NOC 2021 · 94133 · TEER 4
Inspectors and graders, textile, fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing
Unit group 94133 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Inspectors and graders in textile, fabric, fur and leather products manufacturing inspect and grade textile, fabric, fur and leather products. They are employed by textile companies, leather tanning and fur dressing establishments and garment, fur and leather products manufacturers.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- blue-leather grader
- boot and shoe grader
- boot and shoe inspector
- boot and shoe sorter
- canvas goods inspector
- carpet inspector
- cloth examiner
- cloth grader
- cloth inspector
- cloth measurer
- cloth sampler
- cloth sorter
- cloth tester
- clothing inspector
- cloth-measuring machine tender
- colour grader - textiles
- colour matcher - textiles
- cushion and cover inspector
- cushion and furniture-coverings manufacturing inspector
- draper
- fabric examiner
- fabric grader
- fabric inspector
- fabric manufacturing inspector
- fabric sampler
- fibre examiner - textiles
- fibre grader - textiles
- fibre inspector - textiles
- finishing inspector - textiles
- fitting room inspector - fabric products manufacturing
- foundation garments inspector
- fur grader
- fur matcher - fur products manufacturing
- fur sorter
- garment final inspector
- garment inspector
- garment manufacturing inspector
- glove and mitten examiner
- grader - textiles
- greige-cloth examiner
- hat fur sorter
- hat inspector
- hide and pelt processing inspector
- hide grader
- hide inspector
- hide sorter
- hosiery grader
- hosiery inspector
- hosiery pairer
- hosiery sizer
- inspecting machine tender - textiles
- inspector - fabric products manufacturing
- inspector - fur products manufacturing
- inspector - textiles
- jacket manufacturing inspector
- knitted fabric inspector
- knitting inspector
- leather glove examiner
- leather goods inspector
- leather grader
- leather inspector
- leather sorter
- leather stock inspector
- leather tanneries inspector
- loom inspector
- narrow fabric examiner
- parachute inspector - fabric products manufacturing
- pelt grader - hide and pelt processing
- pelt processing inspector
- perch operator
- perch operator - textiles
- percher - textiles
- preshrinking process tester - textiles
- quality control inspector - textiles
- quality control tester - textiles
- quality controller - textiles
- roving weight gauger - textiles
- sample checker - textiles
- sample preparer - textiles
- sampler - textiles
- seconds inspector-grader
- shade matcher - textiles
- shirt inspector
- shoe inspector
- skein yarn examiner - textiles
- stocking inspector
- swatch checker - textiles
- textile grader
- textile inspector
- textile product sampler
- textile products inspector
- textile sampler
- textile shader
- textile tester
- thread inspector - textiles
- trimming material inspector
- warp tension tester - textiles
- weaving inspector
- wool fleece grader
- wool grader
- yarn and spun yarn inspector
- yarn examiner
- yarn inspector
- yarn tester
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
$17.50 an hour
Low $15.50, high $24.00
Where it pays most
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$18.00
- Montréal · Quebec$17.75
- Toronto · Ontario$17.60
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 | $19.00 | $16.10 – $24.64 | Limited |
| Ontario | $17.60 | $17.60 – $24.00 | Limited |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $18.73 | $15.75 – $28.00 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $18.00 | $17.85 – $21.41 | 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 5 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $17.75 | $16.10 – $22.50 | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $17.60 | $17.60 – $18.25 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $18.00 | $17.85 – $21.52 | 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.