The Esquimalt Graving Dock (EGD) is the largest non-military hard bottomed drydock on the west coast of the Americas and is located at the south end of Vancouver Island at Esquimalt Harbour, in the Greater Victoria region. It is a federally owned and operated ship repair facility and is unique in that it operates as an "open access" "multi-user" facility. The terms "open access" "multi-user" describes a facility that provides common services (on a fee-for-service basis) to various commercial ship repair firms and provides access to dry dock infrastructure for a wide range of coastal and ocean-going vessels. Its principal stakeholders are the vessel owners that rely on the facility for repair, maintenance, and refit. This includes the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Coast Guard and BC Ferries, as well as many foreign and private vessel owners (including cruise ship lines) that regularly use the facility. There are approximately 2000 personnel working on the grounds of the facility at
The median wage is the salary of a given occupation where half the workers earn more than that amount, and half earn less. This information is presented on job postings to help job seekers determine how the salary compares to the amount earned by other workers working the same job. Job Bank preferred indicating the median wage, which is less affected by extremely high or low wages, rather than the average wage which is calculated by adding up all the salaries of a group of people and then dividing that total by the number of people.