NOC 2021 · 92014 · TEER 2
Supervisors, forest products processing
Unit group 92014 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Supervisors in forest products processing supervise and coordinate the activities of workers engaged in pulp and paper production and wood processing and manufacturing. They are employed by pulp and paper companies, paper converting companies, sawmills, planing mills, wood treatment plants, waferboard plants and other wood processing companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- beater room foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- bleach plant foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- box making foreman/woman - paper converting
- coating room foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- core room foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- coremaking foreman/woman - paper converting
- forest products processing supervisor
- lumber grading foreman/woman - wood processing
- moulded pulp products foreman/woman
- operating team supervisor - pulp and paper
- paper coating supervisor - pulp and paper
- paper converting supervisor
- paper foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- paper inspectors foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- paper machine foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- paper machine foreman/woman
- paper mill foreman/woman
- paper mill supervisor
- paper mill workers foreman/woman
- paper product fabricating and assembling foreman/woman
- paper products makers foreman/woman - paper converting
- papermaking and finishing foreman/woman
- particleboard foreman/woman
- particleboard making foreman/woman
- plywood inspection foreman/woman - wood processing
- plywood making foreman/woman
- pulp and paper mill foreman/woman
- pulp mill foreman/woman
- pulp processing foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- pulp testers foreman/woman
- pulping foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- sawmill foreman/woman
- sawmill supervisor
- screen room foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- shake and shingle machine foreman/woman - sawmill
- shift operating supervisor - pulp and paper
- shingle mill foreman/woman - wood processing
- shingle mill foreman/woman
- shingle mill supervisor - wood processing
- tour foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- treating plant foreman/woman - wood processing
- veneer foreman/woman - wood processing
- veneer inspection foreman/woman - wood processing
- waferboard foreman/woman
- waferboard making foreman/woman - wood processing
- winding room foreman/woman - pulp and paper
- wood-treating machine foreman/woman
- wood-treating plant foreman/woman
- yard foreman/woman - pulp and paper
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
$36.06 an hour
Low $25.14, high $57.69
Where it pays most
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$43.75
- Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River · Alberta$43.75
- Cariboo · British Columbia$43.71
- Northeast · British Columbia$43.56
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$41.71
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 | $31.22 | $22.34 – $47.94 | Limited |
| New Brunswick | $35.04 | $24.00 – $51.92 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $32.00 | $25.25 – $53.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $35.55 | $28.85 – $54.95 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $29.48 | $21.65 – $43.96 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $33.56 | $23.81 – $55.23 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $38.00 | $26.00 – $57.69 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $43.50 | $28.00 – $60.00 | 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 52 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | $33.77 | $26.97 – $47.00 | Limited |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $32.81 | $25.24 – $45.27 | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $37.82 | $27.81 – $55.12 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | $31.05 | $23.87 – $42.19 | Good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $34.00 | $26.18 – $48.43 | Moderate |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $35.37 | $24.88 – $49.20 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $34.95 | $24.06 – $41.64 | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $32.64 | $25.24 – $38.51 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $35.07 | $26.35 – $48.79 | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $34.22 | $24.57 – $46.03 | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $34.41 | $25.15 – $49.03 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | $30.86 | $23.21 – $39.76 | Moderate |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $35.95 | $26.43 – $47.57 | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $33.70 | $25.35 – $40.88 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $30.89 | $25.89 – $43.94 | Moderate |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $33.22 | $26.02 – $45.10 | Moderate |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $30.79 | $24.93 – $40.94 | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | $34.62 | $25.49 – $46.65 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $33.75 | $25.64 – $45.86 | Moderate |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $35.90 | $31.00 – $39.00 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $30.39 | $24.91 – $40.92 | Moderate |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $33.63 | $25.88 – $46.60 | Moderate |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $31.20 | $26.03 – $40.57 | Very good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $34.33 | $26.70 – $47.61 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $35.09 | $28.45 – $50.37 | Limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $30.29 | $23.89 – $47.83 | Undetermined |
| Parklands | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $36.92 | $27.01 – $55.06 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $36.38 | $26.62 – $46.15 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $43.75 | $37.50 – $57.69 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $40.12 | $30.23 – $54.00 | Undetermined |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | $43.75 | $37.50 – $57.69 | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $41.52 | $27.73 – $52.14 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $36.00 | $28.00 – $49.77 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $41.71 | $29.43 – $56.36 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $41.48 | $29.88 – $57.33 | Limited |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $43.71 | $37.86 – $60.10 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $41.23 | $32.36 – $55.81 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | British Columbia | $43.56 | $34.17 – $58.27 | 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.