NOC 2021 · 84101 · TEER 4
Oil and gas well drilling and related workers and services operators
Unit group 84101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Oil and gas well drilling workers operate drilling and service rig machinery as intermediate members of the rig crew. Oil and gas well services operators drive trucks and operate specialized hydraulic pumping systems to place cement in wells or to treat wells with chemicals, sand mixtures or gases to stimulate production. They are employed by drilling and well service contractors and by petroleum producing companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- acid treater - oil field services
- acid truck driver - oil field services
- acidizer - oil field services
- ballast control operator - offshore drilling rig
- blender operator - oil field services
- blending machine operator - oil field services
- carbon dioxide truck operator - oil field services
- cement truck driver - oil field services
- cementer - oil field services
- cementing equipment operator - oil field services
- chemical services operator - oil field services
- chemical truck operator - oil field services
- coiled tubing operator - oil field services
- control room operator - offshore drilling
- derrick worker - oil and gas drilling
- derrickhand
- derrickhand - offshore drilling
- derrickhand - oil and gas drilling
- derrickman/woman
- derrickman/woman - oil and gas drilling
- dynamic positioning operator - offshore drilling
- formation fracturing operator
- formation fracturing operator - oil field services
- frac driver - oil field services
- motorhand - offshore drilling
- motorhand - oil and gas drilling
- motorman/woman - oil and gas drilling
- nitrogen operator
- nitrogen operator - oil field services
- nitrogen truck operator - oil field services
- offshore drilling rig technician
- oil well acidizer
- oil well cementer - oil field services
- pipeline locator - oil field services
- power-tong operator
- production tubing operator - oil field services
- pumper - oil field services
- pumper operator - oil field services
- reeled tubing operator - oil field services
- rig technician - motorhand
- rig technician - oil field services
- seismic buried facilities locator
- snubbing-unit operator
- well treatment blender operator - oil field services
- well treatment pump operator - oil field services
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
$40.00 an hour
Low $25.00, high $47.30
Where it pays most
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$42.00
- Northeast · British Columbia$41.75
- Camrose--Drumheller · Alberta$41.60
- Calgary · Alberta$41.50
- Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$41.00
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 | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $25.90 | $19.50 – $36.00 | Undetermined |
| Ontario | $30.00 | $22.94 – $41.60 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | $41.00 | $27.79 – $47.30 | Very limited |
| Saskatchewan | $41.00 | $26.00 – $47.30 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $40.63 | $29.00 – $47.30 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $41.75 | $27.09 – $47.50 | 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 13 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $40.00 | $24.50 – $47.00 | Moderate |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $41.00 | $26.00 – $47.30 | Good |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $42.00 | $34.00 – $47.70 | Limited |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $41.60 | $28.00 – $46.00 | Moderate |
| Calgary | Alberta | $41.50 | $32.00 – $47.30 | Limited |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $40.00 | $26.25 – $47.30 | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $40.00 | $28.50 – $47.30 | Limited |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $40.00 | $25.00 – $48.97 | Limited |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $41.75 | $27.09 – $47.50 | Limited |
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 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.