NOC 2021 · minor groupMost sectors

Physical science professionals

30,280 people in Canada, 31.6% of them in Professional, scientific and technical services. Spread across the economy but leaning somewhere. Common enough that an industry which does NOT employ it is the notable case.

EmployedA
30,280
Canada, 2021 Census
Sectors employing itA
9
of 20, at 1% or more
Largest sectorA
31.6%
Professional, scientific and technical services
Median pay
$104,000
across 5 job titles
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Where this work is done

The measured share of everyone in this occupation, by sector. It leans to one sector without belonging to it.

Professional, scientific and technical services 31.6%
Manufacturing 22.7%
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 14.9%
Public administration 11.5%
Health care and social assistance 5.2%
Wholesale trade 4.2%
Educational services 3.3%
Utilities 1.4%
Retail trade 1.3%
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The jobs inside it

Statistics Canada counts these together as one minor group. These are the job titles underneath.

Physicists and astronomers 21100Chemists 21101Geoscientists and oceanographers 21102Meteorologists and climatologists 21103Other professional occupations in physical sciences 21109

Sources for this page

The sector split is a count; the industry tag is a reading of it. Statistics Canada publishes this cross-tabulation against the twenty NAICS sectors and no finer, so everything above the industry table is measured and the table itself is judgment — offered because "which industry employs a veterinarian" has a useful answer that the published data stops just short of.