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Shopify https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/Shopify-Ottawa-Salaries-EI_IE675933.0,7_IL.8,14_IM981.htm https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/Shopify-Ottawa-Salaries-EI_I..

by tensor 9y ago

Shopify https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/Shopify-Ottawa-Salaries-EI_IE675933.0,7_IL.8,14_IM981.htm https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/Shopify-Ottawa-Salaries-EI_I... Software Developer $80,947 Software Engineer $96,600 500px https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/500px-Salaries-E600778.htm https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/500px-Salaries-E600778.htm Software Engineer $93,333 The averages are pulled down by lots of mediocre companies. Startups and big places like Google and IBM have salaries that are nowhere close to your numbers. Couple this with taxes here being much much lower than say the bay area, and you are doing really well living here.

r-s 9y ago
For reference: $96,600 CAD == $71,718 USD
- FreedomToCreate 9y ago
  Note that is at the current exchange rate
- tensor 9y ago
  Sure, but most of these sky high US salaries are in the bay area. So consider that the cost of living is roughly double there: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&country2=United+States&city1=Toronto&city2=San+Francisco%2C+CA https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
52-6F-62 9y ago
You're listing two companies that are veritable unicorns in Toronto. There are a handful of successful mid-level companies like those in the city, and tens of thousands of hungry developers earning far less at non-technologically focused companies. The average Torontonian (in any field) earns ~$50-70k and costs here are quite high still, even if they trail San Francisco by ~30%. To wit: on that average salary you certainly won't starve, but pick one: save money, buy a car, have a child (and that might be a stretch).