NOC 2021 · 52113 · TEER 2
Audio and video recording technicians
Unit group 52113 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Audio and video recording technicians operate equipment to record, mix and edit sound, music and videotape, for motion pictures, television and radio programs, videos, recordings and live events. They are employed by multimedia companies, film, video and concert production companies, sound recording firms, theatre and dance companies, educational establishments, clubs, hotels, bands, radio stations, television networks and video production and editing companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- assistant sound editor
- audio engineer - recording studio
- audio operator
- audio operator assistant
- audio recording studio operator
- audio technician
- audiovisual (AV) technician
- colour timer - video
- digital effects specialist
- dubbing machine operator
- electronic news gathering (ENG) editor
- electronic video graphics operator
- film technician
- film technician - motion picture
- imagery technician - Canadian Armed Forces
- master record cutter
- multimedia sound technician
- multimedia sound-effects supervisor
- music editor - recording studio
- music mixer
- music or sound mixer
- playback operator
- postproduction technician
- production sound recordist
- public address (P.A.) operator
- public address (P.A.) system operator
- radio recorder
- radio technician
- recording engineer
- recording studio technician
- re-recording mixer
- sound cutter
- sound editor
- sound effects editor
- sound effects specialist
- sound engineer
- sound engineer (except professional engineers)
- sound engineer assistant
- sound keyer
- sound librarian - audio-recording
- sound mix engineer
- sound mixer
- sound operator
- sound recorder
- sound recording engineer
- sound recording supervisor
- sound recordist
- sound technician
- sound-recording and video-recording reproduction equipment operator
- sound-recording equipment operator
- stereo tape editor
- video and sound recorder
- video editor
- video recorder
- video recording technician
- video sound mixer
- video technician
- video-editing equipment operator
- video-recording equipment operator
- videotape editor
- videotape postproduction editor
- videotape recording (VTR) editor
- videotape recording (VTR) operator
- videotape technician
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
$32.86 an hour
Low $21.00, high $45.46
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$36.28
- Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie · Ontario$35.78
- Toronto · Ontario$33.81
- Ottawa · Ontario$32.50
- Montérégie · Quebec$32.28
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 | $27.74 | $17.25 – $40.37 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $30.80 | $20.50 – $40.48 | Limited |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $32.50 | $21.00 – $48.20 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $31.50 | $20.21 – $41.67 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $30.00 | $20.00 – $40.82 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $36.26 | $25.00 – $46.12 | Very limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 26 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 | $30.40 | $20.50 – $40.00 | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $32.28 | $22.00 – $46.00 | Very limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $31.34 | $21.80 – $46.26 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Very limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $30.00 | $21.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $32.50 | $21.00 – $48.20 | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $33.81 | $22.00 – $50.00 | Very limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $35.78 | $20.75 – $50.44 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $30.40 | $21.00 – $38.86 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $31.75 | $20.21 – $42.00 | Very limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $31.72 | $20.00 – $39.13 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $30.00 | $20.00 – $40.82 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $32.06 | $23.08 – $41.13 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $36.28 | $25.44 – $46.80 | Very limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
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 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.