Career development practitioners and career counsellors (except education) salary in Canada
$59,181CAD/YR
Career development practitioners and career counsellors (except education) in Canada earns a median of $59,181 a year, about $29.95 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $59,181 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $41,958. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $46,951 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 59,181 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 59,181 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| New Brunswick | $69,654 | +18% |
| Northeast | $69,160 | +17% |
| Ottawa | $69,120 | +17% |
| Moncton--Richibucto | $69,081 | +17% |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | $69,041 | +17% |
| Campbellton--Miramichi | $68,073 | +15% |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | $66,907 | +13% |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | $65,939 | +11% |
| Fredericton--Oromocto | $65,346 | +10% |
| London | $65,228 | +10% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $65,208 | +10% |
| Quebec | $60,327 | +2% |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | $60,327 | +2% |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | $60,327 | +2% |
| Capitale-Nationale | $60,327 | +2% |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | $60,327 | +2% |
| Estrie | $60,327 | +2% |
| Montérégie | $60,327 | +2% |
| Montréal | $60,327 | +2% |
| Laval | $60,327 | +2% |
| Lanaudière | $60,327 | +2% |
| Laurentides | $60,327 | +2% |
| Outaouais | $60,327 | +2% |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | $60,327 | +2% |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | $60,327 | +2% |
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 | $59,181 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $62,698 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $52,245 | — |
| 75th percentile | $67,125 | — |
| Hourly | $29.95 | 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 career development practitioners and career counsellors (except education) earn in Canada?
- The median is $59,181 a year, about $29.95 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. $59,181 converts to $41,958 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $46,951 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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