Warehouse clerk: pay in Quebec and Greater Montreal
A warehouse clerk receives goods, assigns them a storage location and records every movement in the warehouse management system. Around Montreal, the work sits in the distribution centres and parts warehouses of Montreal, Laval, the Montérégie and the Laurentides. This page covers the duties, the shifts, the training required and wages by region.
- Quebec median
- $22/h
- Range
- $17.31 – $30/h
- Montreal
- $20.50/h
Guichet-Emplois (Job Bank), edition 2025 · CNP 14400
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Warehouse clerk pay, region by region
| Region | Low | Median | High | vs Quebec | Offered in postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All of Quebec | $17.31 | $22 | $30 | — | — |
| Montérégie | $16.10 | $21.50 | $30.10 | −2% | $22 (82) |
| Montréal | $17.82 | $20.50 | $28 | −7% | $22 (65) |
| Laval | $17 | $21.63 | $29.27 | −2% | $20.50 (27) |
| Lanaudière | No data of its own: Job Bank shows the Quebec figures | $21.33 (26) | |||
| Laurentides | No data of its own: Job Bank shows the Quebec figures | $21 (36) | |||
The table reads NOC 14400, “Shippers and receivers”, which puts the people who receive and the people who ship under the same figures. The title “warehouse clerk” straddles two codes on Job Bank: general merchandise sits in 14400, while a parts-and-equipment warehouse clerk is filed under 14401 with storekeepers.
Low, median and high wages published by Job Bank (NOC 14400), 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: $19.41/h · 2024: $20.50/h · 2025: $22/h.
What the job postings say
Of 252 postings on Job Bank in Greater Montreal (6 months, February to August 2026), 2% mention a night shift, 3% an evening shift and 3% weekends.
Warehouses mostly receive on days and ship in the evening, and the clerk follows that rhythm. Days are for deliveries, checks against purchase orders and calls to suppliers when a box is missing. Evenings shift toward put-away and replenishing the pick locations. Cycle counts happen early in the morning or on weekends, when stock stops moving — that is the only window where the system and the shelf can agree. In a parts warehouse attached to a plant, the schedule tracks production, planned shutdowns included.
What a warehouse clerk does
- Receive deliveries and check items against the invoice and the purchase order
- Enter receipts in the warehouse management system, code the items and print labels
- Assign a location to each item and keep rack and shelf location codes current
- Unpack, sort and put away received goods in storage and picking zones
- Run cycle counts and investigate every gap between the system and the shelf
- Pull parts and supplies requested by production, the shop or other departments
- Keep inventory records, on paper or in the system, and flag reorder points
- Process returns, goods damaged on arrival and parts going back to the supplier
- Drive a forklift or pallet jack when needed to move a pallet to its location
- File the paperwork for dangerous goods received, following the site procedure
Requirements, cards and certifications
- Secondary school completion — the usual entry requirement the National Occupational Classification lists for NOC 14400
- Real comfort with a warehouse management system, a scanner and a spreadsheet: most of the job runs through a screen
- WHMIS training (SIMDUT in French) provided by the employer as soon as the warehouse receives or stores hazardous products, as Quebec's Règlement sur l'information concernant les produits dangereux requires and the CNESST enforces
- A dangerous goods training certificate signed by the employer if you handle or offer regulated shipments: Part 6 of the federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations makes it valid 36 months for road transport
- Forklift training meeting section 256.3 of the Règlement sur la santé et la sécurité du travail, Quebec's health and safety regulation, as soon as the role includes driving a lift truck
- Discipline with numbers: a counting gap gets traced, not guessed
- A class 5 driver's licence where the role includes parts runs to a supplier
Training
The National Occupational Classification lists secondary school completion as the usual entry requirement for NOC 14400, along with experience in warehouse or office work; it adds that forklift certification and a driver's licence may be asked for. No vocational diploma is required to start. The rest is learned on site: the warehouse management system, the location plan, the counting procedure, how to code a return. To move up, Inforoute FPT lists the AEC Logistique du transport (LCA.DS), a college attestation of 1,230 hours including 255 of internship, offered at Cégep André-Laurendeau in LaSalle, plus the DEC Techniques de la logistique du transport at several colleges.
