Star grads can hope for base pay of around $100,000 “in many cases,” said Larry Smith, director of the Problem Lab at the University of Waterloo and a longtime informal career counsellor at the school. READ MORE: Amazon opens automated supermarket, spelling doom for retail cashiers
“It’s getting harder to find people to cross the border.”Īnd anecdotal evidence suggests that the $100,000 entry-level job is no longer a unicorn for Canada’s data scientists. “Trump is starting to work to our advantage,” Ward said. company, “where the Canadian pay practice has been influenced by a different practice.”īut that could become more common as the U.S.’s politics and tough stance on immigration make it more difficult for Silicon Valley to attract Canada’s top tech brains. The highest salary in that data set was $104,000, which was for a Canada-based data science job at a U.S. The IT world Ward is talking about has little to do with the traditional tech-help desk in charge of keeping company computers running and dealing with the inevitable printer jam. Even including more traditional IT jobs, the unemployment rate was a low 2.6 per cent in the sector in 2017, according to Canada’s Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC). “There’s a one per cent unemployment rate in IT in Canada right now,” said Jonathan Ward of Ward Technology Talent, a Toronto-based recruiter. But a Global News inquiry suggests that top graduates in Canada’s own tech industry are increasingly crossing the six-figure mark for entry-level jobs that don’t always require an advanced degree. Until recently, that was the stuff of Silicon Valley dreams. Imagine landing a $100,000 job straight out of school and without the oppressive student debt that usually comes with an MBA, a law degree or at the end of medical school. Whether you’re figuring out your first career path or looking to change directions, a new series from Global News, Hot Jobs, focuses on career strategy for a new era in work. Send this page to someone via email email.
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