NOC 2021 · 51114 · TEER 1
Translators, terminologists and interpreters
Unit group 51114 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Translators translate written material from one language to another. Interpreters translate oral communication from one language to another during speeches, meetings, conferences, debates and conversation, or in court or before administrative tribunals. Terminologists conduct research to itemize terms connected with a certain field, define them and find equivalents in another language. Sign language interpreters use sign language to translate spoken language and vice versa during meetings, conversations, television programs or in other instances. Translators, terminologists and interpreters are employed by government, private translation and interpretation agencies, in-house translation services, large private corporations, international organizations and the media, or they may be self-employed. Sign language interpreters work in schools and courts, and for social service agencies, interpretation services, government services and television stations, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter
- certified interpreter (C.Int.)
- certified terminologist (C.Term.)
- certified translator (C.Tr.)
- community interpreter
- conference interpreter
- consecutive interpreter
- court interpreter
- cultural interpreter
- cultural or international adaptation specialist
- deaf interpreter
- educational interpreter
- elbow interpreter
- escort interpreter
- foreign broadcast translator
- foreign news translator
- interpreter
- interpreter for persons who are deaf
- jurilinguist translator
- legal terminologist
- legal translator
- literary translator
- localiser - linguistics
- medical terminologist
- medical translator
- oral interpreter
- Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) interpreter
- relay interpreter
- reviser - translation
- scientific translator
- sign language interpreter
- sign language platform interpreter
- simultaneous interpreter
- tactile interpreter
- technical translator
- terminologist
- terminology advisor
- translator
- translator adaptor
- translator-reviser
- transliterator
- visual language interpreter
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
$33.95 an hour
Low $20.00, high $51.00
Where it pays most
- Outaouais · Quebec$41.36
- Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$37.77
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$37.07
- Montérégie · Quebec$36.96
- Bas-Saint-Laurent · Quebec$36.88
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 | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $30.00 | $16.50 – $39.90 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $30.00 | $16.00 – $42.11 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $36.26 | $24.62 – $51.92 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $25.64 | $20.00 – $50.00 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $30.00 | $16.00 – $51.28 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $33.53 | $21.62 – $49.75 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $32.28 | $19.84 – $55.66 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $33.55 | $21.72 – $54.02 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Nunavut | $48.77 | $31.48 – $70.48 | Moderate |
By economic region
The 31 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 | $30.00 | $16.50 – $39.90 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $36.88 | $26.66 – $51.65 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $37.77 | $26.97 – $51.09 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $37.07 | $25.15 – $50.94 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $33.95 | $21.50 – $48.08 | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $34.55 | $25.23 – $48.20 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $36.96 | $26.73 – $53.88 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $36.26 | $28.00 – $46.15 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $36.28 | $25.01 – $52.85 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $36.51 | $26.61 – $52.22 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $35.98 | $26.08 – $53.14 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $41.36 | $29.34 – $58.04 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $36.19 | $25.98 – $50.94 | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $33.95 | $24.88 – $52.30 | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $28.21 | $22.00 – $50.00 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $25.64 | $20.00 – $50.00 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $30.00 | $16.00 – $51.28 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $31.34 | $21.90 – $54.10 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $31.91 | $21.88 – $55.04 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $32.72 | $24.05 – $58.88 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $32.20 | $21.08 – $54.35 | Moderate |
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.