What are B.C.’s highest paid jobs?
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Statistics Canada released the final round of data from the National Household Survey today, covering data on income and housing. One of the interesting nuggets from the data: median income by occupation in B.C. Below is a list of the highest paid occupations in B.C. and — if you click on the tab at the top — you can see B.C.’s worst paid occupations, too. And if you’re curious how your occupation compares, just type it into the search box. StatsCan sometimes has weird ways of listing occupations, so if you don’t find it at first, try different variations (i.e. “physician” instead of “doctor”):
The highest paid job in the province, by a wide margin, is Judge, which isn’t particularly surprising. But also up there are financial managers, mining engineers, fire chiefs, specialist physicians and pilots. School principals also make the top 10, though just barely. The reference line on the chart is the median pay of all occupations in B.C., which is about $34,000 a year.
On the flip side, looking at the lowest paid occupations in the province, the data seems to suggest that there are indeed a lot of “starving artists” in B.C. Musicians and singers are the lowest paid occupation in the province, with a median salary of just $13,000. Actors and comedians are a close second with median pay of just $15,000. Restaurant hosts, nannies (listed above as “home child care providers”), food and beverage servers and harvesting labourers were also near the bottom. Perhaps the most surprising occupation near the bottom, at least for me, was practitioners of natural healing, the fifth-worst-paid occupation in the province.
A quick note about this income data. StatsCan provides a bunch of different data points for income. The one used in these charts is median wages and salaries for “full-time, full-year” employees. This seems like the most useful figure to use as it won’t skew professions that have low pay simply because a lot of people doing the job only work part-time.
I also created a map showing the richest and poorest neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver and a chart showing the richest and poorest municipalities in Metro and across the province. Both are below.
| Click on the link and there's an interactive chart where you'll be able to do a search on specific occupations. I'm personally surprised by the median income of physicians, they're lower than I expected.
Some as reference:
Judge - $232,381
Mining Engineers - $120,122
Specialist Physician - $109,593
School principals and administrators of elementary - $101,265
Lawyers and Quebec notaries - $99,870
Pharmacists - $95,271
University professors and lecturers - $90,780
Dentists - $84,227
Software Engineers and designers - $81,603
General Practitioner and family physicians - $81,042
Secondary school teacher - $73,199
Financial auditors and accountants - $61,544
Payroll clerks - $49,382
Restaurant and food service managers - $38,424
Bartenders - $21,731
Musicians and singers - $13,031 | 