NOC 2021 · 72101 · TEER 2
Tool and die makers
Unit group 72101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Tool and die makers make, repair and modify custom-made, prototype or special tools, dies, jigs, fixtures and gauges using various metals, alloys and plastics which require precise dimensions. They are employed primarily in manufacturing industries such as automobile, aircraft, metal fabrication, electrical machinery and plastics, and in tool and die, mould making and machine shops. This unit group also includes metal patternmakers and metal mould makers. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aircraft jig and template maker
- aircraft jig and tool maker
- apprentice tool and die maker
- bench die cutter
- bench die fitter
- bench die sinker
- bench jig maker
- bench stamping die maker
- bench tool maker
- carbide tool maker
- diamond saw maker
- diamond tool maker
- die cutter
- die cutter - metalworking
- die finisher
- die fitter
- die maker
- die maker - jewellery
- die mouldmaker
- die reamer
- die repairer
- die repairman/woman
- die sinker
- die sinker - metalworking
- diecast diemaker
- extrusion die template maker
- forging die finisher
- forging die maker
- gauge maker - tool and die
- injection moulding tool and die maker
- injection mouldmaker
- jewellery die cutter
- jewellery die sinker
- jig and form maker
- jig maker
- jig maker - die casting and plastic moulding
- jig maker - metal products manufacturing
- jig-bore tool maker
- journeyman/woman tool and die maker
- metal mould finisher
- metal mould maker
- metal mouldmaker
- metal patternmaker
- metal patternmaker apprentice
- model maker - tool and die
- motor vehicle jig builder
- mould maker - plastics processing
- mould maker apprentice
- mouldmaker - aircraft
- precision tool maker
- progressive die fitter
- stamping die finisher
- steel-rule die maker
- template maker - tool and die
- tire mould repairer
- tool and die maker
- tool and die maker apprentice
- tool and die preparer
- tool and die repairer
- tool fitter
- tool maintainer
- tool maintenance man/woman
- tool repairer
- tool repairman/woman
- toolmaker
- wire-drawing die maker
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
$34.00 an hour
Low $22.50, high $44.65
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$37.02
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$37.00
- Muskoka--Kawarthas · Ontario$35.18
- London · Ontario$35.00
- Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie · Ontario$34.87
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 | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $32.99 | $24.35 – $40.22 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $33.12 | $24.09 – $43.69 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $34.00 | $22.00 – $42.50 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $31.62 | $22.66 – $41.46 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $32.41 | $24.91 – $49.69 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $32.96 | $23.81 – $42.47 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $36.05 | $26.38 – $46.55 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 23 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $29.54 | $22.77 – $37.88 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $31.24 | $24.54 – $38.49 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $29.85 | $22.50 – $37.19 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $30.04 | $22.81 – $39.04 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $33.64 | $25.60 – $43.84 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $32.88 | $23.45 – $39.80 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $33.65 | $23.79 – $48.92 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $31.62 | $22.74 – $41.89 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $33.01 | $25.97 – $43.89 | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $33.92 | $25.19 – $44.24 | Undetermined |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $33.42 | $25.38 – $44.99 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $35.18 | $26.35 – $46.42 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $34.00 | $25.00 – $38.00 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $34.87 | $24.89 – $45.14 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $37.00 | $23.00 – $45.37 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $35.00 | $23.08 – $44.65 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $29.00 | $19.00 – $52.00 | Limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $34.21 | $26.61 – $45.74 | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | $32.17 | $23.39 – $41.87 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $31.20 | $23.97 – $38.14 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $31.46 | $24.26 – $39.40 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $32.48 | $25.31 – $39.92 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $37.02 | $26.45 – $46.09 | Moderate |
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).
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.