NOC 2021 · 72422 · TEER 2
Electrical mechanics
Unit group 72422 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Electrical mechanics maintain, test, rebuild and repair electric motors, transformers, switchgear and other electrical apparatus. They are employed by independent electrical repair shops, service shops of electrical equipment manufacturers and maintenance departments of manufacturing companies. 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.
- armature repairman/woman
- armature winder repairer
- automotive-generator and starter repairer
- circuit breaker mechanic
- coil connector repairer
- coil winder and repairer
- electric meter repairer
- electric meter repairer apprentice
- electric meter technician
- electric motor mechanic
- electric motor repairer
- electric motor repairer and tester
- electric motor repairer-tester
- electric motor repairman/woman
- electric motor systems technician
- electric motor winder
- electric motor winder-repairer
- electrical apparatus mechanic
- electrical equipment mechanic trainee
- electrical instrument mechanic
- electrical instrument repairer
- electrical mechanic
- electrical mechanic - electrical utilities
- electrical mechanic (except avionics)
- electrical mechanic apprentice
- electrical mechanic trainee
- electrical mechanics group leader
- electrical mechanics lead hand
- electrical motor coil winder-repairer
- electrical rewind mechanic
- electrical transformer repairer
- generator repairer
- generator repairman/woman
- high-voltage power transformer repairer
- industrial coil winder-repairer
- industrial motor winder-repairer
- meter repair electrical mechanic
- motor coil winder-repairer
- power transformer repairer
- power transformer repairman/woman
- storage battery repairer
- switchgear repair electrical mechanic
- transformer coil repairer
- transformer repairer
- transformer repairman/woman
- winder-electrician
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
$31.00 an hour
Low $24.00, high $43.00
Where it pays most
- Edmonton · Alberta$45.98
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$41.55
- Calgary · Alberta$41.51
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$41.21
- Cariboo · British Columbia$40.10
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 | $33.83 | $28.24 – $50.82 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $34.96 | $24.71 – $41.41 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $30.75 | $24.00 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $37.50 | $21.64 – $45.00 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $30.97 | $22.53 – $50.34 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $43.76 | $29.08 – $57.05 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $41.38 | $30.53 – $53.68 | 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 30 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 | $32.03 | $21.46 – $42.98 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $30.75 | $24.00 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $30.75 | $24.00 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $30.00 | $25.00 – $36.40 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $31.03 | $24.00 – $34.04 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $30.75 | $24.00 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $33.00 | $28.85 – $47.00 | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $30.00 | $26.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | $31.00 | $20.00 – $42.00 | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $30.75 | $24.00 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $30.75 | $24.00 – $40.00 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $30.00 | $24.00 – $37.50 | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $34.51 | $26.05 – $43.49 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $35.28 | $24.90 – $49.77 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $36.34 | $25.63 – $47.96 | Undetermined |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $37.33 | $27.35 – $46.34 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $35.13 | $25.21 – $43.60 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $34.98 | $25.91 – $44.41 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $30.08 | $22.41 – $47.84 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $41.51 | $27.03 – $50.31 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $45.98 | $32.42 – $58.06 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $41.21 | $29.28 – $54.08 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $41.55 | $29.55 – $53.36 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $40.10 | $32.09 – $51.19 | 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.