NOC 2021 · 84100 · TEER 4
Underground mine service and support workers
Unit group 84100 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Underground mine service and support workers perform a range of duties related to the operation of orepasses, chutes and conveyor systems, the construction and support of underground structures, passages and roadways, and the supply of materials and supplies to support underground mining. They are employed by coal, metal and non-metallic mineral mines.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- backfill plant operator - underground mining
- backfiller - underground mining
- blaster helper - underground mining
- bottom cager - underground mining
- brattice builder - underground mining
- bridge operator - underground mining
- brusher - underground mining
- cage tender
- cage tender - underground mining
- chute gate operator - underground mining
- chute loader - underground mining
- chute operator - underground mining
- coal hauler - underground mining
- construction worker - mines
- conveyor operator - underground mining
- conveyorman/woman - underground mining
- crusher operator - underground mining
- crusherman/woman - underground mining
- deckman/woman - underground mining
- diamond driller helper - underground mining
- drill carriage operator helper - underground mining
- driller helper - underground mining
- dryman/woman - underground mining
- extensible conveyor belt assembler - underground mining
- footman/woman - underground mining
- haulage truck driver - underground mining
- haulageman/woman - underground mining
- headman/woman - underground mining
- in-hole driller helper - underground mining
- jack operator - underground mining
- jumbo drill operator helper - underground mining
- jumbo operator helper - underground mining
- lamp keeper - underground mining
- line crew blaster - underground mining
- loading head operator - underground mining
- loading pocket operator - underground mining
- materialman/woman - underground mining
- mine attendant
- mine construction worker
- mine motorman/woman
- mine timberman/woman
- miner helper - raise mining
- motorman/woman - mines
- motorman/woman - underground mining
- nipper - underground mining
- ore handling operator - underground mining
- orepass tender - underground mining
- pipe turner - trackman/woman
- pipeworker - underground mining
- raise borer helper - underground mining
- raise miner helper
- roadmaker - underground mining
- rotary driller helper - raise mining
- rotary raise driller helper
- sand fill man/woman
- sand fill man/woman - hydraulic stowing
- service crew worker - underground mining
- shaft conveyance operator
- shuttle car operator
- skip loader - underground mining
- skip tender
- skip tender - underground mining
- sludge pump operator - underground mining
- steel form setter - underground mining
- steelwork erector - underground mining
- support miner
- timberman/woman - mines
- timberman/woman - underground mining
- top cager - underground mining
- track equipment operator - underground mining
- trackman/woman - underground mining
- trackperson - underground mining
- trainman/woman - underground mining
- trammerman/woman
- transfer hoist operator
- ventilation man/woman - underground mining
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
$38.00 an hour
Low $23.75, high $52.00
Where it pays most
- Yorkton--Melville · Saskatchewan$53.49
- West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador · Newfoundland and Labrador$49.17
- Prince Albert · Saskatchewan$46.35
- Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$46.05
- Cariboo · British Columbia$45.23
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 | $25.00 – $51.77 | Good |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $31.95 | $15.65 – $71.31 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $39.66 | $23.43 – $62.61 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $37.50 | $20.00 – $52.66 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $35.56 | $26.00 – $45.18 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | $45.37 | $28.61 – $66.91 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $43.27 | $30.00 – $45.00 | Limited |
| British Columbia | $42.48 | $28.94 – $60.02 | Very limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | $35.75 | $26.29 – $67.71 | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 28 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 | $40.92 | $26.94 – $57.97 | Good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $49.17 | $33.61 – $71.83 | Good |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $33.43 | $17.49 – $71.84 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $40.81 | $24.05 – $68.55 | Limited |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $44.38 | $29.95 – $73.30 | Undetermined |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $39.67 | $21.56 – $61.91 | Undetermined |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $38.30 | $21.42 – $56.09 | Very limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $34.57 | $21.29 – $53.69 | Very limited |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $39.39 | $24.11 – $63.19 | Undetermined |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $42.41 | $24.97 – $65.93 | Very limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $44.57 | $27.56 – $67.86 | Very limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| London | Ontario | $37.79 | $23.86 – $54.29 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $37.50 | $24.00 – $52.66 | Very limited |
| Northwest | Ontario | $44.46 | $25.38 – $70.97 | Very limited |
| Parklands | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $46.05 | $28.95 – $61.08 | Undetermined |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $53.49 | $30.41 – $78.36 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $46.35 | $29.51 – $69.26 | Undetermined |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $45.12 | $32.54 – $67.78 | Limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $43.01 | $31.03 – $64.58 | Undetermined |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $43.91 | $27.91 – $66.13 | Limited |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $45.03 | $30.37 – $68.27 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $45.23 | $30.28 – $68.57 | 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.