NOC 2021 · 75212 · TEER 5
Public works and maintenance labourers
Unit group 75212 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Public works and maintenance labourers perform a variety of labouring activities to maintain sidewalks, streets, roads and similar areas. They are employed by public works departments in all levels of government or by private contractors under contract to governments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- casual worker - public works
- dumpman/woman
- garbage collector
- garbage receptacle maintainer
- garbage truck loader
- general labourer - public works
- helper - garbage collection
- highway line painter
- labourer - sanitary service
- labourer crew leader - public works
- line-painting machine operator - highways and roads
- maintenance labourer - public works
- manual sewer pipe cleaner
- manual sidewalk cleaner
- manual street cleaner
- manual street sweeper
- municipal elemental worker
- municipal general labourer
- municipal labourer
- parking meter collector
- playground maintenance man/woman
- public works labourer
- road maintenance worker
- road maintenance worker - public works
- sanitation man/woman
- sanitation worker
- seasonal worker - public works
- sewer maintenance worker
- sewer system maintenance worker
- sidewalk cleaner
- sidewalk snowplow operator
- sidewalk-cleaning equipment operator
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
$26.95 an hour
Low $18.00, high $34.70
Where it pays most
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$31.32
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$31.00
- Kootenay · British Columbia$30.68
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$29.96
- Montérégie · Quebec$29.00
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 | $20.00 | $16.00 – $30.64 | Limited |
| Prince Edward Island | $21.00 | $18.57 – $25.00 | Limited |
| Nova Scotia | $20.00 | $16.50 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $23.00 | $17.00 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Quebec | $26.99 | $20.00 – $33.57 | Limited |
| Ontario | $26.70 | $17.60 – $34.00 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $22.00 | $17.00 – $29.00 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | $27.00 | $18.80 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $27.51 | $19.53 – $37.38 | Very limited |
| British Columbia | $31.00 | $20.00 – $36.95 | Limited |
| Yukon Territory | $27.19 | $17.94 – $33.60 | Very limited |
| Northwest Territories | $28.99 | $17.46 – $42.09 | Limited |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
By economic region
The 68 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 | $23.00 | $16.00 – $32.00 | Limited |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $21.86 | $16.00 – $26.42 | Limited |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $23.03 | $17.89 – $28.12 | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $21.06 | $17.50 – $27.46 | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $20.66 | $16.50 – $24.70 | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | $20.00 | $16.50 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $22.25 | $18.03 – $27.21 | Limited |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $21.82 | $16.53 – $28.14 | Limited |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $23.01 | $16.64 – $29.89 | Limited |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $21.07 | $16.18 – $26.62 | Limited |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $22.79 | $17.56 – $28.36 | Limited |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $25.04 | $19.90 – $26.70 | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $27.00 | $20.02 – $31.75 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $26.83 | $22.00 – $33.57 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $26.47 | $20.11 – $30.71 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $26.00 | $21.00 – $31.00 | Limited |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $28.53 | $21.59 – $34.16 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $29.00 | $17.00 – $33.00 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $27.99 | $20.00 – $38.82 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $27.78 | $20.96 – $33.61 | Very limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $27.93 | $21.03 – $35.20 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $27.33 | $20.71 – $34.55 | Very limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $26.30 | $20.36 – $29.50 | Very limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $26.30 | $20.58 – $32.96 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $25.58 | $20.02 – $31.83 | Limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $26.88 | $20.79 – $33.06 | Moderate |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | $27.40 | $20.22 – $34.16 | Very limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $26.50 | $17.60 – $34.00 | Very limited |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $28.00 | $18.80 – $28.00 | Limited |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $27.08 | $20.72 – $33.79 | Very limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $27.49 | $18.56 – $42.33 | Very limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $27.85 | $19.70 – $36.00 | Very limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $25.50 | $17.60 – $35.40 | Very limited |
| London | Ontario | $27.82 | $20.13 – $33.38 | Very limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $27.46 | $21.56 – $33.50 | Very limited |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $26.76 | $19.93 – $32.18 | Limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $26.80 | $19.03 – $32.26 | Limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $25.97 | $19.82 – $30.26 | Very limited |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $22.00 | $17.00 – $29.00 | Undetermined |
| South Central | Manitoba | $22.76 | $18.23 – $28.51 | Limited |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $22.72 | $17.99 – $38.56 | Limited |
| North Central | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $22.00 | $16.00 – $25.00 | Very limited |
| Interlake | Manitoba | $22.74 | $18.00 – $29.53 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $27.00 | $18.80 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $28.05 | $22.50 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $27.00 | $18.80 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $27.00 | $18.80 – $30.00 | Moderate |
| Northern | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $28.30 | $20.66 – $37.63 | Limited |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $26.02 | $18.39 – $34.29 | Limited |
| Calgary | Alberta | $28.74 | $21.28 – $38.58 | Very limited |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $27.10 | $19.05 – $35.23 | Very limited |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $28.46 | $19.98 – $36.10 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $28.87 | $20.58 – $36.81 | Very limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $31.32 | $21.00 – $41.00 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $31.00 | $19.00 – $35.00 | Limited |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $29.96 | $21.02 – $36.70 | Limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $30.68 | $23.21 – $37.35 | Very limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $28.41 | $20.38 – $35.08 | Limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $28.45 | $20.46 – $35.80 | Limited |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $27.25 | $19.82 – $35.28 | 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.