NOC 2021 · 94123 · TEER 4
Lumber graders and other wood processing inspectors and graders
Unit group 94123 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Lumber graders and other wood processing inspectors and graders inspect and grade lumber, shingles, veneer, waferboard and similar wood products to identify defects, ensure conformance to company specifications and classify products according to industry standards. They are employed by 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.
- board grader - wood processing
- flooring grader - wood processing
- grader - wood processing
- grader tallyman/woman - wood processing
- green lumber grader
- inspector - wood processing
- lumber grader
- lumber inspector
- lumber marker
- panel inspector - wood processing
- particleboard grader - wood processing
- planer grader - wood processing
- planer mill grader - wood processing
- plywood and veneer matcher - wood processing
- plywood grader
- plywood grader - wood processing
- plywood inspector
- plywood inspector - wood processing
- pole inspector - wood processing
- shake inspector - wood processing
- shingle inspector - wood processing
- stake grader - wood processing
- tie and timber inspector
- treated pole tester - wood processing
- veneer and plywood grader - wood processing
- veneer grader
- veneer grader - wood processing
- wood marker - wood processing
- wood measurer
- wood measurer - wood processing
- wood processing grader
- wood processing inspector
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
$27.50 an hour
Low $20.00, high $38.00
Where it pays most
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$35.34
- Thompson--Okanagan · British Columbia$33.79
- North Coast · British Columbia$33.70
- Kootenay · British Columbia$32.08
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$31.02
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 | $24.08 | $19.54 – $25.86 | Moderate |
| Quebec | $25.00 | $18.96 – $33.75 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $24.78 | $20.03 – $31.33 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $34.92 | $27.00 – $44.33 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $29.00 | $22.00 – $38.00 | 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 26 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $23.76 | $18.12 – $27.72 | Moderate |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $25.48 | $17.94 – $29.85 | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $23.97 | $20.00 – $28.89 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $23.50 | $19.31 – $26.76 | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $23.78 | $20.21 – $28.32 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $24.33 | $20.26 – $30.20 | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $24.40 | $19.83 – $30.30 | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $23.38 | $20.02 – $29.90 | Good |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $24.20 | $20.30 – $27.77 | Undetermined |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $23.33 | $20.02 – $27.20 | Moderate |
| Outaouais | Quebec | $24.75 | $20.19 – $29.43 | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $26.96 | $23.82 – $35.33 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $25.84 | $21.06 – $32.03 | Undetermined |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $26.81 | $21.19 – $32.14 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $26.40 | $22.05 – $34.10 | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $35.34 | $28.74 – $46.53 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $31.02 | $24.94 – $37.93 | Good |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $29.00 | $24.34 – $33.00 | Good |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $33.79 | $26.01 – $42.74 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $32.08 | $26.57 – $40.57 | Moderate |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $29.66 | $22.31 – $39.12 | Good |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $33.70 | $26.68 – $42.55 | 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.