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Even the big companies pay less in Canada. I love my home but I am making 3x the money as an intern than I would as a full time dev in Toronto. Unfortunately I
by uw_rob 9y ago
Even the big companies pay less in Canada. I love my home but I am making 3x the money as an intern than I would as a full time dev in Toronto. Unfortunately I cannot stay.
- legolas2412 9y agoHuh, could you share the rough numbers? I'm shocked to hear this. Even In India Google/MSFT pay atleast 25k$ annually to new hires (not including stocks), Purchasing power wise that is around 100k$, right where the US salaries are. US interns get paid around 6-8k a month, let's be generous and say 9k$. Are you saying that as a full time dev you could only earn 3k$ a month? Looks like you could earn more as a garbage truck driver?
- goodcanadian 9y agoI am not the person you replied to, but US$3000 is about CA$4000 or CA$48000 per year. For a junior software development position, that does seem to be in the ballpark of what gets offered in Canada.
- acchow 9y agoThis sounds too low. Everything has gone up in the past couple years - salaries, cost of housing, cost of groceries, restaurant bills.
- pyre 9y agoPeople complain about the "squeeze of the middle class" because salaries have remained stagnant while costs have gone up.
- goodcanadian 9y agoI've been looking over the past few months. CA$50000 for a "software engineer" is a very commonly advertised number. Those appear to be the junior positions to be sure; I have also seen higher numbers (mid level seems to be around CA$70000 with some senior positions around CA$90000), but I cannot write plausible applications for most of those as I am not really a "software engineer" even though I have often been called on to write code. However, adjusted for inflation, CA$50000 is still well below what I started at straight out of university ~15 years ago.
- MichaelGG 9y agoOn the higher end, I'm told 120K seems to be quite upper end for senior development -- this is near Toronto. That even at AMD, getting over 120K was very hard and rare - that's just $90K USD.
- nasalgoat 9y agoI can tell you, any dev getting $120K in Toronto is someone with decades of experience, probably working for a bank. Top end dev pay is about $100K here, especially in the web space. Average would be $60-$75K. And that's Canadian!