In Canada, salaries for tech seem to normally max out around 100k for developers (with exceptions for working for big US/multinational companies like Amazon, MSFT, etc.). Even 80k is pretty common for senior developers... In Canadian dollars. So around 80k USD is max a Canadian developer can expect to make other than a few unusual cases thrown in there which might go as high as 130k CAD so around 100k USD is a stellar Canadian development salary. If you compare this to how H1B workers are paid in the US, it's around those sorts of rates. I don't see it improving any time soon because the revenue that this work generates is not 10x multiples like you see in the US. Canada does not have the VC culture to support a tech culture that produces 100s of millions to billions in returns. If US companies come looking for remote workers they are looking to pay Canadian rates and save money that way.
100k? You’re either massively underpaid or badly misinformed, or both. Several friends living in Toronto make 120k+ and they’re certainly not senior or management. (All in their twenties). And that’s only for homegrown startups - Amazon, etc pay very respectable salaries, especially when you factor the lower cost of living compared to the Bay Area.
This is also why, as a founder, it's very attractive to raise US/global money but build a team in Canada. For developers for your dollar, diversity of talent, high quality education, healthcare, proximity to the US + ease of travel and immegration from the rest of the world, Canada is a great place these days to start a dev team. It's just so much harder now to build, grow and retain a dev team in SV anymore.
That may be because that is about US$100k at the current exchange rates. A cynic would say that the comp has only gone up because the exchange rate has, since tech tends to be denominated in USD.
$100k CAD is not really the max in Canada. That’s how much small startups are paying to hire developers with around 2 years of experience in Kitchener-Waterloo that tends to be cheaper than Toronto
We just hired someone for around that amount and same level of experience last week and we're a small team of 3 so I assume companies bigger than us will pay more
How easy is it for a Canadian to set up the legalities of doing remote in the trump era ? I have an impression it’s only the big fish (fang etc) who with their legions of lawyers can mow a path down for remotes to begin working smoothly (& legally)
