Secondary school teachers: salary in Ontario
What secondary school teachers are paid in Ontario, from the wage data the Government of Canada publishes on Job Bank.
Median wage in Ontario (an hour)
CA$48.08 an hour
Median wage in Canada (an hour)
CA$45.67 an hour
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Source: Employment and Social Development Canada / Job Bank, Wages (2025 open data)
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What secondary school teachers earn in Ontario
In Ontario the median wage for secondary school teachers is CA$48.08 an hour an hour; the low wage is CA$29.33 an hour and the high wage CA$61.54 an hour.
At 2080 paid hours a year that median works out at roughly CA$100,006 a year.
Source of the estimate: Labour Force Survey, reference period 2023-2024.
| Measure | Ontario | Canada |
|---|---|---|
| Low wage | CA$29.33 an hour | CA$28.85 an hour |
| Median wage | CA$48.08 an hour | CA$45.67 an hour |
| Average wage | CA$46.56 an hour | CA$45.47 an hour |
| High wage | CA$61.54 an hour | CA$59.76 an hour |
Every province and territory
Secondary school teachers: wages by province and territory
| Province or territory | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | CA$39.26 an hour | CA$51.81 an hour | CA$77.50 an hour |
| Nova Scotia | CA$19.79 an hour | CA$41.35 an hour | CA$49.45 an hour |
| New Brunswick | CA$20.00 an hour | CA$41.03 an hour | CA$49.27 an hour |
| Quebec | CA$27.47 an hour | CA$44.23 an hour | CA$56.49 an hour |
| Ontario | CA$29.33 an hour | CA$48.08 an hour | CA$61.54 an hour |
| Manitoba | CA$31.15 an hour | CA$45.67 an hour | CA$57.69 an hour |
| Saskatchewan | CA$30.00 an hour | CA$44.71 an hour | CA$56.07 an hour |
| Alberta | CA$32.97 an hour | CA$47.12 an hour | CA$60.44 an hour |
| British Columbia | CA$28.85 an hour | CA$44.33 an hour | CA$60.18 an hour |
Job Bank publishes a low, median and high wage rather than a full distribution. The low wage is roughly what the lowest paid tenth earn and the high wage roughly what the best paid tenth earn.
How does secondary school teachers: salary in ontario compare with the rest of Canada?
At CA$48.08 an hour, secondary school teachers: salary in ontario is well below the CA$59,900.00 an hour that average salary in canada publishes for Canada as a whole — a difference of 100%. That gap is the first thing worth checking before comparing two job offers.
How tight is the pay range for secondary school teachers: salary in ontario?
A quarter of people in this group are paid below CA$38.46 an hour and a quarter above CA$53.85 an hour; the median sits at CA$48.08 an hour and the mean at CA$46.56 an hour. The two ends are close together, which points to a fairly standard rate for this group rather than a wide negotiating range.
What does "wage data revised 2025-11-19" mean for secondary school teachers: salary in ontario?
The figures for secondary school teachers: salary in ontario come from Employment and Social Development Canada / Job Bank, Wages (2025 open data), with a reference period of wage data revised 2025-11-19. Pay statistics like this one are not updated in real time: the underlying survey or register takes months to collect and process, so the number reflects pay around that date, not today. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
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Median vs. mean
The median is the middle value when every salary is lined up from lowest to highest: half earn less, half earn more. The mean is the simple average. A handful of very high salaries pulls the mean up without moving the median, so the median is usually the better guide to what a typical person earns.
Percentile
A percentile splits the distribution into 100 equal parts. The 10th percentile is the value only a tenth of people earn below; the 90th percentile is what only a tenth earn above. Looking at several percentiles shows the full spread, not just one average.
Fonte: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) — Office for National Statistics.
Full-time equivalent
A way of converting part-time hours into the pay a full-time version of the same job would earn, so that a two-day-a-week role can be compared fairly with a five-day one. Figures that mix full-time and part-time workers without adjusting for this tend to understate typical full-time pay.
Reference period
The point in time, or the stretch of time, that a published figure actually describes. Pay surveys take months to collect and process, so the reference period is usually well before the date the figures are released, and always before the date you are reading them.
Occupational classification
A standard code that groups similar jobs so that pay statistics can be compared across employers and over time — the UK uses SOC, Canada uses NOC, the United States uses SOC as well, and the European Union uses ISCO. The same job title can sit in different codes depending on the classification used.
Fonte: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Source: Employment and Social Development Canada / Job Bank, Wages (2025 open data)
Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada
Reference period: wage data revised 2025-11-19
Data collected on: 7 October 2026
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Figures are statistical averages for a whole group of employees. Your own pay depends on your employer, your experience, your hours and where you work.