22.42 | $16.00 – $32.14 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $20.46 | $15.35 – $31.58 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $24.68 | $17.47 – $34.64 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $19.96 | $17.85 – $25.00 | Undetermined |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 30 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 | $24.67 | $18.33 – $30.79 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $22.86 | $17.46 – $29.21 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $23.40 | $18.57 – $33.19 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $24.44 | $18.16 – $37.37 | Undetermined |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $24.50 | $19.23 – $33.72 | Undetermined |
| Estrie | Quebec | $24.49 | $17.88 – $33.41 | Undetermined |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $22.29 | $17.92 – $29.12 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $23.89 | $18.20 – $34.54 | Undetermined |
| Montréal | Quebec | $24.49 | $18.04 – $34.71 | Undetermined |
| Laval | Quebec | $24.39 | $18.66 – $31.99 | Undetermined |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $24.69 | $18.29 – $34.02 | Undetermined |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $23.33 | $18.63 – $34.06 | Undetermined |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $26.55 | $20.11 – $36.11 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $23.76 | $18.58 – $32.45 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $23.33 | $19.37 – $32.41 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $21.00 | $17.60 – $36.00 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $21.63 | $17.60 – $30.77 | Undetermined |
| London | Ontario | $22.42 | $17.60 – $24.23 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $21.00 | $18.03 – $24.73 | Undetermined |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $22.79 | $18.32 – $31.44 | Undetermined |
| South Central | Manitoba | $23.65 | $18.05 – $33.68 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $22.13 | $16.00 – $27.98 | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $21.25 | $18.33 – $28.01 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $24.54 | $17.82 – $27.86 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $21.94 | $17.76 – $25.87 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $27.96 | $19.45 – $47.55 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $24.77 | $17.83 – $34.87 | Undetermined |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $25.72 | $18.90 – $41.64 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $25.34 | $18.91 – $34.98 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $19.96 | $17.85 – $25.00 | 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.