Supervisors, mineral and metal processing salary in Canada
$71,136CAD/YR
Supervisors, mineral and metal processing in Canada earns a median of $71,136 a year, about $36.00 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $71,136 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $50,433. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $56,436 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 71,136 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 71,136 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| North Coast | $102,693 | +44% |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | $93,959 | +32% |
| Mauricie | $92,358 | +30% |
| Thompson--Okanagan | $90,936 | +28% |
| Kootenay | $89,533 | +26% |
| British Columbia | $85,956 | +21% |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | $84,928 | +19% |
| Saskatchewan | $83,565 | +17% |
| Capitale-Nationale | $83,012 | +17% |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | $82,340 | +16% |
| Northeast | $82,044 | +15% |
| Alberta | $81,806 | +15% |
| Edmonton | $81,806 | +15% |
| Montérégie | $81,332 | +14% |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | $81,075 | +14% |
| Laurentides | $80,463 | +13% |
| Quebec | $79,376 | +12% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $78,348 | +10% |
| Lanaudière | $77,756 | +9% |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | $77,479 | +9% |
| Estrie | $77,360 | +9% |
| Lower Mainland | $77,262 | +9% |
| Montréal | $76,847 | +8% |
| New Brunswick | $75,167 | +6% |
| Laval | $75,048 | +5% |
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 | $71,136 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $77,044 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $59,774 | — |
| 75th percentile | $87,873 | — |
| Hourly | $36.00 | 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 does supervisors, mineral and metal processing earn in Canada?
- The median is $71,136 a year, about $36.00 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. $71,136 converts to $50,433 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $56,436 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".
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