Childcare worker salary in Canada
The median pay for this job in Canada is $46,384 a year. Half of workers earn between $39,520 and $55,994.
ESDC Job Bank, 2023-2024: NOC 42202 Early childhood educators and assistants, from the Labour Force Survey.
Pay today
| Where in the range | Pay a year |
|---|---|
| Low | $35,256 |
| 25th percentile | $39,520 |
| Median | $46,384 |
| 75th percentile | $55,994 |
| High | $62,462 |
Job Bank publishes hourly wages. They are shown here for a full-time year of 2,080 hours, before tax.
Pay at 30, 40 and 50
This is the app's forecast for one example: someone aged 25 with a high school education or less and 7 years of work experience, anywhere in Canada. That is the most common education for the job among US workers (BLS). A different age, education, experience or province or territory changes the numbers.
| Age | Median, with likely range |
|---|---|
| 30 | $40,000 $35,000 to $48,000 |
| 40 | $48,000 $41,000 to $58,000 |
| 50 | $50,000 $43,000 to $61,000 |
On this path pay is highest around age 49, with a median of $50,000.
The range is the 25th to 75th percentile, rounded to the nearest thousand, in today's money. It follows the age curve for people with this education (Statistics Canada census). How it is worked out is on the home page.
Your own numbers. Salary Predictor for iPhone works this out for your age, job, education, experience and province or territory, shows the age your pay tends to peak and where you stand against people your age.
Get Salary Predictor on the App StoreMedian pay by province
| Province | Median a year |
|---|---|
| Yukon | $62,000 |
| Northwest Territories | $55,000 |
| Nunavut | $52,000 |
| Quebec | $50,000 |
| British Columbia | $50,000 |
| New Brunswick | $49,000 |
| Ontario | $46,000 |
| Prince Edward Island | $45,000 |
| Nova Scotia | $45,000 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $42,000 |
| Alberta | $40,000 |
| Saskatchewan | $39,000 |
| Manitoba | $37,000 |
ESDC Job Bank provincial wages, 2023-2024, annualised at 2,080 hours. Provinces without a published figure are left out. Rounded to the nearest thousand.
Other service and sales workers in Canada
The same job elsewhere: United States, United Kingdom.
Sources
- Wages (Job Bank open data), 2025 release. Employment and Social Development Canada, 2023-2024.
- Employee wages by industry, annual (Table 14-10-0064-01). Statistics Canada, 2025.
- Employment income statistics by highest level of education (Table 98-10-0409-01). Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, 2020 income.
- Consumer Price Index, annual average (Table 18-10-0005-01). Statistics Canada, 2020-2024.
- Schooling, Experience, and Earnings. Jacob Mincer, National Bureau of Economic Research / Columbia University Press, 1974.
- Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond. Heckman, Lochner & Todd, Handbook of the Economics of Education, vol. 1, 2006.
- The 'Mincer Equation' Thirty Years After Schooling, Experience, and Earnings. Thomas Lemieux, in Jacob Mincer: A Pioneer of Modern Labor Economics (Springer), 2006.
- The Lognormal Distribution, with Special Reference to its Uses in Economics. J. Aitchison & J. A. C. Brown, Cambridge University Press, 1957.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Tables 14-10-0064-01 (2025), 98-10-0409-01 (2021 Census of Population, 2020 income) and 18-10-0005-01 (2020-2024). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.