NOC 2021 · 94153 · TEER 4
Photographic and film processors
Unit group 94153 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Photographic and film processors process and finish still photographic film and motion picture film. They are employed in film processing laboratories and retail photofinishing establishments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- chemical mixer - photographic processing
- colour film analyzer - photographic processing
- copy camera operator - photographic processing
- darkroom technician
- darkroom technician - photographic processing
- developer-printer machine tender
- developing machine operator - photographic processing
- enlarger operator - photographic processing
- film developer
- film printing machine operator
- film processing technician
- film processor
- film splicer - photographic processing
- film-developing machine tender
- film-printing machine tender
- film-processing machine operator
- motion picture film developer
- motion picture film examiner - photographic processing
- motion picture film printer
- negative cutter - film processing
- negative restorer - photographic processing
- negative retoucher
- negative spotter - film processing
- negative-contact-frame operator
- photo developer
- photo developer-printer
- photo developing inspector
- photo lab technician
- photo processor
- photo technician
- photofinisher
- photograph developer
- photograph developing inspector
- photograph enlarger
- photograph inspector - photographic processing
- photograph mounter
- photographic and film-processing machine operator
- photographic enlarger operator
- photographic film printer
- photographic film processor
- photographic printer
- photographic processor
- photographic-film-processing machine operator
- photographic-processing machine operator
- picture enlarger - photographic processing
- print developer
- print finisher - photographic processing
- print inspector - photographic processing
- print retoucher - photographic processing
- print tender - photographic processing
- quick print machine tender - photographic processing
- slide maker - photographic processing
- X-ray film developer
- X-ray plate developer
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
$20.00 an hour
Low $16.20, high $30.78
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 | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 1 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Very 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.