NOC 2021 · 95107 · TEER 5
Labourers in fish and seafood processing
Unit group 95107 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Labourers in fish and seafood processing perform clean-up, packaging, material handling and other elemental activities related to fish and seafood processing. They are employed in fish and seafood processing and packaging plants.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- cannery labourer
- cannery labourer - fish processing
- cooler operator - fish processing
- fish bin worker - fish processing
- fish briner - fish processing
- fish culler
- fish curing worker
- fish dipper - fish processing
- fish freezing worker - fish processing
- fish hopper filling worker
- fish icer - fish processing
- fish packer - fish processing
- fish pickler - fish processing
- fish plant labourer
- fish processing labourer
- fish processing plant labourer
- fish salter - fish processing
- fish sorter
- fish weigher
- fish-processing plant handler
- shellfish checker - fish processing
- shellfish labourer
- shellfish packer - fish processing
- shellfish processing labourer
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
$18.00 an hour
Low $16.00, high $21.40
Where it pays most
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$21.25
- Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine · Quebec$19.25
- Southern · Nova Scotia$19.00
- Saint John--St. Stephen · New Brunswick$18.28
- North Shore · Nova Scotia$18.00
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 | $17.65 | $16.00 – $19.74 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | $18.00 | $16.50 – $24.00 | Good |
| Nova Scotia | $18.00 | $16.50 – $22.00 | Good |
| New Brunswick | $17.92 | $15.81 – $21.00 | Good |
| Quebec | $19.49 | $17.10 – $22.00 | Limited |
| Ontario | $18.43 | $17.60 – $25.00 | Good |
| Manitoba | $18.25 | $16.65 – $21.00 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $18.70 | $17.85 – $24.00 | 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 18 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.60 | $16.00 – $20.52 | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.96 | $16.00 – $19.95 | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.50 | $16.50 – $18.35 | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | $17.81 | $16.00 – $19.10 | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | $17.00 | $16.50 – $20.00 | Good |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | $18.00 | $16.50 – $21.00 | Good |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | $19.00 | $16.50 – $22.50 | Good |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $17.91 | $16.59 – $20.00 | Good |
| Moncton--Richibucto | New Brunswick | $17.00 | $15.80 – $21.00 | Good |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | New Brunswick | $18.28 | $16.64 – $22.00 | Good |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Edmundston--Woodstock | New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | $19.25 | $17.00 – $22.00 | Limited |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $21.25 | $18.50 – $27.00 | Limited |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $17.85 | $17.85 – $20.10 | Moderate |
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.