Storekeeper: pay in Quebec and Greater Montreal
A storekeeper runs an organization's storeroom: receiving deliveries, shelving materials, tools and consumables, issuing them against a requisition or a work order, and reordering before an item runs out. Around Montreal the job sits in plants, maintenance shops, school service centres and health-care facilities. This page covers the duties, the shifts, the training and wages by region.
- Quebec median
- $24/h
- Range
- $20 – $36/h
- Montreal
- $25.44/h
Guichet-Emplois (Job Bank), edition 2025 · CNP 14401
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Storekeeper pay, region by region
| Region | Low | Median | High | vs Quebec | Offered in postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All of Quebec | $20 | $24 | $36 | — | — |
| Montérégie | $18 | $24 | $31 | 0% | $24 (64) |
| Montréal | $20.16 | $25.44 | $35.05 | +6% | $23 (58) |
| Laval | No data of its own: Job Bank shows the Quebec figures | $21 (23) | |||
| Lanaudière | No data of its own: Job Bank shows the Quebec figures | $24 (21) | |||
| Laurentides | No data of its own: Job Bank shows the Quebec figures | $24.75 (22) | |||
The table covers NOC 14401, “Storekeepers and partspersons”. It pools the plant storekeeper, the tool room attendant, the material keeper and the ammunition storekeeper with the automotive parts clerk working a retail counter. The plant storeroom is not measured on its own.
Low, median and high wages published by Job Bank (NOC 14401), and pay offered in Greater Montreal job postings (6 months, February to August 2026); in brackets, the number of hourly postings — under ten, no median is shown.
Quebec median by file edition: 2023: $24.50/h · 2024: $23/h · 2025: $24/h.
What the job postings say
Of 197 postings on Job Bank in Greater Montreal (6 months, February to August 2026), 2% mention a night shift, 8% an evening shift and 3% weekends.
The storeroom follows the crews it serves, not the other way around. In a plant running one shift, it opens on days, alongside production and maintenance. Once the plant runs evenings and nights, two models exist: either the storeroom is staffed across shifts, or it closes and the evening crew draws from an emergency cabinet that a supervisor signs for — which dumps all the reconciliation on the day storekeeper the next morning. Planned shutdowns usually land on weekends, and that is exactly when the storeroom has to be open. In the public sector the schedule is set by the collective agreement, generally days and weekdays.
What a storekeeper does
- Receive deliveries, check them against the purchase order and log damage and short shipments
- Shelve materials, consumables and wear parts at coded locations in the storeroom
- Issue materials against a requisition or a work order and charge them to the right equipment or department
- Lend out tools and measuring instruments, track their return and flag what comes back damaged
- Maintain minimum and maximum levels for every item and raise replenishment requests
- Enter every movement in the site's system: ERP, CMMS or warehouse management system
- Run cycle counts and the full physical inventory, then document and explain the variances
- Receive and store hazardous products according to WHMIS labels and safety data sheets (SIMDUT in French)
- Stage materials ahead of planned shutdowns and scheduled maintenance work
- Keep the storeroom in order: racking, signage, controlled access and cleared locations
Requirements, cards and certifications
- A secondary school diploma: the National Occupational Classification states it is usually required for occupation 14401
- Able to read a purchase order, a requisition, a work order and an equipment bill of materials
- Comfortable in an ERP or a CMMS and with a barcode scanner — the storeroom is kept as much at the keyboard as on the shelf
- WHMIS training (SIMDUT in French) as soon as the storeroom receives or stores hazardous products, with the labels and safety data sheets the CNESST, Quebec's workplace health and safety board, requires be kept current
- Forklift training under section 256.3 of the Règlement sur la santé et la sécurité du travail, Quebec's health and safety regulation, whenever the job includes driving a lift truck; Québec.ca notes that a forklift card may be required or count as an asset
- In the public sector, the qualifications attached to the job class: for class I of the support staff classification plan, a DEP (secondary vocational diploma) in a relevant specialty or a secondary V diploma, plus two years of relevant experience
Training
No law reserves the title of storekeeper in Quebec, and no single diploma opens the door. The National Occupational Classification only states that a secondary school diploma is usually required for occupation 14401; the rest is learned on site, on that employer's system and that employer's part numbers. The closest school program is the DEP en conseil et vente de pièces d'équipement motorisé (5347), a secondary-level vocational diploma that Inforoute FPT lists at 1,095 hours in the motorized equipment sector — it aims at the vehicle and machinery parts counter more than at a plant storeroom. The public sector is stricter: for class I of the school support staff classification plan, you need a DEP in a relevant specialty or a secondary V diploma plus two years of relevant experience, and some service centres add a French and Excel test to pass before the posting closes. Finally, the trade of partsperson is a Red Seal trade and Quebec is among the designated provinces and territories — that is the parts route, not a condition for running a plant storeroom.
