Automotive service technicians
Auto body collision, refinishing and glass technicians and damage repair estimatorsNOC 72411, TEER 2
NOC 72411 (Auto body collision, refinishing and glass technicians and damage repair estimators) is TEER 2.TEER 2
Occupations that usually require a college diploma, apprenticeship training of 2 or more years, or supervisory occupations
- Express Entry
- IRCC counts TEER 0 to 3 work for the Federal Skilled Worker Program and the Canadian Experience Class, so work in NOC 72411 sits inside that range.
- Skilled trades
- NOC 72411 is in Major Group 72, one of the groups IRPR s. 87.2 lists for the Federal Skilled Trades Program. The program sets other conditions, and an officer decides.
- 2026 categories
- IRCC's 2026 category lists do not include NOC 72411.
- Median wage
- $27.00 an hour across Canada, from Job Bank's 2025 wage release (2023-2024 data).
- Provincial programs
- Each province sets which occupations its streams take. From our registry: OINP Ontario Workforce Priority stream, status Open, verified November 12, 2026.
How to read this code
- Broad category
- The first digit is the broad occupational category, the widest grouping in the NOC.
- TEER
- The second digit, 2, is the TEER category: TEER 2.
- Group
- The first four digits, 7241, are the minor group: Automotive service technicians.
- Occupation
- All five digits, 72411, are the unit group, the occupation itself: Auto body collision, refinishing and glass technicians and damage repair estimators.
Also called: auto body and collision technician, auto body repairer, automobile damage repair estimator, automotive body mechanic, automotive glass technician
This page shows the official duties for NOC 72411, where its TEER sits in immigration rules, and the wages Job Bank reports. It describes the rules. It does not decide anyone's case.
What the job involves
Statistics Canada text, quoted word for word. IRCC compares your duties with this description, not your job title.
Lead statement
Auto body collision, refinishing and glass technicians repair and restore damaged motor vehicle body parts and interior finishing; repaint body surfaces; repair and/or replace automotive glass and repair defective automobile body parts and damage to the bodies of newly assembled cars. Damage repair estimators assess the degree of damage to a vehicle and estimate the cost of parts and labour. They are employed by automobile dealerships, automobile body repair shops, automobile appraisal centres and by motor vehicle manufacturers. This unit group also includes metal repairers. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
- auto body and collision technician
- auto body repairer
- automobile damage repair estimator
- automotive body mechanic
- automotive glass technician
- automotive painter - motor vehicle repair
- automotive painter apprentice
- metal finisher - motor vehicle manufacturing
- metal repairer - motor vehicle manufacturing
- motor vehicle body technician - truck
- painter - motor vehicle repair
Main duties: check yours
IRCC's rule for the Federal Skilled Worker Program: you must have performed "the actions in the lead statement" and "most of the main duties listed". Tick the duties you do. The count helps you compare. It is not a decision.
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Lead statement: not ticked. Main duties ticked: 0 of 22.
The rule asks for the lead statement and most of the main duties. IRCC gives no number for "most", and an officer decides.
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If your duties look different
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Classified elsewhere
- 72410Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers (See 72410 Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers)
- 94213Car painter - manufacturing (See 94213 Industrial painters, coaters and metal finishing process operators)
- 72020Motor vehicle body repairers foreman/woman (See 72020 Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades)
- 92020Supervisors, motor vehicle assembling (See 92020 Supervisors, motor vehicle assembling)
Usual employment requirements
- Auto body and collision technicians
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a three- to four-year auto body and collision damage technician apprenticeship program or a combination of over three years of work experience in the auto body and collision technician trade and completion of a professional or college automotive body repair program is usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
- Trade certification for auto body and collision technician is compulsory in Nova Scotia, Ontario and Alberta and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
- Auto body repairer certification is compulsory in Ontario and Alberta and available, but voluntary, in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
- Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified auto body and collision technician upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.
- Automotive refinishing technicians
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a two- to three-year automotive painter apprenticeship program or a combination of one year of work experience in the automotive refinishing technicians trade and completion of a high school or college automotive painting program is usually required for automotive refinishing technicians trade certification.
- Automotive refinishing technicians certification is compulsory in Alberta and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
- Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified automotive refinishing technicians upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.
- Automotive glass technicians
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Auto glass industry certification is usually required.
- Apprenticeship training and trade certification for automotive glass technicians is available, but voluntary, in Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia.
- Automobile damage repair estimator
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- A combination of two- to three-year of relevant automotive experience and education is usually required.
- Metal repairers, motor vehicle manufacturing
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- One to two years of on-the-job training are provided.
Where TEER 2 sits in immigration rules
Each row gives the rule, then what it means for this occupation. The programs set many other conditions too, so read the official page before you act.
Federal Skilled Worker Program and Canadian Experience Class
The rule: both programs count work experience only in TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3.
What this means: NOC 72411 is TEER 2, so work in it is inside that range. The TEER is one condition, not the whole test. Both programs also set how much work you need (at least 1 year, or 1,560 hours), when you did it, and minimum language results.
Federal Skilled Trades Program
The rule: this program goes by NOC group, not by TEER alone. IRPR s. 87.2 lists Major Groups 72 (less Sub-major Group 726), 73, 82, 83, 92 and 93 (less Sub-major Group 932), Minor Group 6320 and Unit Group 62200, other than a restricted occupation.
