NOC 2021 · 74204 · TEER 4
Utility maintenance workers
Unit group 74204 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Utility maintenance workers locate, repair, install and perform maintenance work to various equipment and facilities, such as water filtration and distribution plants, waste water treatment plants and power plants. They may also work on exterior and underground gas mains and distribution lines. They are employed by municipal, provincial and federal public works departments, private contractors under contract with government public works departments and gas distribution companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- damage prevention technician
- distribution and maintenance worker - utilities
- field measurement hand - utilities
- gas leak inspector
- gas leak locator
- gas leak surveyor
- gas main leak inspector
- gas main leak locator
- gas main leakage tester
- gas main maintenance and repairman/woman
- gas maintenance worker
- gas meter installer
- gas regulator
- gas utility operator
- hydrant and valve maintenance worker
- line locator - utilities
- maintenance utility worker
- pipe locator - utilities
- pipeline maintenance worker
- pipeline patrolman/woman
- pipeline rehabilitation worker
- power pole inspector
- troubleshooter - pipeline
- underground lines inspector - utilities
- utility locator
- utility maintenance worker
- utility plant maintenance worker
- utility pole inspector
- utility pole tester
- water main maintenance man/woman
- water main maintenance worker
- water meter installer
- water supply maintenance worker
- water system maintenance worker
- water utilities plant maintenance man/woman
- waterworks maintenance worker
- waterworks repairman/woman
- waterworks utility servicer
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 $23.00, high $48.08
Where it pays most
- Edmonton · Alberta$36.19
- Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River · Alberta$36.19
- Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake · Alberta$36.19
- Ottawa · Ontario$36.06
- Muskoka--Kawarthas · Ontario$36.06
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 | $30.14 | $20.00 – $36.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $30.14 | $20.00 – $36.00 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $30.00 | $17.00 – $30.20 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $30.95 | $24.16 – $42.51 | Limited |
| Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Limited |
| Manitoba | $27.00 | $22.00 – $40.00 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $26.68 | $19.04 – $36.82 | Good |
| Alberta | $36.19 | $22.00 – $61.79 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $36.21 | $31.80 – $50.00 | 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 44 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $27.80 | $21.35 – $41.17 | Undetermined |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $27.26 | $20.64 – $37.03 | Undetermined |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $26.07 | $22.60 – $28.76 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | $31.55 | $23.82 – $37.06 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $36.06 | $25.00 – $43.00 | Moderate |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $28.01 | $23.28 – $35.28 | Undetermined |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $26.33 | $19.73 – $33.11 | Undetermined |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $27.00 | $23.00 – $35.00 | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $27.57 | $19.56 – $41.50 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $25.91 | $19.15 – $34.97 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $26.98 | $19.85 – $36.89 | Good |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Red Deer | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $36.19 | $22.00 – $61.79 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $36.19 | $22.00 – $61.79 | Moderate |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | $36.19 | $22.00 – $61.79 | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $33.41 | $27.33 – $42.91 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $35.00 | $31.80 – $48.08 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $34.12 | $26.13 – $46.58 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $32.22 | $24.77 – $38.71 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $33.36 | $23.83 – $60.96 | 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).
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.