Updated July 2026 · Canada · Ontario
Ottawa AI compensation.
Canada's capital and a federal-tech corridor. Strong cybersecurity and government-services presence; growing AI engineering footprint.
AI salaries in Ottawa.
A Software Engineer in Ottawa earns a median of CA$117,998 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Product Manager | CA$93,746 | CA$138,674 | CA$223,995 |
| Engineering Manager | CA$93,746 | CA$138,674 | CA$223,995 |
| Software Engineer | CA$75,005 | CA$117,998 | CA$183,040 |
| DevOps Engineer | CA$75,005 | CA$117,998 | CA$183,040 |
| AI Infrastructure Engineer | CA$75,005 | CA$117,998 | CA$183,040 |
| Backend Developer | CA$69,992 | CA$104,541 | CA$169,000 |
| AI Solutions Architect | CA$60,008 | CA$102,606 | CA$159,994 |
| Data Scientist | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| Data Engineer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| AI Engineer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| ML Engineer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| Prompt Engineer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| NLP Engineer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| Computer Vision Engineer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| AI Research Scientist | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| LLM Engineer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| Generative AI Developer | CA$62,400 | CA$100,277 | CA$145,059 |
| Frontend Developer | CA$58,802 | CA$89,253 | CA$126,901 |
| Full Stack Developer | CA$58,802 | CA$89,253 | CA$126,901 |
City facts.
- Province
- Ontario
- Population (metro)
- 1.5M
- StatCan ER code
- 3510
- Industries
- cybersecurity, government-tech, ai-engineering
How the Ottawa number is built.
Ottawa figures come from ESDC's Open Government wages dataset, which publishes per-occupation pay at the Economic Region level. Ottawa resolves via Statistics Canada Economic Region 3510, 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 Ottawa estimate Orbyt publishes traces back to a specific government data source. The methodology paper documents the per-source weights, confidence tiers, and reconciliation rules.