NOC 2021 · 53201 · TEER 3
Coaches
Unit group 53201 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Coaches prepare and train individual athletes or teams for competitive events. They are employed by national and provincial sports organizations, professional and amateur sports teams, sports clubs and universities or they may be self-employed. This unit group also includes sports scouts who identify and recruit athletes for professional sports teams. They are employed by professional sports organizations.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- amateur athletics team coach
- amateur sports team coach
- amateur track and field team coach
- athletic boxing trainer
- athletics coach
- athletics team coach
- baseball coach
- baseball manager-coach
- baseball scout
- baseball team coach
- basketball scout
- basketball team coach
- bobsled coach
- bobsleigh coach
- boxing trainer
- coach
- cycling coach
- figure skating coach
- football coach
- football scout
- football team coach
- gymnastics coach
- head coach
- hockey coach
- hockey scout
- hockey team coach
- junior hockey coach
- kickboxing trainer
- lacrosse coach
- lacrosse scout
- lacrosse team coach
- luge coach
- luge instructor
- national team coach
- professional athletes team coach
- professional sports scout
- professional sports team coach
- professional team coach
- provincial team coach
- ski coach
- soccer coach
- sports coach
- sports scout
- swim coach
- swimming coach
- tennis coach
- track and field athletes coach
- track and field coach
- track and field team coach
- volleyball coach
- water-polo coach
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
$25.00 an hour
Low $16.00, high $43.27
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$30.00
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$27.12
- Halifax · Nova Scotia$26.79
- Winnipeg · Manitoba$26.76
- Saint John--St. Stephen · New Brunswick$26.74
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 | $20.89 | $16.72 – $32.10 | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $28.17 | $19.68 – $37.25 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $27.49 | $18.89 – $34.45 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $26.06 | $18.19 – $38.34 | Undetermined |
| Ontario | $25.00 | $18.00 – $45.00 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | $29.46 | $19.27 – $42.35 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $26.48 | $17.34 – $40.34 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $25.00 | $18.00 – $45.00 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $30.00 | $18.50 – $42.31 | 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 27 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 | $26.79 | $19.61 – $35.60 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $26.25 | $20.33 – $35.19 | Undetermined |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $26.74 | $20.94 – $36.65 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $25.73 | $18.84 – $37.16 | Undetermined |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $24.56 | $18.90 – $33.82 | Undetermined |
| Estrie | Quebec | $23.76 | $18.22 – $32.30 | Undetermined |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $23.20 | $17.93 – $32.34 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $24.76 | $18.95 – $35.79 | Undetermined |
| Montréal | Quebec | $25.68 | $18.74 – $39.60 | Undetermined |
| Laval | Quebec | $26.05 | $19.94 – $40.89 | Undetermined |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $24.37 | $19.31 – $33.55 | Undetermined |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $24.40 | $18.47 – $34.92 | Undetermined |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $25.87 | $19.72 – $42.38 | Undetermined |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $24.26 | $18.10 – $32.96 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $23.88 | $19.09 – $34.56 | Undetermined |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $25.00 | $18.00 – $45.00 | Undetermined |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $25.00 | $18.00 – $45.00 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $25.00 | $18.00 – $48.13 | Undetermined |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $25.00 | $18.00 – $45.00 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $26.76 | $18.72 – $47.52 | Limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $26.53 | $21.69 – $39.64 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $26.09 | $18.69 – $37.33 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $25.00 | $18.00 – $44.71 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $26.61 | $19.52 – $38.64 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $30.00 | $20.00 – $42.79 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $27.12 | $21.34 – $38.82 | Very limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $25.77 | $19.49 – $34.89 | 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 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.