Software Engineer Salary Canada
Average Canadian Software Engineer's Salary :: Software Engineers' Wages in Canada
The table below details the hourly wages for Software Engineers. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 2173.Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: software engineer, software architect, telecommunications software engineer and artificial intelligence (AI) designer.
The pay information below has been split into rough bands as follows:
- Low pay: The bottom 10 percent of workers earn this.
- High pay: The top 10 percent of workers earn this.
- Average pay: The average wage in this sector after removing the bottom 10 percent and the top 10 percent of workers. Average pay is then calculated on the remaining 80 percent of workers' wages.
A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $60,000 - $70,000.
The largest sector of employment for software engineers is professional, scientific and technical services. The average weekly earnings for the professional, scientific and technical services sector as a whole were $1237.65 in January 2012, an increase of 0.3% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in the sector for January 2012 were $34.38.
Average Hourly Wages for Software Engineers in Canada
| Location | Low Wage $ per hr |
Average $ per hr |
High Wage $ per hr |
Year |
| Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta | 25.24 | 37.80 | 63.46 | 2011 |
| Edmonton - Alberta | 28.85 | 35.32 | 43.12 | 2011 |
| Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia | 20.77 | 31.22 | 47.95 | 2008/9 |
| Winnipeg - Manitoba | 21.15 | 32.07 | 45.63 | 2010 |
| Saint John / Sussex / St. Stephen - New Brunswick | 15.00 | 28.00 | 42.00 | 2010 |
| Halifax - Nova Scotia | 20.00 | 34.00 | 40.00 | 2010 |
| Toronto - Ontario | 23.20 | 36.60 | 49.20 | 2010 |
| Ottawa - Ontario | 23.20 | 36.60 | 49.20 | 2010 |
| London / Woodstock - Ontario | 25.00 | 38.65 | 52.69 | 2010 |
| Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario | 23.80 | 35.09 | 49.98 | 2010 |
| Prince Edward Island | 18.00 | 21.25 | 24.50 | 2011 |
| Montreal - Quebec | 20.00 | 34.50 | 48.00 | 2008 |
| Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan | - | 35.84 | - | 2011 |
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