Architects salary in Canada
$76,945CAD/YR
Architects in Canada earn a median of $76,945 a year, about $38.94 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $76,945 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $54,552. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $61,044 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 76,945 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 76,945 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kootenay | $92,200 | +20% |
| Thompson--Okanagan | $91,291 | +19% |
| Calgary | $90,738 | +18% |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | $90,442 | +18% |
| Alberta | $90,283 | +17% |
| Lower Mainland | $89,671 | +17% |
| British Columbia | $89,197 | +16% |
| Edmonton | $88,545 | +15% |
| Windsor--Sarnia | $86,904 | +13% |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | $81,806 | +6% |
| Ontario | $81,075 | +5% |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | $81,075 | +5% |
| Manitoba | $81,075 | +5% |
| Winnipeg | $81,075 | +5% |
| Nova Scotia | $80,759 | +5% |
| Halifax | $80,759 | +5% |
| Toronto | $80,759 | +5% |
| Saskatchewan | $80,680 | +5% |
| Northeast | $80,502 | +5% |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | $78,684 | +2% |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | $78,032 | +1% |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | $77,894 | +1% |
| New Brunswick | $77,499 | +1% |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | $75,068 | -2% |
| Montréal | $71,255 | -7% |
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 | $76,945 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $88,406 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $61,750 | — |
| 75th percentile | $108,305 | — |
| Hourly | $38.94 | 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 architects earn in Canada?
- The median is $76,945 a year, about $38.94 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. $76,945 converts to $54,552 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $61,044 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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