NOC 2021 · 72011 · TEER 2
Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications occupations
Unit group 72011 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Contractors and supervisors in electrical trades and telecommunications occupations supervise and coordinate the activities of workers classified in the following unit groups: Electricians (72200), Industrial electricians (72201), Power system electricians (72202), Electrical power line and cable workers (72203), Telecommunications line and cable installers and repairers (72204) and Telecommunications equipment installation and cable television service technicians (72205). They are employed in a wide range of establishments; places of employment are indicated in the above unit group descriptions. Contractors may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- cable installation and repair foreman/woman - telecommunications
- cable installation contractor
- cable installation foreman/woman
- cable installation supervisor
- cable installers and repairers foreman/woman - telecommunications
- cable maintenance and repair supervisor
- cable splicers foreman/woman - telecommunications
- cable splicing foreman/woman - telecommunications
- cable television system installers and repairers foreman/woman
- cable workers front line supervisor
- cablevision technician supervisor
- cablevision technicians foreman/woman
- chief electrician
- communications foreman/woman
- construction electricians and repairers foreman/woman
- construction electricians foreman/woman
- construction electricians supervisor
- electric meter installers foreman/woman
- electric meter installers supervisor
- electrical appliances installation foreman/woman
- electrical construction contractor
- electrical construction foreman/woman
- electrical contractor
- electrical equipment installation and repair foreman/woman
- electrical foreman/woman
- electrical installation contractor
- electrical installation supervisor
- electrical load tester supervisor
- electrical power inspector and tester supervisor
- electrical supervisor - drilling rig
- electrical systems contractor
- electrical wiring inspector supervisor
- electrical wiring installation contractor
- electrician foreman/woman
- electricians supervisor
- emergency team foreman/woman - telecommunications
- factory electrician supervisor
- front line supervisor - power line maintenance
- head-office repair supervisor
- industrial electrical systems foreman/woman
- industrial electricians foreman/woman
- industrial electricians supervisor
- installation foreman/woman - telecommunications
- installers and repairers foreman/woman - telecommunications
- line and cable contractor
- line and cable installation and maintenance supervisor
- line and cable installation foreman/woman
- line and cable installers foreman/woman
- line and cable repairer foreman/woman - power lines
- line and cable workers supervisor
- line foreman/woman - power lines
- line foreman/woman - telecommunications
- maintenance electricians foreman/woman
- maintenance electricians supervisor
- marine electricians foreman/woman
- meter installers and repairers foreman/woman
- microwave system foreman/woman
- plant electrician supervisor
- power line and cable workers foreman/woman
- power line maintenance workers front line supervisor
- power line repair foreman/woman
- power line repairers foreman/woman
- power line service foreman/woman
- power line technician foreman/woman
- power linemen/women and cable installers supervisor
- power system electricians supervisor
- power systems electricians foreman/woman
- power systems electricians supervisor
- residential electrician supervisor
- signaling system installation foreman/woman
- telecommunication cable installation foreman/woman
- telecommunication installation and repair worker foreman/woman
- telecommunication line installation, repair and testing foreman/woman
- telecommunication line installation, repair and testing supervisor
- telecommunication line installers foreman/woman
- telecommunication line installers, repairers and testers foreman/woman
- telecommunication line maintenance foreman/woman
- telecommunication line maintenance supervisor
- telecommunication line repair foreman/woman
- telecommunication line repairers foreman/woman
- telecommunication line service supervisor
- telecommunication service foreman/woman
- telecommunication system installers and repairers foreman/woman
- telecommunications contractor
- telecommunications supervisor
- telephone equipment installers foreman/woman
- telephone installation foreman/woman
- telephone installation supervisor
- trouble foreman/woman - telecommunications
- troubleshooter foreman/woman - telecommunications
- underground electrical conduit foreman/woman
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
$44.79 an hour
Low $30.00, high $64.00
Where it pays most
- Nord-du-Québec · Quebec$50.00
- Northeast · Ontario$50.00
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$48.00
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue · Quebec$47.27
- Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Quebec$46.97
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 | $41.00 | $30.00 – $57.00 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $35.69 | $25.78 – $57.70 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $39.00 | $23.00 – $55.00 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $35.38 | $23.60 – $53.07 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $46.15 | $33.00 – $58.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $45.05 | $28.85 – $69.00 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $42.00 | $24.00 – $62.00 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $45.00 | $36.96 – $67.31 | Good |
| Alberta | $42.00 | $29.33 – $64.00 | Good |
| British Columbia | $44.00 | $33.65 – $62.50 | 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 66 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 | $41.00 | $30.00 – $58.00 | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $39.00 | $23.00 – $55.00 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $39.00 | $23.00 – $55.00 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $39.00 | $23.00 – $55.00 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $35.48 | $25.89 – $52.03 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $35.60 | $26.05 – $52.76 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $38.82 | $28.38 – $57.47 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $31.87 | $24.30 – $50.99 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $46.97 | $31.46 – $59.97 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $43.28 | $30.46 – $54.76 | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $43.88 | $32.06 – $57.09 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $46.15 | $33.00 – $58.00 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $44.01 | $35.00 – $51.98 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $46.15 | $33.00 – $58.00 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $46.15 | $33.00 – $58.00 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $45.23 | $31.39 – $59.10 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $45.67 | $33.97 – $56.25 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $47.27 | $32.50 – $62.98 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $46.15 | $33.00 – $58.00 | Very good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $46.48 | $35.06 – $62.55 | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | $50.00 | $42.00 – $58.91 | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $45.05 | $27.00 – $80.77 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $41.10 | $27.32 – $56.61 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $45.06 | $29.30 – $62.01 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $42.44 | $28.85 – $75.00 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $43.21 | $29.27 – $58.83 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $42.00 | $35.00 – $64.96 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $45.05 | $28.85 – $69.00 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $43.59 | $29.20 – $59.47 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $44.36 | $28.94 – $59.02 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $50.00 | $25.50 – $67.40 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $44.29 | $30.93 – $61.58 | Good |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $41.73 | $29.90 – $58.59 | Moderate |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $42.25 | $29.73 – $62.00 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $40.87 | $23.08 – $50.00 | Moderate |
| Interlake | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $40.75 | $34.19 – $75.00 | Good |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $39.42 | $23.08 – $56.08 | Very good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $40.70 | $26.47 – $56.95 | Very good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $41.72 | $28.92 – $55.67 | Good |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $42.16 | $30.68 – $56.88 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $43.18 | $29.50 – $57.56 | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $43.54 | $31.06 – $57.18 | Good |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $44.23 | $30.88 – $59.89 | Good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $43.20 | $30.91 – $59.41 | Good |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $42.00 | $29.33 – $64.00 | Good |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $48.00 | $28.85 – $72.00 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $44.00 | $34.00 – $63.54 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $44.40 | $30.00 – $56.73 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $43.00 | $34.50 – $62.50 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $45.79 | $29.00 – $62.27 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $45.99 | $30.88 – $67.32 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $44.67 | $30.83 – $63.61 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $44.08 | $29.57 – $62.91 | 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.