NOC 2021 · minor groupMostly one sector3 industries tagged

Machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades

166,070 people in Canada, 53% of them in Manufacturing. Between 40% and 70% of the people doing this work in one sector. The others exist everywhere else — which usually means most businesses buy this work in rather than employing it.

EmployedA
166,070
Canada, 2021 Census
Sectors employing itA
7
of 20, at 1% or more
Largest sectorA
53%
Manufacturing
Median pay
$70,720
across 7 job titles
01

Where this work is done

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

02

The jobs inside it

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

Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors 72100Tool and die makers 72101Sheet metal workers 72102Boilermakers 72103Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters 72104Ironworkers 72105Welders and related machine operators 72106
03

The industries that employ it

Which NAICS industries these people work in. The sector above is measured; naming the industry group inside it is judgmentUNVERIFIED, made because the measured data shows this job is concentrated.

Machinists and tool-and-die makers in job shops; sheet metal and boilermakers in fabrication.

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.