NOC 2021 · minor groupMostly one sector3 industries tagged

Operators, drillers and blasters

97,790 people in Canada, 47.3% of them in Construction. 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
97,790
Canada, 2021 Census
Sectors employing itA
8
of 20, at 1% or more
Largest sectorA
47.3%
Construction
Median pay
$67,600
across 3 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.

Construction 47.3%
Manufacturing 16.5%
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 16.1%
Public administration 5.4%
Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services 3.8%
Transportation and warehousing 2.9%
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting 1.9%
Wholesale trade 1.8%
02

The jobs inside it

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

Heavy equipment operators 73400Printing press operators 73401Drillers and blasters - surface mining, quarrying and construction 73402
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.

IndustryCodeEstablishments · CA
Other heavy and civil engineering construction23791,430
Other specialty trade contractors238919,537
Non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying21231,028

Market records in those industries

Marine Construction & Dredging Contractor (2379)Structure decidesExcavation & Site Preparation (238910)Structure decidesAggregate Pit & Quarry (2123)Structure decides

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.