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Canadian data · Ontario, Canada
The same forty minutes, ten times. You know every light. Someone gets on without fare and you decide, in two seconds and alone, what kind of day everyone is going to have.
Class licence plus employer training — paid
A licence — without it you cannot legally do the work.
Employer-paid in most systems
You earn while you learn.
$55k – $85ka year, Ontario
The low number is what you should plan on for the first years.
Openings a year
1,100 openings a year · More of it each year
Service hours keep expanding and retirements are steep.
Who else is asking
about 15 people per opening
Big queues at the big agencies. Smaller municipal systems hire almost on sight.
Whether a machine takes it
exposure: medium
Automated rail exists. Buses on mixed streets remain stubbornly human.
Where the work is
cities
Wherever there is a transit system, which is every city over about 50,000.
Who actually does it
who's in the room
Wide age range at entry, many arriving from long-haul or delivery driving.
How soon you earn
About 6 weeks to your first paycheque
Counted from the day you decide, not the day you start.
Competitive but volume hiring: roughly 1 in 6 applicants is hired per intake.
That's a real wall, and it's better to know now. People do get through — usually the ones who applied twice and spent the gap year in a related job. The near neighbours below have no such wall.
Split shifts for the first years, and the public on a bad night.
Dispatch, training, supervision, transit planning.
Ride one full route end to end at 6am and again at 11pm. Same route, two different jobs.
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