I think the "senior" web developers with less than 5 years work history seem to be earning $90K/year, which seems low.
Any thoughts?
Any thoughts?
Those jobs do exist, but they're hard to get and hard to find.
A few devs I know with >5 years experience have moved to new roles lately, and the companies didn't even hesitate when they asked for salaries well over 100k. I know it's just anecdotal, of course. Other probably have good counter-examples. but maybe it's a useful data point regardless.
Of course you start at $90-$100k as a new grad in Amazon and Google.
I expect that to change as the hiring crunch continues but right now the ceiling has been slow to budge - much slower than the lower end of the spectrum, which is pressured more with average rent in Toronto going up over 15% year over year
Canada has an exceptionally strong culture of pushing for workplace training, to the point that the OECD calls Canada the most educated nation, so when a career stands out as having good job prospects (which development has been billed that way for several years now) people flood into it, putting downward pressure on incomes unlike you find stateside where the social dynamics don't push people into those jobs the same way.
If you're doing something really unique perhaps there is still room for upward growth (although you're probably already well past $150k in that case), but generally it is unlikely that developer incomes will climb further at all.