Updated July 2026 · Canada · Quebec
Montreal AI compensation.
AI research capital of Canada. Mila and Yoshua Bengio's lab anchor a deep-learning cluster; lower cost-of-living than Toronto with competitive salaries.
AI salaries in Montreal.
A Software Engineer in Montreal earns a median of CA$101,421 per year in base salary.
Base salary, annual, in CAD. Reconciled from ESDC Open Government wages, NOC 2021 coded. Sample sizes are structural placeholders. ESDC does not publish per-cell counts.
| Role | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | CA$71,323 | CA$101,421 | CA$139,838 |
| DevOps Engineer | CA$71,323 | CA$101,421 | CA$139,838 |
| AI Infrastructure Engineer | CA$71,323 | CA$101,421 | CA$139,838 |
| AI Solutions Architect | CA$65,998 | CA$94,682 | CA$130,395 |
| Backend Developer | CA$64,896 | CA$87,194 | CA$124,738 |
| Frontend Developer | CA$55,141 | CA$80,350 | CA$112,050 |
| Full Stack Developer | CA$55,141 | CA$80,350 | CA$112,050 |
City facts.
- Province
- Quebec
- Population (metro)
- 4.4M
- StatCan ER code
- 2470
- Industries
- ai-research, deep-learning, gaming, ai-tooling
How the Montreal number is built.
Montreal figures come from ESDC's Open Government wages dataset, which publishes per-occupation pay at the Economic Region level. Montreal resolves via Statistics Canada Economic Region 2470, and each Orbyt role maps to its NOC 2021 occupation code. The figure is gross base salary in Canadian dollars; provincial and federal income tax is the consumer's calculation, not baked in.
Every estimate traces back to its government source through the methodology paper. The figure is served in native Canadian dollars.
Cite the source.
Every Montreal estimate Orbyt publishes traces back to a specific government data source. The methodology paper documents the per-source weights, confidence tiers, and reconciliation rules.