NOC 2021 · 72301 · TEER 2
Steamfitters, pipefitters and sprinkler system installers
Unit group 72301 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Steamfitters and pipefitters lay out, assemble, fabricate, maintain, troubleshoot and repair piping systems carrying water, steam, chemicals and fuel in heating, cooling, lubricating and other process piping systems. Sprinkler system installers fabricate, install, test, maintain and repair water, foam, carbon dioxide and dry chemical sprinkler systems in buildings for fire protection purposes. Steamfitters, pipefitters and sprinkler system installers are employed in maintenance departments of factories, plants and similar establishments, and by pipefitting and sprinkler system contractors, or they may be self-employed. 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.
- apprentice pipefitter
- apprentice pipefitter-steamfitter
- apprentice sprinkler system fitter
- apprentice steamfitter
- fire prevention and automatic suppression systems installer
- fire protection mechanic
- fire protection piping installer
- fire protection piping system installer
- fire sprinkler fitter
- journeyman/woman pipefitter
- journeyman/woman sprinkler system installer
- journeyman/woman steamfitter-pipefitter
- maintenance pipefitter
- marine pipefitter
- marine steamfitter
- pipefitter
- pipefitter - shipbuilding
- pipefitter-steamfitter
- radiator pipe installer
- railway car and locomotive pipefitter
- ship pipefitter
- ship steamfitter
- sprinkler and fire protection installer
- sprinkler fitter
- sprinkler system fitter
- sprinkler system installer
- sprinkler system installer (non-construction)
- sprinkler system installer apprentice
- steam heating installer
- steam main servicer
- steam pipefitter
- steamfitter
- steamfitter - shipbuilding
- steamfitter/pipefitter (non-construction)
- steamfitter-pipefitter
- turbine pipefitter
- welding pipefitter
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
$43.89 an hour
Low $27.00, high $55.59
Where it pays most
- Windsor--Sarnia · Ontario$50.99
- Cape Breton · Nova Scotia$47.93
- Northeast · Ontario$47.00
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$47.00
- Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$46.85
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 | $42.65 | $28.26 – $53.00 | Limited |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $45.00 | $27.50 – $60.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $43.00 | $29.84 – $53.17 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $43.88 | $26.87 – $47.40 | Limited |
| Ontario | $45.96 | $28.00 – $56.88 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $41.93 | $23.20 – $53.00 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | $46.02 | $25.00 – $54.29 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $44.90 | $26.94 – $56.77 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $42.05 | $26.00 – $59.98 | 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 59 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 | $42.65 | $28.26 – $52.54 | Limited |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $43.57 | $34.00 – $55.00 | Limited |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $43.00 | $30.00 – $52.54 | Limited |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $42.65 | $27.72 – $55.00 | Limited |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $47.93 | $33.00 – $60.00 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $43.03 | $27.65 – $60.04 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $41.25 | $21.63 – $57.96 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $45.00 | $32.84 – $56.04 | Undetermined |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $40.83 | $22.25 – $57.00 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $43.00 | $30.65 – $50.00 | Moderate |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $43.08 | $30.00 – $46.00 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $43.01 | $22.55 – $48.95 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $44.00 | $43.00 – $47.00 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $43.89 | $26.33 – $48.03 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $43.89 | $30.99 – $48.00 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $43.01 | $25.00 – $47.07 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $43.00 | $22.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $43.89 | $32.00 – $48.00 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $43.08 | $22.40 – $47.07 | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $41.60 | $24.00 – $47.58 | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $43.00 | $27.32 – $47.00 | Very limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $43.01 | $26.00 – $48.03 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $43.89 | $42.00 – $48.00 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $43.05 | $28.00 – $55.00 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $46.17 | $27.32 – $53.83 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $46.17 | $31.07 – $56.88 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $43.14 | $27.00 – $56.40 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $43.14 | $28.05 – $57.80 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $44.31 | $26.97 – $55.59 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $46.27 | $27.50 – $55.59 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $50.99 | $30.59 – $58.85 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $43.69 | $26.24 – $57.00 | Moderate |
| Northeast | Ontario | $47.00 | $32.60 – $53.43 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $41.93 | $25.75 – $49.54 | Very limited |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $47.00 | $24.93 – $57.96 | Moderate |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $46.50 | $24.12 – $53.94 | Good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $42.56 | $25.00 – $57.96 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $43.00 | $24.50 – $60.20 | Limited |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $46.85 | $28.50 – $57.29 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $40.00 | $25.00 – $54.70 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $40.00 | $26.00 – $53.00 | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $41.55 | $26.70 – $52.78 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $46.73 | $27.31 – $57.52 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $32.00 | $25.00 – $52.00 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $44.00 | $27.31 – $55.00 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $44.72 | $26.24 – $60.17 | Very limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $38.51 | $25.00 – $57.55 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $45.00 | $27.32 – $60.00 | Very limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $44.00 | $25.00 – $59.51 | Limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $33.50 | $26.00 – $45.00 | 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.