Software Developer Freelance Benchmark in Canada
Certified Local Primary from a reviewed Strong national occupation mapping. This page uses official local evidence; it is not a currency-converted U.S. landing page.
Official local benchmark
CA$48.08 CAD/hour employee median → CA$84.14 CAD/hour modeled planning benchmark
TransparentRate applies the same provisional ×1.75 coefficient once and preserves the source’s native period.
Source and occupation mapping
| TransparentRate occupation | Full-Stack Developer |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Software developers and programmers (21232) |
| Mapping | strong_official_proxy — National group explicitly contains this occupation and is economically close. |
| Source agency | Employment and Social Development Canada Job Bank; underlying Statistics Canada Census/LFS sources identified per record |
| Dataset | Job Bank national wage report by NOC 2021 |
| Reference period | record-specific, principally 2021 Census and 2023-2025 LFS; revised 2025-11-19 |
| Source edition | CA-JOBBANK-NOC2021-2025-11-19-r1 |
| Release | TR-METH-2.0.0 · TR-DATA-2026-08-21.1 |
What this result means
The employee statistic describes the source population and period above. The modeled result is a planning reference, not an observed freelancer-rate distribution, guaranteed market price, personal minimum, or recommended quote.
Comparison limits
The official source statistic is preserved in its native unit.
Percent difference is directional only when the local source uses net pay, a monthly-hours assumption, a broad proxy, or a different population scope.
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