Computer and information systems managers salary in Canada
$131,740CAD/YR
Computer and information systems managers in Canada earn a median of $131,740 a year, about $66.67 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $131,740 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $93,399. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $104,515 buys in the United States. Those are two answers to two different questions, and the distance between them is the thing worth reading — here it is a factor of 1.12.
At the exchange rate At local prices The disagreement
The hollow marker is the exchange-rate reading: what the money is worth if it leaves. The solid marker is the purchasing-power reading: what it is worth if it stays. The hatched span between them is the disagreement, and it is what every single-country salary site leaves out.
SOURCE·European Central Bank reference rates (via Frankfurter) and World Bank PPP conversion factor PA.NUS.PRVT.PP·FX 2026-07-29·REVIEWED PPP 2025
How Canada arrived at this figure, and what it is not
- Employment and Social Development Canada publishes Job Bank wage data for the reference period 2025. We take the occupation row as released and change nothing in it.
- 2021 Census wage distributions by NOC and economic region
- Where the agency publishes a distribution we carry the whole distribution, because a single average throws away the part of the answer people are actually asking about.
- The wage is then read twice: converted at the European Central Bank reference rate for 2026-07-29, and divided by the World Bank purchasing-power conversion factor for CAN. Both readings are printed; neither is presented as the answer.
- Countries measure pay differently. A tax return, an employer payroll survey, a PAYE sample and a household survey are four different instruments, and gaps of a few per cent between countries are the instruments, not the wages.
converted = CAD 131,740 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 131,740 / PPP(CAN) disagreement = adjusted / converted
Where it pays more in Canada
Median pay for this occupation by area, highest-employing first.
| Area | Median | vs national |
|---|---|---|
| Nunavut | $149,050 | +13% |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | $136,680 | +4% |
| Wood Buffalo--Cold Lake | $136,581 | +4% |
| Montréal | $134,902 | +2% |
| Calgary | $134,902 | +2% |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | $134,803 | +2% |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | $134,190 | +2% |
| Toronto | $133,755 | +2% |
| Kingston--Pembroke | $133,518 | +1% |
| Quebec | $133,479 | +1% |
| Camrose--Drumheller | $133,340 | +1% |
| Thompson--Okanagan | $133,123 | +1% |
| Alberta | $133,005 | +1% |
| Edmonton | $133,005 | +1% |
| Lower Mainland | $133,005 | +1% |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | $132,945 | +1% |
| Laval | $132,056 | +0% |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | $131,878 | +0% |
| Red Deer | $131,839 | +0% |
| Montérégie | $131,740 | +0% |
| Outaouais | $131,740 | +0% |
| Ontario | $131,740 | +0% |
| Ottawa | $131,740 | +0% |
| London | $131,740 | +0% |
| Cariboo | $131,424 | -0% |
Regional figures come from the same release as the national one. Where an area is missing, the source suppressed it for sample-size reasons rather than reporting an unreliable estimate.
Every figure this page rests on
| Reading | CAD | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Median | $131,740 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $139,604 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $104,491 | — |
| 75th percentile | $164,660 | — |
| Hourly | $66.67 | Median at 38 hrs/week |
Employment and Social Development Canada · 2025
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What people ask next
- How much do computer and information systems managers earn in Canada?
- The median is $131,740 a year, about $66.67 an hour, according to Employment and Social Development Canada, Job Bank wage data 2025.
- Is that figure before or after tax?
- Before. Every figure on this page is gross pay as the statistics agency published it — income tax, social contributions and any deductions come off afterwards, and they differ enough between countries that we do not model them.
- Why is the US-dollar figure different depending on where I read it?
- Because there are two of them. $131,740 converts to $93,399 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $104,515 buys in the United States once Canada's price level is accounted for. The first answers "what could I wire abroad", the second answers "how well does someone live on this".
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