10 Canadian Jobs That Pay Well for an Actual 40 Hours a Week (or Less)

Dentists focus on your pearlies and examine, diagnose and treat the various conditions that affect your teeth and gums. They can run their practices out of their own clinics and set their own availabilities, typically working alongside dental hygienists in keeping your mouth healthy.

Average hours typically worked a week: 35 hours per week

Average earned income: $140,000 per year (depending on the location and size of the practice)

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Just as a dentist is a specialist for your teeth and gums, the optometrist’s specialty is your eye health. They can examine, diagnose, manage and treat various conditions that affect your visual system, including, say, if you need glasses.

Average hours typically worked a week: 41 hours per week

Average earned income: $103,838 per year

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Working primarily for pharmacies and drugstores, pharmacists fill prescriptions from doctors and dispense drugs directly to patients, advising them on how to take the medication.

Average hours typically worked a week: 37.5 hours per week

Average earned income: $97,487 per year

They assess and treat persons with speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. Working with patients to correct speech-disorders like stutters and lisps, a speech language pathologist comes, the majority of practicing pathologists work with youth, many working out of junior or secondary schools. This allows them to both set their appointments and benefit from the months of summer vacation each year.

Average hours typically worked a week: 37 hours per week

Average earned income: $83,000 per year

Radiation therapists work hands-on with cancer patients to plan and administer radiation therapy —potentially life saving treatments that vary depending what the radiologist prescribes to treat the specific type and stage of cancer in each patient.

Average hours typically worked a week: 37-40 hours per week

Average earned income: $75,075 per year

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Occupational therapists spend more time giving patients hands-on treatment than sitting at a desk.They provide rehabilitative support and procedures that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, typically working with those who have additional physical and / or mental needs, such as following a car accident. Rewarding in itself, this role also typically operates in an appointment-only capacity, meaning you could essentially make set your own hours and work, as many do, less than the standard 40-hour workweek.

Average hours typically worked a week: 40 hours per week

Average earned income: $72,735 per year

Audiologists examine, diagnose, and treat those that may have a hearing impairment or related disorders. This is a great career option for those who are interested in healthcare but can’t stand the sight of blood.

Average hours typically worked a week: 32 hours per week

Average earned income: $66,320 per year

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A physical therapist works with patients who are looking to treat physical injuries and regain motion and functionality of those joints that are causing them pain or limited mobility - while at the same time working toward uncovering the root cause and preventing future risk of re-injury.

Average hours typically worked a week: 37.5 hours per week

Average earned income: $72,735 per year

A registered nurse is basically a doctor’s right hand, assessing a patient’s health and helping to develop the best treatment program, as well as working with patients and their families on post-treatment care.

Average hours typically worked a week: 40 hours per week (though this may be shifting upwards as hospitals become increasingly understaffed, and some nurses find themselves working overtime hours and with fewer breaks)

Average earned income: $53,040 to $78,000 a year (depending on number of years in service)

Sometimes called a legal clerk, they assist judges in court or by conducting research or preparing legal documents.

Average hours typically worked a week: 40 hours per week

Average earned income: $55,000 to $92,500 per year (depending on experience)