Official Canadian wage profile

NOC 2021 21221 Category 2

Business systems specialists

A wage record for this five-digit Canadian NOC 2021 unit group, within Natural and applied sciences and related occupations. Use the occupation code and location together when interpreting the published figures.

From the Government of Canada Job Bank 2025 wage file, updated 2025-11-19 and checked 2026-10-13. The source reference period for this Canada estimate is 2023-2024.

ESDC national outlook

Canadian outlook, 2024-2033

This is a Canada-wide model, not a province-specific or individual career forecast. Its assessment combines recent labour-market conditions for 2021-2023 with projected openings and job seekers. Total openings include replacement demand and are not the same as employment growth.

Source assessment: Balance

Employment change
8,800
Modeled change across the period
Total openings
19,300
Includes replacement demand
Projected job seekers
20,800
Source projection

Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS).

Coverage: Canada, NOC 2021 21221; projection period 2024-2033.

Source dates: published 2025-02-12; source last modified 2025-06-25; files checked 2026-10-13.

Method and limits: National labour demand and supply projections. The result is not a local outlook, licensing guide, job offer, or forecast for a particular person.

Geography in the source file

Where the wage record has coverage

This occupation has 9 published province-level entries and 38 published local or regional entries in the national median's per hour pay period.

Province-level entries

9 of 9 locations

Reported medians range from CAD 38.50 to CAD 48.08 per hour.

Local / regional entries

38 of 76 locations

Reported medians range from CAD 35.90 to CAD 50.15 per hour.

Three points in the local wage map

Lowest, middle-ranked and highest available local/regional medians in this file, not a separate survey.

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Lowest available median

Moncton--Richibucto

CAD 35.90 per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 ER NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

Middle available median

Estrie

CAD 45.22 per hour

Source: Small Area Estimation

Method: SAE 2024 ER NOC5

Reference period: 2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

Highest available median

Laval

CAD 50.15 per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 ER NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

Province-level estimates

Every displayed figure retains its NOC 2021 code, place, CAD currency, pay period, source, method and reference period.

9 sourced rows
Province-level wage estimates for NOC 2021 21221, Business systems specialists
GeographyLow / median / highSource details
AlbertaNOC 2021 21221CAD 33.33 low / CAD 48.08 median / CAD 72.12 highCAD, per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

British ColumbiaNOC 2021 21221CAD 27.40 low / CAD 42.40 median / CAD 60.44 highCAD, per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

ManitobaNOC 2021 21221CAD 27.98 low / CAD 43.50 median / CAD 57.69 highCAD, per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

New BrunswickNOC 2021 21221CAD 25.38 low / CAD 38.50 median / CAD 53.33 highCAD, per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

Newfoundland and LabradorNOC 2021 21221CAD 33.96 low / CAD 46.33 median / CAD 60.66 highCAD, per hour

Source: Small Area Estimation

Method: SAE 2024 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

Nova ScotiaNOC 2021 21221CAD 27 low / CAD 46.15 median / CAD 66.67 highCAD, per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

OntarioNOC 2021 21221CAD 33.33 low / CAD 45.13 median / CAD 62.50 highCAD, per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

QuebecNOC 2021 21221CAD 30.05 low / CAD 46.15 median / CAD 67.39 highCAD, per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

SaskatchewanNOC 2021 21221CAD 29.02 low / CAD 47.85 median / CAD 56 highCAD, per hour

Source: Labour Force Survey

Method: LFS 2023-24 PR NOC5

Reference period: 2023-2024

Currency and period: CAD, per hour

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Source and limitations

These are estimates reported in the official file, not advertised job-offer ranges. Missing place and occupation estimates stay missing.

The occupation mapping is NOC 2021 21221: Business systems specialists. NOC unit groups provide a Canadian classification; similarly worded job titles do not automatically map to the same group. Check the official classification for its boundaries.

The file was updated 2025-11-19 and checked 2026-10-13. Each estimate above keeps its own source series, method and reference period. The wage file does not publish an occupation-level respondent count here.

Source methods and reference periods can differ between places. Low and high values are shown only as published; no hourly-to-annual conversion, experience adjustment, interpolation or currency conversion is applied. Some location combinations have no published median or complete source attribution and are not displayed.

Official wages are separate from self-reported survey responses. Survey results remain hidden until a group has at least five matching responses and are not added to this official wage estimate.

This profile uses the official national Job Bank median for this NOC group. It is not an advertised job-offer range. The COPS section above shows whether a national projection was published for this group. The anonymous salary survey is a separate source and is not added to these official wage estimates; survey cohorts below five matching responses remain suppressed.

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