NOC 2021 · 94141 · TEER 4
Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers
Unit group 94141 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers prepare meat and poultry for further processing or for packaging for wholesale distribution. They are employed in meat and poultry slaughtering, processing and packing establishments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- air knife meat cutter - meat packing plant
- animal eviscerator - meat packing plant
- animal skinner - meat packing plant
- animal sticker - meat packing plant
- animal stunner
- beef boner
- beef boner - meat packing plant
- beef cooler worker - meat packing plant
- beef sticker - meat packing plant
- beef trimmer - meat packing plant
- beef-pluck trimmer
- benchman/woman - meat packing plant
- brisket cutter - meat packing plant
- calf skinner - meat packing plant
- carcass splitter - meat packing plant
- chicken plucker
- chuck cap puller - meat packing plant
- cutter - meat packing plant
- dehairing machine dropper - meat packing plant
- enzyme injector - food and beverage processing
- ham cutter
- ham sawyer - meat packing plant
- head boner - meat packing plant
- hog killer
- industrial butcher
- industrial meat chopper
- industrial meat cutter
- livestock killer
- meat boner
- meat chopper - meat packing plant
- meat cutter - meat packing plant
- meat dresser - meat packing plant
- meat portion cutter - meat packing plant
- meat roll tier - food and beverage processing
- meat sawyer - meat packing plant
- meat tenderizer - food and beverage processing
- meat trimmer
- meat trimmer - meat packing plant
- poultry boner
- poultry butcher - meat packing plant
- poultry dresser
- poultry eviscerator
- poultry hanger
- poultry plucker
- poultry plucker tender
- poultry preparer
- poultry slaughterer - food and beverage processing
- poultry worker - meat packing plant
- ritual slaughterer - meat packing plant
- shackle hoist operator - meat packing plant
- sheep sticker
- shohet - meat packing plant
- slaughterer
- slaughterer - meat packing plant
- slaughterhouse butcher
- trimmer - meat packing plant
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
$23.00 an hour
Low $18.00, high $26.15
Where it pays most
- Calgary · Alberta$25.80
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$25.00
- Lethbridge--Medicine Hat · Alberta$25.00
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$25.00
- Muskoka--Kawarthas · Ontario$24.59
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 | $20.49 | $18.59 – $23.27 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | $20.00 | $17.50 – $22.00 | Moderate |
| Nova Scotia | $20.00 | $17.50 – $22.00 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | $20.44 | $18.00 – $21.00 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $24.00 | $20.00 – $26.80 | Limited |
| Ontario | $22.50 | $18.70 – $26.15 | Good |
| Manitoba | $20.00 | $17.00 – $23.20 | Moderate |
| Saskatchewan | $19.00 | $15.35 – $24.00 | Good |
| Alberta | $23.00 | $18.00 – $26.00 | Good |
| British Columbia | $25.00 | $19.00 – $28.00 | 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 47 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 | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $20.93 | $18.24 – $24.01 | Undetermined |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | $20.48 | $18.03 – $21.17 | Undetermined |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $24.52 | $19.92 – $29.01 | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | $22.22 | $19.04 – $27.90 | Limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $25.00 | $23.08 – $25.75 | Limited |
| Estrie | Quebec | $22.40 | $18.89 – $25.16 | Moderate |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $23.80 | $20.03 – $28.28 | Moderate |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $23.00 | $21.00 – $27.00 | Limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $23.16 | $18.31 – $27.23 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | $23.87 | $19.44 – $27.80 | Very limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | $23.82 | $19.42 – $27.68 | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $22.68 | $19.39 – $26.09 | Limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $24.00 | $23.50 – $26.00 | Limited |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $23.09 | $19.60 – $27.03 | Undetermined |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | $22.33 | $19.21 – $24.87 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $24.59 | $20.09 – $33.20 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $21.60 | $17.60 – $25.00 | Good |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $22.50 | $20.00 – $26.80 | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $22.50 | $18.70 – $26.15 | Good |
| London | Ontario | $23.70 | $18.00 – $27.52 | Good |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $23.39 | $20.27 – $27.24 | Good |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $23.62 | $20.10 – $28.16 | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | $22.41 | $19.42 – $24.90 | Undetermined |
| Northwest | Ontario | $23.41 | $19.55 – $25.70 | Undetermined |
| Southeast | Manitoba | $20.28 | $17.50 – $28.00 | Good |
| South Central | Manitoba | $20.00 | $17.00 – $23.00 | Moderate |
| Southwest | Manitoba | $20.00 | $17.00 – $23.55 | Limited |
| North Central | Manitoba | $20.00 | $17.00 – $23.00 | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $20.00 | $16.15 – $22.10 | Good |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $20.41 | $16.19 – $23.88 | Undetermined |
| Swift Current--Moose Jaw | Saskatchewan | $21.56 | $18.00 – $25.14 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $20.00 | $15.35 – $21.00 | Very good |
| Yorkton--Melville | Saskatchewan | $22.65 | $20.12 – $27.18 | Very good |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $22.92 | $19.63 – $28.53 | Undetermined |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | Alberta | $25.00 | $15.00 – $26.55 | Good |
| Camrose--Drumheller | Alberta | $24.34 | $20.31 – $29.40 | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | $25.80 | $20.97 – $32.65 | Good |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $24.58 | $19.37 – $32.29 | Undetermined |
| Red Deer | Alberta | $24.08 | $19.67 – $28.53 | Good |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $23.69 | $19.31 – $26.50 | Good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $23.03 | $19.32 – $27.70 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $25.00 | $19.00 – $28.00 | Moderate |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $24.44 | $19.45 – $32.10 | 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 Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (2024) · 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.