What this means: NOC 72411 is in Major Group 72, so it is in a listed group. The group is one condition, not the whole test. The program also asks for at least 2 years of full-time work in the trade in the 5 years before applying, minimum language results, and either a job offer of at least 1 year or a Canadian certificate of qualification.
Express Entry category-based selection, 2026
The rule: IRCC publishes a closed list of NOC codes for each category. NOC 72411 is not on any 2026 occupation list.
What this means: People in this occupation can still be invited in general or program-specific rounds. French-language proficiency is a separate category: it depends on test results (NCLC 7 in all 4 abilities), not on the occupation.
IRCC page modified October 16, 2026, checked November 12, 2026.
Atlantic Immigration Program
The rule: the program takes job offers in TEER 0 to 4 from designated employers in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The job must be full-time and non-seasonal.
What this means: A TEER 2 offer must last at least 1 year from the day the person becomes a permanent resident.
Provincial Nominee Programs
The rule: each province and territory sets its own requirements and streams, including which occupations and TEER levels a stream takes.
What this means: Check the stream's own page for this NOC code. One example from our program status registry:
Program status: OINP Ontario Workforce Priority stream: Open
The stream has launched and the expression of interest portal opened on August 4, 2026. It covers skilled workers with a qualifying job offer in any NOC occupation, plus self-employed physicians.
Verified November 12, 2026 · Official source
Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA)
The rule: an employer, not a worker, applies for an LMIA, and ESDC assesses each job offer. The wage offered, compared with the provincial or territorial threshold, puts the job in the high-wage or low-wage stream.
What this means: Service Canada refuses to process low-wage applications for jobs in census metropolitan areas where unemployment is 6% or higher. Some sectors are exempt, such as primary agriculture, construction, food manufacturing, hospitals, and nursing and residential care. ESDC updates the list of areas each quarter. When this page was checked (September 26, 2026), the ESDC page showed the list for July 10 to October 8, 2026; open the ESDC page for the list in force today. A separate pause covers low-wage jobs in Montréal and Laval.
Wages in Canada
The wages Job Bank publishes for NOC 72411, for Canada as a whole and for each province and territory.
- Low
- $18.50
- per hour
- Median
- $27.00
- per hour
- High
- $40.00
- per hour
What this means: half of the people in this occupation earn less than the median and half earn more. Pay changes with the province, the employer and your experience.
Median by province or territory
| Province or territory | Median (per hour) |
|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $25.00 |
| Prince Edward Island | $25.00 |
| Nova Scotia | $25.00 |
| New Brunswick | $26.50 |
| Quebec | $25.00 |
| Ontario | $29.00 |
| Manitoba | $27.00 |
| Saskatchewan | $27.50 |
| Alberta | $28.75 |
| British Columbia | $31.82 |
| Yukon | $36.46 |
| Northwest Territories | Not published |
| Nunavut | Not published |
Reference period 2023-2024. Data source: Labour Force Survey. ESDC Job Bank wages, release revised 2025-11-19. (opens in a new tab)
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Related occupations
Codes in the same NOC group as 72411, the closest first.
- 72410Automotive service technicianAutomotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairersTEER 2
- 72406Elevator constructorElevator constructors and mechanicsTEER 2
- 72405Machine fittersTEER 2
- 72404Aircraft mechanicAircraft mechanics and aircraft inspectorsTEER 2
- 72403Railway carmen/womenTEER 2
- 72402Refrigeration mechanicHeating, refrigeration and air conditioning mechanicsTEER 2
Questions about this code
What is the TEER of NOC 72411?
NOC 72411 (Auto body collision, refinishing and glass technicians and damage repair estimators) is TEER 2: occupations that usually require a college diploma, apprenticeship training of 2 or more years, or supervisory occupations. In NOC 2021, the second digit of a code is its TEER: in 72411, it is 2. Every job title in this unit group, such as auto body and collision technician, shares that TEER.
Is NOC 72411 eligible for Express Entry?
IRCC counts work experience in TEER 0, 1, 2 or 3 for the Federal Skilled Worker Program and the Canadian Experience Class. NOC 72411 is TEER 2, so work in it sits inside that range. IRCC's 2026 category lists do not include NOC 72411. People in this occupation can still be invited in general or program-specific rounds. IRCC decides each case.
What is the median wage for NOC 72411?
Job Bank reports a median wage of $27.00 an hour for NOC 72411 across Canada. The low figure is $18.50 and the high is $40.00. Medians by province and territory run from $25.00 in Newfoundland and Labrador to $36.46 in Yukon. The figures come from Job Bank's 2025 wage release (Labour Force Survey, 2023-2024).
What job titles are under NOC 72411?
Statistics Canada lists 11 example job titles for NOC 72411, including auto body and collision technician, auto body repairer, automobile damage repair estimator, automotive body mechanic and automotive glass technician. The title alone does not set the code: IRCC compares your duties with the lead statement and main duties on this page.
Can an employer hire for NOC 72411 through an LMIA?
An employer, not a worker, applies for an LMIA, and ESDC assesses each job offer, including the wage. For low-wage jobs, Service Canada refuses to process applications in census metropolitan areas where unemployment is 6% or higher, with some exemptions.
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NOC 2021 Version 1.0: Statistics Canada and ESDC.