NOC 2021 · 72602 · TEER 2
Deck officers, water transport
Unit group 72602 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Deck officers, water transport, operate and command ships or self-propelled vessels to transport passengers and cargo on oceans and coastal and inland waters, and supervise and coordinate the activities of deck crews. This unit group also includes Canadian Coast Guard deck officers. They are employed by marine transportation companies and federal government departments. 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 master - minor waters
- captain - water transport
- Coast Guard vessel chief officer
- Coast Guard vessel commanding officer
- Coast Guard vessel first watchkeeping officer
- Coast Guard vessel navigation officer
- Coast Guard vessel second officer
- Coast Guard vessel second watchkeeping officer
- Coast Guard vessel third officer
- Coast Guard vessel third watchkeeping officer
- Coast Guard vessel watchkeeping officer
- commanding officer - water transport
- deck officer - cadet
- deck officer - water transport
- dredge captain
- dredge commanding officer
- dredge mate
- ferryboat captain
- ferryboat first mate
- ferryboat master
- ferryboat operator
- first mate - inland waters
- foreign-going first mate
- foreign-going second mate
- harbour pilot
- home trade first mate
- home trade master
- home trade mate
- home trade second mate
- hovercraft master
- inland navigation mate
- master - inland waters
- master - minor waters
- master - water transport
- master mariner
- mate - water transport
- merchant navy mate
- navigation officer - water transport
- offshore drilling rig first mate
- offshore rig captain
- offshore rig commanding officer
- passenger ship captain
- pilot - water transport
- river pilot
- riverboat captain
- second deck officer
- second mate
- second mate - inland waters
- self-propelled barge captain
- self-propelled barge deck officer
- self-propelled drilling rig captain
- self-propelled drilling rig first mate
- self-propelled drilling rig master
- self-propelled drilling rig mate
- self-propelled oil rig deck officer
- ship chief officer
- ship first mate
- ship junior mate
- ship master
- ship operation chief officer
- ship pilot
- ship second mate
- ship third mate
- ship watchkeeping mate
- ship's captain
- ship's mate
- tugboat captain
- tugboat master
- tugboat skipper
- watchkeeping officer - water transport
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
$41.36 an hour
Low $24.33, high $72.12
Where it pays most
- Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Quebec$52.22
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$49.97
- Lanaudière · Quebec$46.42
- Bas-Saint-Laurent · Quebec$45.83
- Montréal · Quebec$45.78
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 | $40.00 | $23.08 – $70.19 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $45.03 | $26.05 – $66.66 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $40.01 | $23.63 – $70.08 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $45.67 | $23.75 – $60.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $38.46 | $17.60 – $57.69 | Good |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $44.92 | $28.78 – $62.71 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $42.00 | $23.50 – $60.50 | 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 31 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 | $43.96 | $24.33 – $70.19 | Good |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $34.00 | $26.00 – $57.08 | Good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $34.00 | $23.08 – $74.18 | Good |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $34.00 | $26.00 – $57.08 | Good |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $45.03 | $26.05 – $66.66 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $45.03 | $26.05 – $66.66 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $45.03 | $26.05 – $66.66 | Moderate |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $40.72 | $25.62 – $63.24 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $52.22 | $33.57 – $81.91 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $45.83 | $27.65 – $73.98 | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $45.67 | $35.00 – $60.00 | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $45.78 | $26.42 – $72.06 | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $46.42 | $23.60 – $87.56 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $44.29 | $29.01 – $65.29 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $38.46 | $17.60 – $57.69 | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $38.46 | $17.60 – $57.69 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $40.75 | $23.00 – $58.82 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $49.97 | $25.00 – $66.46 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $42.00 | $23.50 – $60.50 | Good |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Good |
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) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (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.