The highest paying jobs in Canada by educational level are included in the Career Planning category of the Government of Canada’s Job Bank.
The Job Bank includes a number of the highest-paying positions that people with all three of these accomplishments can find. These positions are listed for diploma holders, graduates with a bachelor’s degree, and students pursuing a master’s degree. The top three for each category are listed below, along with the Canadian government’s estimated median salary levels.
Diploma-holding graduates
Those with a specialized area of interest are often given access to diploma-based programs and courses. Diploma-based programs are frequently shorter than Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in length, and typically call for applicants to have finished high school.
- Installers and operators of stationary energy sources get an average salary of $128,310.
- Maintenance technologies for large/industrial equipment: average salary of $74,248
- Diagnostic, intervention, and treatment careers in allied health: median pay is $69,163
Bachelor’s degree recipients
Depending on the program’s prerequisites, bachelor’s degree programs often take three or four years to finish. At more than 100 universities spread out across the nation, Canada offers more than 10,000 different Bachelor’s degree programs.
For those with a bachelor’s degree, the top three highest-paying positions in Canada are:
- Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences: $109,645 in median annual income
- Studying chemical engineering and related fields, the typical salary is $91,278.
- Earnings average of $80,003 in other engineering-related fields.
Master’s degree recipients
Master’s degree programs normally last one or two years and have a Bachelor’s degree program completion requirement. These programs are frequently accessible in practically any subject of study that a particular student is interested in, and to complete them, the student usually must complete a thesis, practicum, or research paper.
The top three highest-paying positions in Canada for those with master’s degrees are:
- Services in finance and financial management pay the average of $106,578 a year.
- The typical salary for the pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences is $103,059
- Accounting: $102,610 median annual income
