This guide gives official starting points. Confirm the remaining local, employer and role-specific requirements before paying for training.
Your route into security
How to become a security officer in New Brunswick
Check your eligibility
- Employment with a licensed agency.
- Legal entitlement to work in Canada.
- Government-issued photo identification and the required photograph.
- Disclosure and assessment of criminal charges as specified by the licensing authority.
Find a licensed agency
Check the government agency list and confirm the proposed role and training arrangements.
Prepare the agent application
Complete the form with identity, photograph, work-entitlement evidence and required disclosures.
Obtain the licence and induction
Submit the application and fee through the agency process, then complete the site's instructions and any equipment-specific authorisation.
Training in New Brunswick
What training do you need?
Confirm the employer's induction and the licensing authority's requirements for the assignment. The current public application page establishes the worker-licence route. Batons and handcuffs have a separate security-services training policy.
How long is the training?
Confirm with the employer. A universal basic guarding-course duration was not established in the reviewed regulator pages.
How much does it cost?
Training providers in New Brunswick
Provider listings for this location are being checked. Use the official authority link above to confirm accepted training.
Prices and availability are checked on the dates cited. Directory inclusion identifies a source to investigate; confirmed partnerships are agreed separately.
Security guard & officer pay
How much do security guards earn in New Brunswick?
Job Bank reports a median of CAD 18.00 per hour for NOC 64410, security guards and related security service occupations. Reference period: 2023–2024; Labour Force Survey; table updated 2025-11-19. This occupational benchmark includes different roles and experience levels.
Median gross hourly wage, NOC 64410 · 2023–2024; published 2025-11-19
Compare hours, gross or net pay, overtime and benefits. Wage floors and occupational medians describe different measures.
Before you take your next step
- Agency licensing and the individual worker application have different fees.
- The Act includes exemptions for specified in-house employment; confirm whether an exemption applies to the actual job.
- Baton and handcuff training has separate approval and re-certification requirements.
Official sources and course information
- New Brunswick application and fee
- Security-services training policy
- Private Investigators and Security Services Act
- Job Bank wages
Reviewed 2026-09-16. Follow the current instructions for your precise role and work location.