Lowest available median
Yukon Territory
CAD 403,299 per year
Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation
Method: CIHI 2023-24
Reference period: 2023-2024
Currency and period: CAD, per year
Official Canadian wage profile
NOC 2021 31101 Category 3
Specialists in surgery
A wage record for this five-digit Canadian NOC 2021 unit group, within Health 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: Strong risk of Shortage
- Employment change
- 2,600
- Modeled change across the period
- Total openings
- 5,400
- Includes replacement demand
- Projected job seekers
- 4,900
- Source projection
Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS).
Coverage: Canada, NOC 2021 31101; 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 8 published province-level entries and 2 published local or regional entries in the national median's per year pay period.
Province-level entries
8 of 9 locations
Reported medians range from CAD 397,319 to CAD 508,561 per year.
Local / regional entries
2 of 76 locations
Reported medians range from CAD 403,299 to CAD 530,709 per year.
Three points in the local wage map
Lowest, middle-ranked and highest available local/regional medians in this file, not a separate survey.
Middle available median
Yukon Territory
CAD 403,299 per year
Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation
Method: CIHI 2023-24
Reference period: 2023-2024
Currency and period: CAD, per year
Highest available median
Prince Edward Island
CAD 530,709 per year
Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation
Method: CIHI 2023-24
Reference period: 2023-2024
Currency and period: CAD, per year
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 31101 | CAD 180,159 low / CAD 508,561 median / CAD 984,111 highCAD, per year | Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation Method: CIHI 2023-24 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per year |
| British ColumbiaNOC 2021 31101 | CAD 146,214 low / CAD 441,788 median / CAD 819,593 highCAD, per year | Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation Method: CIHI 2023-24 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per year |
| ManitobaNOC 2021 31101 | CAD 161,289 low / CAD 457,991 median / CAD 826,328 highCAD, per year | Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation Method: CIHI 2023-24 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per year |
| New BrunswickNOC 2021 31101 | CAD 175,076 low / CAD 421,734 median / CAD 634,999 highCAD, per year | Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation Method: CIHI 2023-24 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per year |
| Newfoundland and LabradorNOC 2021 31101 | CAD 143,704 low / CAD 434,053 median / CAD 699,989 highCAD, per year | Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation Method: CIHI 2023-24 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per year |
| Nova ScotiaNOC 2021 31101 | CAD 175,086 low / CAD 418,516 median / CAD 597,217 highCAD, per year | Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation Method: CIHI 2023-24 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per year |
| OntarioNOC 2021 31101 | CAD 118,538 low / CAD 403,957 median / CAD 749,689 highCAD, per year | Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation Method: CIHI 2023-24 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per year |
| QuebecNOC 2021 31101 | CAD 165,663 low / CAD 397,319 median / CAD 642,495 highCAD, per year | Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information and Canadian Medical Association - custom tabulation Method: CIHI 2023-24 Reference period: 2023-2024 Currency and period: CAD, per year |
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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 31101: Specialists in surgery. 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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