Calgary tech salaries, 2026

Calgary's tech scene has grown fast, but its job postings rarely show pay. Here's what the government data says, labelled for what it is.

Salary figures for Calgary

For software work in Calgary, the government figures are: Job Bank median $108K, StatCan average offered wage $113K (Table 14-10-0444-01) for software engineers and designers (NOC 21231). Job Bank median $100K, StatCan average offered wage $89K (Table 14-10-0444-01) for software developers and programmers (NOC 21232). All levels, survey data, not job postings.

Government survey, Calgary. All levels, survey data, not job postings.

Occupation	Job Bank median	StatCan average offered wage
Computer and information systems managers (NOC 20012)	$142K	$143K
Data scientists (NOC 21211)	$96K	$90K
Cybersecurity specialists (NOC 21220)	$104K	$107K
Software engineers and designers (NOC 21231)	$108K	$113K
Software developers and programmers (NOC 21232)	$100K	$89K
Information systems testing technicians (NOC 22222)	$80K	$68K
Graphic designers and illustrators (NOC 52120)	$62K	$72K

Job Bank (ESDC) median wages by occupation and economic region, reference period 2023-2024, times 2,080 hours. Statistics Canada Table 14-10-0444-01, average offered hourly wage on job vacancies, 2025-07 to 2026-04 (4 quarters), times 2,080 hours. Both cover every experience level and every employer. They are not job postings and are never mixed with the posted ranges.

Cite: Phil Mosher, Canadian tech salary data, baselinetalent.xyz, data as of October 29, 2026. CC BY 4.0.

These cover every experience level and every employer, so a senior job will usually pay above them. There's no posted range for this city on purpose. The Canada-wide page has posted ranges for the country as a whole, which is a different place and a different kind of number.

Why there are no posted ranges for Calgary

Alberta doesn't require employers to put pay in job postings. Ontario has since January 1, 2026, and B.C. since November 2023.

In the October 29, 2026 data, Calgary had 13 tech postings with a stated range, from 8 employers. A cell needs 10 postings from 5 employers before it gets a number, so every Calgary cell is empty.

Those 13 are spread across every role and level, so no single role and level gets close to the minimum.

The market

• Calgary led North America in tech-talent growth: +56% from 2022 to 2025 to more than 80,000 tech workers, now 9.4% of total employment (50-market average 5.5%). CBRE ranks it 15th.
• 17.1% of Calgary workers mostly worked from home in May 2024.

Alberta has no provincial payroll health tax, which makes a hire a little cheaper for the employer than in Ontario or B.C.

Cost of living

Average 2-bedroom rent was $1,914 in October 2025, with the highest vacancy of the six cities (5.0%). Average asking rent was $1,823 in September 2026, down 3.9% year over year.

How this was built

Government figures come straight from Job Bank and Statistics Canada, with the table IDs above. Nothing is estimated or adjusted.

How every number here is built, tested and checked against government data: how the salary data is built.

If you're hiring in Calgary, posting the range puts you in a small group. 8 employers had one in the data.