SOFTWARE ENGINEER / SALARY
CANADA

SALARY SURVEYS

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111,828 CAD

$84,399 USD

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108,340 CAD

95,399 CAD

$72,000 USD

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Average salary for Software Engineer / Canada is 111,828 CAD per year. The most typical earning is 95,399 CAD. All data are based on 75 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of 112,492 CAD. Women receive a salary of 100,434 CAD.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Bachelors Degree with salary of 113,419 CAD. The second most paid education level is Some College with salary of 113,287 CAD.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 16-20 Years of experience receive salary of 130,379 CAD. Employees with 12-16 Years of experience receive 128,922 CAD.

Levels / Software Engineer / Canada (Gross CAD)

Salary Levels (CAD) per Year	Surveys	[%]
13,200 CAD - 19,899 CAD	0	n/a
19,900 CAD - 26,499 CAD	0	n/a
26,500 CAD - 33,099 CAD	0	n/a
33,100 CAD - 39,699 CAD	0	n/a
39,700 CAD - 46,399 CAD	1	100% 1.33%
46,400 CAD - 52,999 CAD	2	98.67% 2.67%
53,000 CAD - 59,599 CAD	1	96% 1.33%
59,600 CAD - 66,199 CAD	3	94.67% 4%
66,200 CAD - 72,899 CAD	5	90.67% 6.67%
72,900 CAD - 79,499 CAD	2	84% 2.67%
79,500 CAD - 86,099 CAD	5	81.33% 6.67%
86,100 CAD - 92,699 CAD	5	74.67% 6.67%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
92,700 CAD - 99,399 CAD	11	68% 14.67%
99,400 CAD - 105,999 CAD	7	53.33% 9.33%
106,000 CAD - 112,599 CAD	4	44% 5.33%
112,600 CAD - 119,199 CAD	6	38.67% 8%
119,200 CAD - 125,899 CAD	4	30.67% 5.33%
125,900 CAD - 132,499 CAD	1	25.33% 1.33%
132,500 CAD - 139,099 CAD	6	24% 8%
139,100 CAD - 145,699 CAD	0	n/a
145,700 CAD - 152,399 CAD	1	16% 1.33%
152,400 CAD - 158,999 CAD	1	14.67% 1.33%
159,000 CAD - 165,599 CAD	1	13.33% 1.33%
165,600 CAD - 172,199 CAD	3	12% 4%
172,200 CAD - 178,899 CAD	0	n/a
178,900 CAD - 185,499 CAD	0	n/a
185,500 CAD - 192,099 CAD	2	8% 2.67%
192,100 CAD - 198,699 CAD	2	5.33% 2.67%
HIGH SALARIES
198,700 CAD - 211,999 CAD	0	n/a
212,000 CAD - 225,199 CAD	0	n/a
225,200 CAD - 238,499 CAD	0	n/a
238,500 CAD - 251,699 CAD	0	n/a
251,700 CAD - 264,999 CAD	0	n/a
265,000 CAD - 278,199 CAD	0	n/a
278,200 CAD - 291,499 CAD	1	2.67% 1.33%
291,500 CAD - 304,699 CAD	0	n/a
304,700 CAD - 317,999 CAD	1	1.33% 1.33%
318,000 CAD - 331,199 CAD	0	n/a
331,200 CAD - 463,699 CAD	0	n/a

Gender / Software Engineer / Canada (Gross CAD)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	53	112,492 CAD
2	Women	5	100,434 CAD

Education / Software Engineer / Canada (Gross CAD)

#		Surveys
1	Bachelors Degree	46	113,419 CAD
2	Some College	4	113,287 CAD
3	Masters Degree	24	109,444 CAD
4	Doctorate Degree	1	93,014 CAD

Experience / Software Engineer / Canada (Gross CAD)

#		Surveys
1	16-20 Years	5	130,379 CAD
2	12-16 Years	9	128,922 CAD
3	2-4 Years	9	126,934 CAD
4	4-8 Years	23	113,949 CAD
5	8-12 Years	17	112,624 CAD
6	1-2 Years	6	76,054 CAD
7	20+ Years	3	73,934 CAD
8	0-1 Year	3	73,139 CAD

Age / Software Engineer / Canada (Gross CAD)

#		Surveys
1	41-45	4	135,546 CAD
2	36-40	10	131,042 CAD
3	31-35	16	122,429 CAD
4	n/a	17	113,287 CAD
5	51-55	1	105,469 CAD
6	56-60	3	100,302 CAD
7	46-50	1	100,302 CAD
8	26-30	16	97,784 CAD
9	21-25	5	91,822 CAD
10	61-65	2	60,817 CAD

