NOC 2021 · 62200 · TEER 2
Chefs
Unit group 62200 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Chefs plan and direct food preparation and cooking activities and who prepare and cook meals and specialty foods. They are employed in restaurants, hotels, hospitals and other health care institutions, central food commissaries, clubs and similar establishments, and on ships.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- assistant chef
- banquet chef
- chef
- chef de cuisine
- chef de partie
- chef pâtissier
- cold foods chef
- corporate chef
- entremetier
- executive chef
- executive sous-chef
- first sous-chef
- garde-manger chef
- head chef
- head rotisseur
- master chef
- meat chef
- meat, poultry and fish chef
- pasta chef
- pastry chef
- rotisserie chef
- saucier
- second chef
- sous-chef
- specialist chef
- specialty foods chef
- supervising chef
- sushi chef
- working sous-chef
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
$23.00 an hour
Low $16.03, high $32.69
Where it pays most
- Capitale-Nationale · Quebec$25.00
- Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean · Quebec$25.00
- Côte-Nord · Quebec$25.00
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$25.00
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$24.89
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 | $22.00 | $16.00 – $34.62 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $19.00 | $16.50 – $26.00 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $19.00 | $16.50 – $28.85 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $19.00 | $15.65 – $25.64 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $24.00 | $17.00 – $34.21 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $34.19 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $21.25 | $16.00 – $35.58 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $20.19 | $15.35 – $42.07 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $23.00 | $16.10 – $31.00 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $23.75 | $17.85 – $35.90 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | $26.12 | $20.05 – $57.82 | Limited |
| Northwest Territories | $32.17 | $20.65 – $48.10 | Moderate |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 62 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 | $22.00 | $16.00 – $34.62 | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $24.39 | $16.84 – $49.45 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $21.00 | $16.54 – $36.04 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $22.00 | $16.50 – $32.00 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $20.00 | $16.50 – $29.81 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $20.50 | $16.50 – $30.00 | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $19.00 | $16.50 – $25.00 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $20.00 | $16.00 – $32.00 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $20.00 | $15.65 – $25.00 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $19.00 | $15.65 – $25.64 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $19.00 | $15.65 – $25.64 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $22.00 | $17.00 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $24.20 | $17.25 – $32.50 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $25.00 | $18.29 – $32.88 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $23.00 | $18.00 – $35.00 | Very limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $23.85 | $17.50 – $32.00 | Very limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $23.17 | $17.00 – $35.40 | Very limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $24.00 | $17.00 – $34.18 | Very limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $24.00 | $17.00 – $33.80 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $23.26 | $16.10 – $35.00 | Very limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $24.39 | $17.00 – $36.87 | Very limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $24.50 | $17.50 – $34.74 | Very limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $23.43 | $17.00 – $34.90 | Very limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $24.25 | $18.00 – $40.00 | Very limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $23.00 | $17.00 – $31.71 | Very limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $25.00 | $18.00 – $36.00 | Very limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $25.00 | $19.00 – $37.00 | Very limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $34.19 | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $34.19 | Limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $34.19 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $34.62 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $34.19 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $26.92 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $20.00 | $17.60 – $37.50 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $34.19 | Limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $22.00 | $17.60 – $34.19 | Limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $21.39 | $17.60 – $34.89 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $21.74 | $17.70 – $35.33 | Very limited |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $21.21 | $17.15 – $25.92 | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $21.25 | $16.00 – $37.50 | Limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $21.00 | $15.35 – $40.87 | Moderate |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $20.19 | $15.35 – $42.07 | Moderate |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $15.35 – $43.03 | Moderate |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $19.86 | $15.60 – $27.58 | Moderate |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $20.19 | $15.35 – $42.07 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $20.28 | $16.48 – $26.58 | Limited |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $22.20 | $16.86 – $32.92 | Limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $23.00 | $17.31 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $24.01 | $17.66 – $34.45 | Limited |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $23.30 | $16.39 – $38.99 | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $22.00 | $15.00 – $42.00 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $23.49 | $17.33 – $36.10 | Undetermined |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $25.00 | $19.00 – $36.00 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $23.00 | $17.85 – $36.67 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $24.89 | $17.85 – $31.25 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $24.16 | $18.42 – $36.52 | Very limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $23.75 | $17.85 – $35.90 | Limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $24.17 | $18.57 – $33.83 | 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.