Mechanical engineers salary in Canada
$90,244CAD/YR
Mechanical engineers in Canada earn a median of $90,244 a year, about $45.67 an hour.
SOURCE·Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wage data·Open Government Licence – Canada·REVIEWED 2025
What $90,244 is actually worth
Move this wage out of Canada and it converts to $63,980. Spend it where it was earned and it buys what $71,595 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 90,244 / FX(CAD->USD) adjusted = CAD 90,244 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Camrose--Drumheller | $108,206 | +20% |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | $107,257 | +19% |
| Red Deer | $106,309 | +18% |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | $106,131 | +18% |
| Alberta | $104,491 | +16% |
| Calgary | $104,491 | +16% |
| Lethbridge--Medicine Hat | $104,115 | +15% |
| Edmonton | $103,799 | +15% |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | $100,322 | +11% |
| Outaouais | $99,472 | +10% |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | $99,314 | +10% |
| Saskatchewan | $98,800 | +9% |
| Saint John--St. Stephen | $98,602 | +9% |
| Kingston--Pembroke | $98,049 | +9% |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | $97,496 | +8% |
| Windsor--Sarnia | $96,903 | +7% |
| Ottawa | $96,666 | +7% |
| Prince Albert | $95,836 | +6% |
| Laurentides | $95,046 | +5% |
| Northeast | $95,026 | +5% |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | $94,492 | +5% |
| Laval | $94,374 | +5% |
| Northwest | $94,058 | +4% |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | $93,919 | +4% |
| Lanaudière | $93,761 | +4% |
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 | $90,244 | The middle earner |
| Mean | $98,029 | Pulled up by top earners |
| 25th percentile | $72,005 | — |
| 75th percentile | $117,809 | — |
| Hourly | $45.67 | 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 mechanical engineers earn in Canada?
- The median is $90,244 a year, about $45.67 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. $90,244 converts to $63,980 at the exchange rate on 2026-07-29, and buys what $71,595 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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