Environmental Worker Compensation Guide
Are you effectively addressing competitive compensation for your environmental workers? In today’s green economy, leveraging a strong compensation and benefits strategy is essential for attracting and retaining top talent.
Successful organizations recognize that a compelling compensation package not only differentiates them from competitors but also serves as a critical motivator for employees. Salary and benefits play a significant role in employee satisfaction and retention, influencing decisions to stay or explore new opportunities within the company.
ECO Canada provides essential, data-driven compensation statistics to help you establish competitive, fair, and equitable pay structures.
Download our 2025 Environmental Worker Compensation Guide to access comprehensive salary benchmarking and employee benefits data. Equip your organization with the insights needed to thrive in the evolving green economy!
Licensing Agreement
ECO CANADA hereby grants your organization (the “LICENSEE”) a non-exclusive usage of the electronic report entitled Environmental Worker Compensation Guide (the “REPORT”), upon the agreement of the terms stated below by ECO Canada.
Price: $495 $199 CAD + Applicable Taxes
What is in ECO Canada’s 2025 Environmental Worker Compensation Guide?
- Salary benchmarking data to ensure your organization maintains a competitive advantage
- Salary data by occupation, industry, specialization, experience level, organization size and type, and region
Employee benefits data by organization size and type, and industry
Why invest in this Compensation Guide?
- Attracting and retaining skilled environmental workers is key to the success of your organization. Implementing a robust compensation strategy strengthens your current operations and supports the recruitment and retention of qualified workers.
- ECO Canada’s comprehensive 2025 Environmental Worker Compensation Guide is an asset that can help you increase your organization’s competitive edge, build your employee engagement strategy, secure top talent, and ensure fair workplace practices.
Download the free 2025 Environmental Worker Salary Insights for a preview of what the full compensation guide includes.
In spring 2023, ECO Canada gathered compensation data for environmental workers* through various sources. Information was collected for full-time, part-time, contract, intern, student and seasonal positions.
*Workers are classified as environmental if they:
- contributed to the protection, preservation, or sustainability of the environment,
- were required to have environmental knowledge, skills, or training, or
- were employed by environmental goods and services organizations.
Data sources include national employer and worker surveys, Environmental Professionals (EP) and Environmental Professionals in Training (EPt) surveys, and salary data for interns receiving wage funding through ECO Canada. In total, 2,421 salary incidents were collected. Incidents may not be representative due to a non-randomized sample of respondents.
Environmental workers surveyed supplied salary and benefits data based on their current roles. Employers surveyed provided data on salaries and benefits for up to two (2) occupations and three (3) levels of experience or tenure where applicable – for a maximum of six incidents for which they employ environmental workers. Employer participants reported a total of 43,759 environmental employees within their organizations.
Annual salaries have been standardized, presented as full-time equivalent (FTE), and rounded to the nearest ten. Given the cross-sectoral nature of the environmental workforce, salary information is provided by:
- Occupation Group
- Industry
- Specialization
- Region
- Organization Type and Size
- Experience Level
Benefits (non-wage compensation) are reported by industry and organization type and size.
Participation in the surveys was voluntary and depended upon people being aware of the surveys and dedicating time to complete them, resulting in non-randomized samples.
Where possible, sample sizes are provided. Note, however, that responses by occupations, industries and specializations are not evenly distributed. To support benchmarking practices, median salaries are reported rather than average salaries. When the sample size is too small to report, values are removed from the salary tables.
- Technical specialists
- Scientists
- Engineers
- Technologists and technicians
- Architects and planners
- Operators and labourers
- Business, finance and administration workers
- Business, finance and administration officers
- Managers and supervisors
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Saskatchewan
- Manitoba
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Atlantic Canada
- Canadian Territories
- Environmental consulting services
- Professional, scientific and technical services (excluding Environmental consulting services)
- Natural resources (includes Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting and Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction)
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Public administration
- Manufacturing
- Other services (except Public administration)
- Utilities
- Educational services
- Construction
- Wholesale trade & Retail trade
- Health care and social assistance
- Transportation and warehousing
- Finance and insurance & Real estate and rental and leasing
- Air quality protection
- Water quality protection
- Site assessment, remediation, and reclamation
- Waste management
- Environmental health and safety
- Energy
- Natural resources management
- Fisheries and wildlife management
- Policy and legislation
- Sustainability
- Research and development
- Education and training
- Communications and public awareness
- Impact Assessment
- Environmental management
ECO Canada will review individual requests on a case-by-case basis. We will determine whether sufficient data are available based on the criteria outlined in the request.
ECO Canada can provide customized data for specific job titles, occupations, and sub-sectors. Requests for these data will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine whether sufficient incidents have been reported for these specific workforce segments.
Data were collected in the spring of 2023.
Yes, the participants are Canadian employers and environmental workers.
ECO Canada offers certification and training programs. In addition, we host career development opportunities including virtual events and workshops. Research is ongoing at ECO Canada. Our labour market research reports are routinely published to provide timely, relevant, and credible information and insights on Canada’s environmental workforce.
Contact research@eco.ca for direct inquiries about labour market information and occupational standards.
Submit your research ideas and customized research requests to our Research team research@eco.ca
ECO Canada is exploring alternative salary guide methodologies, with a plan to publish salary data for select environmental job titles in spring 2025.
No, refunds will not be issued. You can download and review our sample guide before you decide to purchase.
At ECO Canada, we welcome and encourage feedback and suggestions. This helps us learn and evolve to meet the needs of our community of professional members, partners and sponsors, and students, strengthening future research and support of environmental employment in Canada.
Connect with us, send your feedback and suggestions to research@eco.ca