Official Canadian wage profile
NOC 2021 53122 Category 5
Painters, sculptors and other visual artists
A wage record for this five-digit Canadian NOC 2021 unit group, within Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport. 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
- 1,400
- Modeled change across the period
- Total openings
- 10,300
- Includes replacement demand
- Projected job seekers
- 10,200
- Source projection
Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS).
Coverage: Canada, NOC 2021 53122; 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 4 published province-level entries and 0 published local or regional entries in the national median's per hour pay period.
Province-level entries
4 of 9 locations
Reported medians range from CAD 25.71 to CAD 41.26 per hour.
Local / regional entries
0 of 76 locations
Province-level estimates
Every displayed figure retains its NOC 2021 code, place, CAD currency, pay period, source, method and reference period.
| Geography | Low / median / high | Source details |
|---|---|---|
| AlbertaNOC 2021 53122 | CAD 18 low / CAD 29 median / CAD 50 highCAD, per hour | Source: Employment Insurance Survey Data Method: EI 2023-24 PR NOC5 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per hour |
| British ColumbiaNOC 2021 53122 | CAD 24.50 low / CAD 41.26 median / CAD 47.34 highCAD, per hour | Source: Employment Insurance Survey Data Method: EI 2023-24 PR NOC5 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per hour |
| OntarioNOC 2021 53122 | CAD 18.24 low / CAD 25.71 median / CAD 43.15 highCAD, per hour | Source: Employment Insurance Survey Data Method: EI 2023-24 PR NOC5 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per hour |
| QuebecNOC 2021 53122 | CAD 19.40 low / CAD 26 median / CAD 43 highCAD, per hour | Source: Employment Insurance Survey Data Method: EI 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 53122: Painters, sculptors and other visual artists. 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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