NOC 2021 · 51120 · TEER 1
Producers, directors, choreographers and related occupations
Unit group 51120 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Producers, directors, choreographers and professionals in related occupations oversee and control the technical and artistic aspects of film, television, video game, radio, dance and theatre productions. They are employed by film production companies, radio and television stations, video game companies, broadcast departments, advertising companies, sound recording studios, record production companies and dance companies. They may also be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- art director - graphic design
- art director - motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts
- artistic director - motion picture
- assistant director
- assistant director - motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts
- audiovisual (AV) producer
- broadcasting director
- broadcasting producer
- broadcasting sports director
- casting director
- choreographer
- cinematographer
- cyber-choreographer
- director - motion picture
- director - motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts
- director of photography
- film director
- film editor
- film producer
- filmmaker
- floor director - performing arts
- motion picture director
- motion picture producer
- motion picture production director
- movie director
- movie producer
- multimedia audio producer
- performing arts artistic director
- producer - performing arts
- producer-director
- production designer - motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts
- production director - motion picture
- program director - broadcasting
- radio director
- radio producer
- record producer
- recording director
- stage director - performing arts
- stage producer
- technical director - broadcasting
- technical director - motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts
- technical producer
- technical producer - motion pictures, broadcasting and performing arts
- television director
- television director-producer
- television producer
- video director
- video game art director
- video game producer
- video games project manager
- video illustrator - multimedia work
- video maker
- video producer
- visual effects (VFX) production manager
- visual effects producer
- visual effects project manager
- visual effects technical director - motion pictures
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
$41.03 an hour
Low $22.00, high $70.00
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$42.85
- Outaouais · Quebec$41.33
- Stratford--Bruce Peninsula · Ontario$41.18
- Montérégie · Quebec$41.15
- Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$40.70
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 | $35.85 | $25.17 – $51.60 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $35.16 | $18.37 – $49.85 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $31.68 | $20.08 – $54.48 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $34.53 | $23.56 – $50.44 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $40.00 | $22.22 – $58.79 | Limited |
| Ontario | $39.90 | $18.27 – $56.65 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $38.94 | $24.29 – $54.81 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $26.85 | $20.00 – $33.65 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $35.97 | $23.96 – $49.45 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $41.99 | $24.58 – $69.53 | 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 41 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 | $35.16 | $22.52 – $57.03 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $32.49 | $20.16 – $55.00 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $33.50 | $24.79 – $60.38 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $32.28 | $23.15 – $52.96 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $38.34 | $27.94 – $53.16 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $35.95 | $25.17 – $51.68 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $40.70 | $27.71 – $60.89 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $40.28 | $27.56 – $60.47 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $39.69 | $29.09 – $58.51 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $38.46 | $27.50 – $58.77 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $41.15 | $27.41 – $68.02 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $40.02 | $26.28 – $64.88 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $39.86 | $29.16 – $63.12 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $40.57 | $29.10 – $62.18 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $39.21 | $26.49 – $59.18 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $41.33 | $29.25 – $60.65 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $36.24 | $26.79 – $51.09 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $39.72 | $25.37 – $59.48 | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $35.89 | $25.51 – $52.21 | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $38.83 | $27.33 – $60.17 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $38.77 | $25.18 – $51.25 | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $36.69 | $26.61 – $51.90 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $40.38 | $18.27 – $50.48 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $37.63 | $26.17 – $58.45 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $39.12 | $28.16 – $60.58 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $37.54 | $26.43 – $54.46 | Very limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $37.79 | $27.95 – $56.03 | Limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $41.18 | $27.62 – $59.69 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $36.21 | $26.02 – $56.07 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $38.41 | $30.81 – $56.60 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $33.66 | $24.29 – $54.81 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $26.85 | $20.00 – $33.65 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $35.49 | $25.58 – $55.19 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $35.39 | $25.66 – $56.70 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $38.25 | $23.23 – $63.00 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $42.85 | $24.60 – $70.00 | 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) · 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.