NOC 2021 · 51100 · TEER 1

Librarians

Unit group 51100 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.

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What this group covers

Librarians select, develop, organize and maintain library collections and provide advisory services for users. They are employed in libraries or other establishments with library services throughout the public and private sectors.

Example job titles

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

art librarian
associate librarian
automation librarian
bibliographer
bookmobile librarian
cataloguer - library
children's services librarian
classifier - library
computer search librarian
cybrarian
database librarian
documentation librarian
health librarian
iconographer
information and reference librarian
information services librarian
law librarian
liaison librarian
librarian
library consultant
library coordinator
library supervisor
medical librarian
multimedia librarian
music librarian
music librarian - broadcasting
periodicals librarian
reference librarian
resource sharing and processing librarian
scientific librarian
technical services librarian
unit head librarian

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.

$41.21 an hour

Low $23.08, high $67.90

Where it pays most

Laurentides · Quebec$46.60
Lanaudière · Quebec$46.49
Estrie · Quebec$45.84
Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$45.52
Montréal · Quebec$45.31

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	$38.96	$24.70 – $53.43	Undetermined
Prince Edward Island	$40.26	$28.81 – $51.76	Undetermined
Nova Scotia	$33.77	$20.00 – $50.24	Moderate
New Brunswick	$41.59	$28.21 – $57.46	Undetermined
Quebec	$45.64	$27.88 – $51.28	Moderate
Ontario	$44.24	$27.00 – $68.21	Moderate
Manitoba	$37.72	$19.93 – $62.52	Moderate
Saskatchewan	$31.32	$17.82 – $61.62	Good
Alberta	$40.88	$26.79 – $52.60	Moderate
British Columbia	$38.00	$30.00 – $65.93	Moderate
Yukon Territory	$39.84	$26.81 – $76.56	Undetermined
Northwest Territories	Not published	Not published	Undetermined
Nunavut	Not published	Not published	Undetermined

By economic region

The 39 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	$41.12	$29.50 – $60.14	Undetermined
West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador	Newfoundland and Labrador	$34.37	$26.49 – $57.62	Undetermined
Halifax	Nova Scotia	$33.77	$20.00 – $50.24	Moderate
Moncton--Richibucto	New Brunswick	$41.71	$30.22 – $60.34	Undetermined
Fredericton--Oromocto	New Brunswick	$42.07	$31.09 – $64.29	Undetermined
Capitale-Nationale	Quebec	$45.52	$31.96 – $62.10	Moderate
Estrie	Quebec	$45.84	$30.48 – $61.31	Moderate
Montérégie	Quebec	$45.04	$32.39 – $62.04	Moderate
Montréal	Quebec	$45.31	$30.65 – $63.62	Moderate
Laval	Quebec	$42.83	$31.17 – $60.41	Moderate
Lanaudière	Quebec	$46.49	$31.41 – $61.92	Undetermined
Laurentides	Quebec	$46.60	$31.33 – $64.11	Moderate
Outaouais	Quebec	$43.45	$31.09 – $58.21	Moderate
Ottawa	Ontario	$44.56	$32.55 – $64.98	Moderate
Kingston--Pembroke	Ontario	$45.10	$28.92 – $68.29	Moderate
Muskoka--Kawarthas	Ontario	$38.70	$26.36 – $54.31	Undetermined
Toronto	Ontario	$45.00	$33.00 – $73.08	Moderate
Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie	Ontario	$41.80	$29.32 – $61.99	Moderate
Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula	Ontario	$42.79	$30.09 – $62.11	Moderate
London	Ontario	$42.03	$30.00 – $58.06	Moderate
Windsor--Sarnia	Ontario	$40.22	$30.32 – $60.31	Moderate
Stratford--Bruce Peninsula	Ontario	$40.24	$28.69 – $55.55	Moderate
Northeast	Ontario	Not published	Not published	Moderate
Northwest	Ontario	$41.54	$28.41 – $59.90	Undetermined
Winnipeg	Manitoba	$40.17	$26.09 – $61.05	Moderate
Regina--Moose Mountain	Saskatchewan	$33.16	$22.58 – $56.62	Undetermined
Swift Current--Moose Jaw	Saskatchewan	$27.27	$19.81 – $43.44	Undetermined
Saskatoon--Biggar	Saskatchewan	$35.50	$23.29 – $61.63	Very good
Prince Albert	Saskatchewan	$27.13	$20.92 – $44.93	Good
Northern	Saskatchewan	Not published	Not published	Good
Lethbridge--Medicine Hat	Alberta	$34.87	$24.36 – $46.57	Undetermined
Camrose--Drumheller	Alberta	$38.01	$27.30 – $55.23	Moderate
Calgary	Alberta	$41.87	$29.66 – $57.79	Moderate
Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House	Alberta	$34.87	$24.54 – $46.25	Undetermined
Edmonton	Alberta	$41.31	$29.39 – $59.58	Moderate
Vancouver Island and Coast	British Columbia	$42.73	$31.23 – $62.96	Limited
Lower Mainland	British Columbia	$38.00	$31.59 – $65.93	Moderate
Thompson--Okanagan	British Columbia	$38.79	$27.62 – $56.59	Moderate
Kootenay	British Columbia	$40.63	$26.83 – $59.35	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.