Work Type / Software Engineer / Canada (Gross CAD)

#		Surveys
1	Contract	6	116,467 CAD
2	Permanent	68	112,094 CAD
3	Part Time	1	62,937 CAD

Cities / Software Engineer / Canada (Gross CAD)

#		Surveys
1	Ottawa	4	170,924 CAD
2	Victoria, Canada	2	153,301 CAD
3	Waterloo	1	124,682 CAD
4	Vancouver, Canada	17	122,032 CAD
5	London, Canada	1	119,647 CAD
6	Edmonton	1	114,082 CAD
7	Toronto	28	108,384 CAD
8	Halifax	3	104,277 CAD
9	Calgary	3	98,712 CAD
10	Montreal	11	96,062 CAD
11	Windsor	1	89,304 CAD
12	--Other--	2	60,817 CAD
13	Quebec City	1	52,867 CAD

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Software Engineer

Posted 04 September 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software Development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Expert	311,400 CAD

Senior Software Developer

Posted 15 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Full-stack development. Design, develop and test custom applications. 
Maintain existing systems."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Montreal	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Intermediate	106,900 CAD

Software Engineer

Posted 29 May 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Cloud, Golang, TypeScript, Python, Node, React."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	Intermediate	137,100 CAD

It Development

Posted 27 May 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Programming
Architecture
Design."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Masters Degree	16-20 Years	Advanced	105,400 CAD

Crm Developer

Posted 21 March 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"CRM developing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Expert	93,700 CAD

Software Developer

Posted 15 February 2022

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Victoria, Canada	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	Advanced	138,600 CAD

Senior Software Engineer

Posted 17 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Develop cloud based enterprise Analytics platform."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	Intermediate	190,100 CAD

Staff Software Engineer

Posted 09 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Algorithms, software architecture, operating systems, networking, cloud computing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	198,500 CAD

Qa Analyst

Posted 08 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Qa analysis and testing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Ottawa	Masters Degree	16-20 Years	Expert	168,000 CAD

Engineering Manager

Posted 21 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Release management, people management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Victoria, Canada	Some College	16-20 Years	Expert	168,000 CAD

Senior Software Engineer

Posted 01 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Building websites."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Some College	4-8 Years	Expert	131,300 CAD

Staff Software Engineer

Posted 01 September 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"C++, architecture, Perl, Java."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	Advanced	189,000 CAD

Professional Qa

Posted 24 August 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Quality assurance testin."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	Intermediate	42,000 CAD

Software Engineer

Posted 23 August 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Back end development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	157,500 CAD

Engineer

Posted 17 July 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Data analyst."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	Advanced	63,000 CAD

Software Engineer In Test

Posted 25 June 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"C#, test automation, Azure."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	Basic	77,700 CAD

Engmeng

Posted 10 June 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Programing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Expert	168,000 CAD

Software Developer

Posted 29 March 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Work and work and work."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Waterloo	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	124,700 CAD

Lead Software Engineer

Posted 21 December 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Python, Java, SQL, NoSQL, Networking."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	69,800 CAD

Customer Success Engineer

Posted 16 November 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"MongoDB, Software, Coding, Database Administration, account management, troubleshooting, client reach outs, networking, programming, projects."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	114,700 CAD

Software Development

Posted 23 September 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Java distributed systems, algorithms."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	192,500 CAD

Solutions Architect

Posted 09 September 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Web industry, Open Source solutions architect."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Montreal	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	96,200 CAD

Solution Architect

Posted 14 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Architecting new software."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	100,300 CAD

Ererer

Posted 20 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Fggj jjjj hhhhh."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Montreal	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	85,200 CAD

Lead Analyst

Posted 22 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software support."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	115,300 CAD

Biotech

Posted 06 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Mostly biotechnology research as well as corporate work, and coding."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Calgary	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	80,200 CAD

Senior It Consultant

Posted 31 July 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Oracle Cloud Implementation."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Vancouver, Canada	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	94,300 CAD

Senior Developer

Posted 14 July 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

". net c# application development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Toronto	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	70,100 CAD

Mobile Developer

Posted 03 October 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Develop mobile apps for Android and iOS."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
--Other--	Masters Degree	20+ Years	n/a	60,800 CAD

Mobile Developer

Posted 03 October 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Develop mobile apps for Android and iOS."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
--Other--	Masters Degree	20+ Years	n/a	60,800 CAD

SOFTWARE ENGINEER / SALARY CANADA

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111,828 CAD

108,340 CAD

95,399 CAD

Average Salary / Software Engineer / Canada

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