Career path
Experienced warehouse clerks become shift leads, then warehouse supervisors. Those who like the numbers move into inventory control or purchasing: the National Occupational Classification treats those as separate occupations, with their own wages. For logistics coordination, the classification gives as its entry requirement a postsecondary credential of under two years, or experience as a dispatcher, production clerk or scheduling clerk.
Frequently asked questions
What does a warehouse clerk do?
A warehouse clerk receives goods, puts them away at a set location and keeps the record of what comes in and what goes out. They check items against the invoice, code receipts in the warehouse management system and run cycle counts. Handling is part of the job, but the record is the core of it.
How much does a warehouse clerk make in Canada?
The table above covers Quebec and the Greater Montreal regions, not Canada as a whole. Job Bank publishes a national profile for the same occupation, and the gaps between provinces are real. For a role in Montreal or Laval, the regional row is the one that matters, not the national average.
How much does a warehouse clerk make in Quebec?
The table above gives the Quebec median and the median for each Greater Montreal region, drawn from Job Bank data. It reads NOC 14400, and the note under the table spells out what that occupation pools. Where a region has no figure of its own, the cell stays empty rather than repeating the provincial median.
What is the role of a clerk in a warehouse?
A clerk keeps the records of a department. In a warehouse that means reconciling three things: what the purchase order says, what arrives on the dock and what the system shows. When the three disagree, the clerk traces the gap, calls the supplier and corrects the record.
Can you get a warehouse clerk job without a diploma?
The National Occupational Classification lists secondary school completion as the usual entry requirement for NOC 14400, not as a legal obligation. Employers do hire without it and train on their own system. What more often stops an application is weak comfort with a spreadsheet and a scanner.
Why is “warehouse clerk” not a title in the classification?
The title covers the person who keeps a warehouse's inventory: receiving, locations, counts, paperwork. It is not a title in the National Occupational Classification, which says “shippers and receivers” for NOC 14400 and “storekeepers and parts clerks” for NOC 14401. Job postings use both, often for the same work.
What is the NOC code for a warehouse clerk?
NOC 14400, “Shippers and receivers”, when the job covers the goods of a warehouse or distribution centre. Job Bank files the parts-and-equipment warehouse clerk under NOC 14401 instead, with storekeepers. Read the duties in the posting before trusting the title — the two codes do not report the same wages.
Does a warehouse clerk need to drive a forklift?
Not always, but often. The National Occupational Classification lists “operate a forklift or a hand truck as required” among the duties of NOC 14400. Once driving is part of the role, the training under section 256.3 of the Règlement sur la santé et la sécurité du travail and the employer's authorization both apply.
What is the difference between a warehouse clerk and a material handler?
The clerk answers for the record, the material handler answers for the move. They work side by side all day but sit in two different occupations: NOC 14400 for the clerk, NOC 75101 for the material handler. That is why their wages appear in two separate tables on this site.
What is the difference between a warehouse clerk and a shipping clerk?
The warehouse clerk owns the stock and the locations; the shipping clerk owns the dock and the carriers. The National Occupational Classification pools both in NOC 14400, and plenty of warehouses give one person both jobs. In a large distribution centre the two roles split apart.
Where are the warehouse clerk jobs around Montreal and Laval?
In the warehouse and distribution districts: Saint-Laurent and Anjou in Montreal, Lachine and Dorval near the airport, the industrial sector of Laval, Boucherville and Longueuil on the South Shore. Job Bank splits Greater Montreal into regions, and the table above follows that split. This page describes the occupation; it advertises nothing.
What is “commis d'entrepôt” in English?
Warehouse clerk, and shipping and receiving clerk when the posting leans on the dock. Job Bank renders NOC 14400 as “shippers and receivers”. Bilingual Montreal postings also use inventory clerk for the counting side and stockkeeper for the put-away side, for the same underlying job.
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