Library assistants and clerks salary in Canada
$45,784CAD/YR
Library assistants and clerks in Canada earn a median of $45,784 a year, about $23.17 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $45,784 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $32,459. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $36,323 buys in the United States. Those are two answers to two different questions, and the distance between them is the thing worth reading — here it is a factor of 1.12.
At the exchange rate At local prices The disagreement
The hollow marker is the exchange-rate reading: what the money is worth if it leaves. The solid marker is the purchasing-power reading: what it is worth if it stays. The hatched span between them is the disagreement, and it is what every single-country salary site leaves out.
SOURCE·European Central Bank reference rates (via Frankfurter) and World Bank PPP conversion factor PA.NUS.PRVT.PP·FX 2026-07-29·REVIEWED PPP 2025
How Canada arrived at this figure, and what it is not
- Employment and Social Development Canada publishes Job Bank wage data for the reference period 2025. We take the occupation row as released and change nothing in it.
- 2021 Census wage distributions by NOC and economic region
- Where the agency publishes a distribution we carry the whole distribution, because a single average throws away the part of the answer people are actually asking about.
- The wage is then read twice: converted at the European Central Bank reference rate for 2026-07-29, and divided by the World Bank purchasing-power conversion factor for CAN. Both readings are printed; neither is presented as the answer.
- Countries measure pay differently. A tax return, an employer payroll survey, a PAYE sample and a household survey are four different instruments, and gaps of a few per cent between countries are the instruments, not the wages.
converted = CAD 45,784 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 45,784 / PPP(CAN) disagreement = adjusted / converted
Where it pays more in Canada
Median pay for this occupation by area, highest-employing first.
| Area | Median | vs national |
|---|---|---|
| Yukon Territory | $60,090 | +31% |
| British Columbia | $55,032 | +20% |
| Lower Mainland | $55,032 | +20% |
| Outaouais | $54,953 | +20% |
| Laval | $54,162 | +18% |
| Lanaudière | $53,431 | +17% |
| Calgary | $52,917 | +16% |
| Laurentides | $52,660 | +15% |
| Kootenay | $52,344 | +14% |
| Centre-du-Québec | $51,692 | +13% |
| Cariboo | $51,495 | +12% |
| Montérégie | $51,376 | +12% |
| Montréal | $51,277 | +12% |
| Thompson--Okanagan | $51,001 | +11% |
| Mauricie | $50,665 | +11% |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | $50,487 | +10% |
| North Coast | $50,111 | +9% |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | $49,538 | +8% |
| Toronto | $49,400 | +8% |
| Capitale-Nationale | $48,965 | +7% |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | $48,096 | +5% |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | $48,076 | +5% |
| Camrose--Drumheller | $47,622 | +4% |
| Quebec | $47,424 | +4% |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | $47,424 | +4% |
Regional figures come from the same release as the national one. Where an area is missing, the source suppressed it for sample-size reasons rather than reporting an unreliable estimate.
Every figure this page rests on
| Reading | CAD | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Median | $45,784 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $47,226 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $36,813 | — |
| 75th percentile | $55,328 | — |
| Hourly | $23.17 | Median at 38 hrs/week |
Employment and Social Development Canada · 2025
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What people ask next
- How much do library assistants and clerks earn in Canada?
- The median is $45,784 a year, about $23.17 an hour, according to Employment and Social Development Canada, Job Bank wage data 2025.
- Is that figure before or after tax?
- Before. Every figure on this page is gross pay as the statistics agency published it — income tax, social contributions and any deductions come off afterwards, and they differ enough between countries that we do not model them.
- Why is the US-dollar figure different depending on where I read it?
- Because there are two of them. $45,784 converts to $32,459 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $36,323 buys in the United States once Canada's price level is accounted for. The first answers "what could I wire abroad", the second answers "how well does someone live on this".
Related occupations in Canada
- Accounting and related clerks $49,400
- Banking, insurance and other financial clerks $50,052
- Collection clerks $55,723
- Correspondence, publication and regulatory clerks $56,454
- Court clerks and related court services occupations $58,905
- Data entry clerks $46,436
- Desktop publishing operators and related occupations $46,970
- Dispatchers $55,328
- General office support workers $47,404
- Personnel clerks $55,091
- Production logistics workers $60,802
- Purchasing and inventory control workers $47,424