Career path
Experienced storekeepers move up to a principal class or head storekeeper role, coordinating the other storekeepers and routine purchasing. Two sideways moves recur: inventory control and purchasing, which the National Occupational Classification keeps separate as occupation 14403, and maintenance planning, where the same knowledge of the equipment is used to prepare the work instead of serving it. Supervising parts clerks is another occupation again, 12013.
Frequently asked questions
What does a storekeeper do?
A storekeeper runs an organization's storeroom: receiving and checking deliveries, shelving materials at coded locations, issuing them against a requisition or a work order, lending out tools and getting them back, and reordering when an item drops below its minimum. Counting what is left and explaining the variances is part of the job too.
How much does a storekeeper make in Quebec?
The table above gives the Quebec median and the median for each Greater Montreal region, drawn from Job Bank data. It covers occupation 14401, which pools the plant storeroom with a retailer's parts counter — the note under the table spells out what that grouping contains. Where a region has no figure of its own, the cell stays empty.
What qualifications do you need to be a storekeeper?
A secondary school diploma, most of the time. The National Occupational Classification states it is usually required for occupation 14401, without naming a program. Quebec's public sector goes further: for class I of the support staff classification plan, a DEP in a relevant specialty or a secondary V diploma, plus two years of relevant experience.
What is the difference between a storekeeper and an inventory controller?
The storekeeper runs the physical storeroom: receiving, shelving, issuing, counting. The inventory controller decides — what to order, how much, at what trigger point. The National Occupational Classification separates the two: storekeepers sit in 14401, purchasing and inventory control clerks in 14403. In a small plant one person usually does both.
Is a storekeeper the same thing as a parts clerk?
They are two job titles inside the same occupation, 14401, but not the same work. The storekeeper runs a storeroom of materials, tools and consumables, usually feeding a plant's maintenance crew. The parts clerk handles replacement parts: part numbers, bills of materials and supplier catalogues, sometimes at a retail counter.
What is a storekeeper in a Quebec school service centre?
It is a defined job class in the support staff classification plan, with several levels. Class I takes responsibility for the storeroom, coordinates its operations and may train new storekeepers; it also lends out instruments, tools and audiovisual equipment and sees to their return. Some service centres add a French and Excel test that has to be passed before the posting period.
What does a storekeeper do in a Quebec hospital or CIUSSS?
In the health and social services network, the storekeeper is responsible for supply, receiving, verification, classification, storage, inventory and distribution of goods to the facility's departments. A secondary school diploma is the stated education requirement. Medical supplies add rotation and expiry rules that a plant storeroom rarely deals with.
Do you need a forklift card to be a storekeeper in Quebec?
Only if the job includes driving a lift truck — and then it is the training required by section 256.3 of the Règlement sur la santé et la sécurité du travail that applies, not the storekeeper title itself. Québec.ca notes a forklift card may be required or count as an asset for this occupation. Plenty of maintenance storerooms run on pallet jacks alone.
Do storekeepers work evenings or nights?
The storeroom follows the crews it serves. In a one-shift plant it opens on days. Once production runs evenings and nights, either the storeroom is staffed across shifts or an emergency cabinet takes over and a supervisor signs for what comes out. Planned shutdowns, for their part, tend to land on weekends.
Are there part-time storekeeper jobs around Montreal?
Yes, mostly in small storerooms and in the public sector, where the schedule is set by the collective agreement. In plants, part-time work tends to cover a second shift or the shutdown weekends. This page describes the occupation and what the wage table actually measures; it does not advertise an open role.
Can you become a storekeeper with no experience?
Often yes in the private sector, because most of the knowledge is site-specific: the part numbers, the locations, the system. Receiving, shipping or warehouse work is the usual way in. The public sector is harder to enter cold, since the classification plan attaches years of relevant experience to the job class itself.
What is a storekeeper called in French in Quebec?
« Magasinier » or « magasinière ». Job Bank files the occupation under « Magasiniers/magasinières et commis aux pièces », NOC 14401. The storeroom itself is « le magasin », which is also the everyday word for a shop — context does the work. A tool crib is « un dépôt d'outils ».
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